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The utility of machine learning (ML) techniques in materials science has accelerated materials design and discovery. However, the accuracy of ML models - particularly deep neural networks - heavily relies on the quality and quantity of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-25 Marzie Ghorbani , Zhipeng Li , Nick Birbilis

Optimization of metasurface designs for specific functionality is a challenging problem due to the intricate relation between structural features and electromagnetic responses. Recently, many researchers resolved to inverse design of…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-08 Sreeraj Rajan Warrier , Jayasri Dontabhaktuni

Image inpainting is a restoration method that reconstructs missing image parts. However, a carefully selected mask of known pixels that yield a high quality inpainting can also act as a sparse image representation. This challenging spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-05 Pascal Peter

Simulation-based optimization is a useful method for practical design problems. However, it is difficult for complicated problems due to expensive-computational costs. A popular way to overcome this issue is to use a surrogate model to save…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-11 Yu Li , Hu Wang , Ziming Wen , Xin Wang

Federated learning faces significant challenges in scenarios with heterogeneous data distributions and adverse network conditions, such as delays, packet loss, and data poisoning attacks. This paper proposes a novel method based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Mohammad Ghabel Rahmat , Majid Khalilian

This paper aims to introduce a new statistical learning technique based on sparsity promoting for data-driven modeling and control of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. Compared with conventional sparse regression techniques that might…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Zhongtian Zhang , Javad Khazaei , Rick S. Blum

A key challenge in metasurface design is the development of algorithms that can effectively and efficiently produce high performance devices. Design methods based on iterative optimization can push the performance limits of metasurfaces,…

A common task in inverse problems and imaging is finding a solution that is sparse, in the sense that most of its components vanish. In the framework of compressed sensing, general results guaranteeing exact recovery have been proven. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Monica Pragliola , Daniela Calvetti , Erkki Somersalo

The design process of centrifugal compressors requires applying an optimization process which is computationally expensive due to complex analytical equations underlying the compressor's dynamical equations. Although the regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Shadi Ghiasi , Guido Pazzi , Concettina Del Grosso , Giovanni De Magistris , Giacomo Veneri

Metasurfaces are an emerging technology that may supplant many of the conventional optics found in imaging devices, displays, and precision scientific instruments. Here, we develop a method for designing optical systems composed of multiple…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-23 Adam S. Backer

Machine Learning, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), has revolutionised Super-Resolution (SR). However, generated images often lack physical meaningfulness, which is essential for scientific applications. Our approach,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Md Rakibul Hasan , Pouria Behnoudfar , Dan MacKinlay , Thomas Poulet

This work introduces the application of the Orthogonal Procrustes problem to the generation of synthetic data. The proposed methodology ensures that the resulting synthetic data preserves important statistical relationships among features,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-06 Oussama Ounissi , Nicklas Jävergård , Adrian Muntean

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have proven effective in modeling distributions of high-dimensional data. However, their training instability is a well-known hindrance to convergence, which results in practical challenges in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Alessandro Ferrero , Shireen Elhabian , Ross Whitaker

Machine learning-based compact models provide a rapid and efficient approach for estimating device behavior across multiple input parameter variations. In this study, we introduce two reverse-design algorithms that utilize these compact…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Diego Ferrer , Jack Hutchins , Revanth Koduru , Sumeet Kumar Gupta , Admedullah Aziz

Deep learning has emerged as a key tool for designing nanophotonic structures that manipulate light at sub-wavelength scales. We investigate how to inversely design plasmonic nanostructures using conditional generative adversarial networks.…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-21 Petter Persson , Nils Henriksson , Nicolò Maccaferri

The transition to green energy grids depends on detailed wind and solar forecasts to optimize the siting and scheduling of renewable energy generation. Operational forecasts from numerical weather prediction models, however, only have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Rupa Kurinchi-Vendhan , Björn Lütjens , Ritwik Gupta , Lucien Werner , Dava Newman

The complex and computationally expensive nature of landscape evolution models pose significant challenges in the inference and optimisation of unknown parameters. Bayesian inference provides a methodology for estimation and uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-30 Rohitash Chandra , Danial Azam , Arpit Kapoor , R. Dietmar Müller

Recent advances in meta-optics have enabled diverse functionalities in compact optical devices; however, conventional forward design approaches become inadequate as device complexity and scale grow. Inverse design offers a powerful…

The traditional approach of hand-crafting priors (such as sparsity) for solving inverse problems is slowly being replaced by the use of richer learned priors (such as those modeled by generative adversarial networks, or GANs). In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Chinmay Hegde

There remains an important need for the development of image reconstruction methods that can produce diagnostically useful images from undersampled measurements. In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), for example, such methods can facilitate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-28 Varun A. Kelkar , Sayantan Bhadra , Mark A. Anastasio