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Topology optimization is computationally demanding that requires the assembly and solution to a finite element problem for each material distribution hypothesis. As a complementary alternative to the traditional physics-based topology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Saurabh Banga , Harsh Gehani , Sanket Bhilare , Sagar Patel , Levent Kara

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are the foundation of the Internet of Things (IoT), and in the era of the fifth generation of wireless communication networks, they are envisioned to be truly ubiquitous, reliable, scalable, and energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-01 Xiangyue Meng , Hazer Inaltekin , Brian Krongold

Mesh-based Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently shown capabilities to simulate complex multiphysics problems with accelerated performance times. However, mesh-based GNNs require a large number of message-passing (MP) steps and suffer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Roberto Perera , Vinamra Agrawal

We propose Alternating Phase-Field Fourier Neural Networks (APF-FNNs) as a unified and physics-based framework for topology optimization. The approach decouples the design problem by representing the state, adjoint, and topology fields with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Jing Li , Xindi Hu , Helin Gong , Wei Gong , Shengfeng Zhu

This paper introduces an adaptive convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture capable of automating various topology optimization (TO) problems with diverse underlying physics. The proposed architecture has an encoder-decoder-type…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Khaish Singh Chadha , Prabhat Kumar

Topology optimization (TO) can be viewed as seeking an optimal solution in the design space of a given TO problem. For weakly non-linear TO problems, e.g., compliance minimization, sensitivity-based methods typically converge well, whereas…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Ziliang Wang , Jiahua Wu , Jun Yang , Shintaro Yamasaki

This paper proposes a deep Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) with strong generalization ability for structural topology optimization. The architecture of the neural network is made up of encoding and decoding parts, which provide down- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Yiquan Zhang , Bo Peng , Xiaoyi Zhou , Cheng Xiang , Dalei Wang

Gaussian processes (GPs) are ubiquitous tools for modeling and predicting continuous processes in physical and engineering sciences. This is partly due to the fact that one may employ a Gaussian process as an interpolator while facilitating…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-16 D. Andrew Brown , Peter Kiessler , John Nicholson

Recent advances in molecular representation learning have produced highly effective encodings of molecules for numerous cheminformatics and bioinformatics tasks. However, extracting general chemical insight while balancing predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Rahul Khorana

In this paper, we investigate the decentralized statistical inference problem, where a network of agents cooperatively recover a (structured) vector from private noisy samples without centralized coordination. Existing optimization-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 He Wang , Yifei Shen , Ziyuan Wang , Dongsheng Li , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief , Jie Lu

Despite the stride made by machine learning (ML) based performance modeling, two major concerns that may impede production-ready ML applications in EDA are stringent accuracy requirements and generalization capability. To this end, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Nan Wu , Jiwon Lee , Yuan Xie , Cong Hao

Topology design optimization offers tremendous opportunity in design and manufacturing freedoms by designing and producing a part from the ground-up without a meaningful initial design as required by conventional shape design optimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-10 Sharad Rawat , M. H. Herman Shen

We propose an end-to-end framework based on a Graph Neural Network (GNN) to balance the power flows in energy grids. The balancing is framed as a supervised vertex regression task, where the GNN is trained to predict the current and power…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Jonas Berg Hansen , Stian Normann Anfinsen , Filippo Maria Bianchi

Programming by demonstration has recently gained much attention due to its user-friendly and natural way to transfer human skills to robots. In order to facilitate the learning of multiple demonstrations and meanwhile generalize to new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Yanlong Huang , João Silvério , Leonel Rozo , Darwin G. Caldwell

Topology optimization (TO) is a well-established methodology for structural design under user-defined constraints, e.g. minimum volume and maximum stiffness. However, such methods have traditionally been applied to static, deterministic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Luis Irastorza-Valera , Luis Saucedo-Mora

In the past decade, deep neural networks (DNNs) came to the fore as the leading machine learning algorithms for a variety of tasks. Their raise was founded on market needs and engineering craftsmanship, the latter based more on trial and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Omry Cohen , Or Malka , Zohar Ringel

Gaussian Processes (GPs) are widely seen as the state-of-the-art surrogate models for Bayesian optimization (BO) due to their ability to model uncertainty and their performance on tasks where correlations are easily captured (such as those…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Paul Brunzema , Mikkel Jordahn , John Willes , Sebastian Trimpe , Jasper Snoek , James Harrison

We propose conditioning field initialization for neural network based topology optimization. In this work, we focus on (1) improving upon existing neural network based topology optimization, (2) demonstrating that by using a prior initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Hongrui Chen , Aditya Joglekar , Levent Burak Kara

Bayesian optimization (BO) has become a popular strategy for global optimization of expensive real-world functions. Contrary to a common expectation that BO is suited to optimizing black-box functions, it actually requires domain knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zi Wang , George E. Dahl , Kevin Swersky , Chansoo Lee , Zachary Nado , Justin Gilmer , Jasper Snoek , Zoubin Ghahramani

A variety of infinitely wide neural architectures (e.g., dense NNs, CNNs, and transformers) induce Gaussian process (GP) priors over their outputs. These relationships provide both an accurate characterization of the prior predictive…