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Figuring out the right airfoil is a crucial step in the preliminary stage of any aerial vehicle design, as its shape directly affects the overall aerodynamic characteristics of the aircraft or rotorcraft. Besides being a measure of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-14 Hassan Moin , Hafiz Zeeshan Iqbal Khan , Surrayya Mobeen , Jamshed Riaz

Shape optimization has been playing an important role in a large variety of engineering applications. Existing shape optimization methods are generally mesh-dependent and therefore encounter challenges due to mesh deformation. To overcome…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Xili Wang , Pengfei Yin , Bo Zhang , Chao Yang

Aerodynamic design optimization is an important problem in aircraft design that depends on the interplay between a numerical optimizer and a high-fidelity flow physics solver. Derivative-based, first and (quasi) second order, optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Punya Plaban , Peter Bachman , Ashwin Renganathan

A fundamental challenge in the design of photonic devices, and electromagnetic structures more generally, is the optimization of their overall architecture to achieve a desired response. To this end, topology or shape optimizers based on…

The diffusion model has shown success in generating high-quality and diverse solutions to trajectory optimization problems. However, diffusion models with neural networks inevitably make prediction errors, which leads to constraint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Anjian Li , Zihan Ding , Adji Bousso Dieng , Ryne Beeson

This study demonstrates how the adjoint-based framework traditionally used to compute gradients in PDE optimization problems can be extended to handle general constraints on the state variables. This is accomplished by constructing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Pritpal Matharu , Bartosz Protas

Shape optimization is of great significance in structural engineering, as an efficient geometry leads to better performance of structures. However, the application of gradient-based shape optimization for structural and architectural design…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Gaoyuan Wu

Reward fine-tuning has become a common approach for aligning pretrained diffusion and flow models with human preferences in text-to-image generation. Among reward-gradient-based methods, Adjoint Matching (AM) provides a principled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jeongwoo Shin , Dongsoo Shin , Yuchen Zhu , Wei Guo , Yongxin Chen , Joonseok Lee , Jaewoong Choi , Jaemoo Choi

This study presents a generative optimization framework that builds on a fine-tuned diffusion model and reward-directed sampling to generate high-performance engineering designs. The framework adopts a parametric representation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hadi Keramati , Patrick Kirchen , Mohammed Hannan , Rajeev K. Jaiman

Recent advances in diffusion models show promising potential to accelerate nonconvex problem solving by leveraging their multimodality. However, most existing diffusion-based optimization approaches rely on supervised learning and lack a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Shutong Ding , Yimiao Zhou , Ke Hu , Xi Yao , Junchi Yan , Xiaoying Tang , Ye Shi

Diffusion model, the state-of-the-art generative machine learning architecture, has shown promising results airfoil inverse designs. In this study, we implemented and trained a series of diffusion models on three different airfoil geometry…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-26 Yingfan Geng , Jinhong Wang , Teng Cao

Accurate machine-learning models for aerodynamic prediction are essential for accelerating shape optimization, yet remain challenging to develop for complex three-dimensional configurations due to the high cost of generating training data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yunjia Yang , Babak Gholami , Caglar Gurbuz , Mohammad Rashed , Nils Thuerey

Recently, diffusion models have been used to solve various inverse problems in an unsupervised manner with appropriate modifications to the sampling process. However, the current solvers, which recursively apply a reverse diffusion step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hyungjin Chung , Byeongsu Sim , Dohoon Ryu , Jong Chul Ye

This work focuses on numerically solving a shape identification problem related to advection-diffusion processes with space-dependent coefficients using shape optimization techniques. Two boundary-type cost functionals are considered, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Elmehdi Cherrat , Lekbir Afraites , Julius Fergy Tiongson Rabago

Many real-world machine learning tasks require outputs that satisfy hard constraints, such as physical conservation laws, structured dependencies in graphs, or column-level relationships in tabular data. Existing approaches rely either on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Pantelis Dogoulis , Fabien Bernier , Félix Fourreau , Karim Tit , Maxime Cordy

Gradient-based inverse design in photonics has already achieved remarkable results in designing small-footprint, high-performance optical devices. The adjoint variable method, which allows for the efficient computation of gradients, has…

In general, standard necessary optimality conditions cannot be formulated in a straightforward manner for semi-smooth shape optimization problems. In this paper, we consider shape optimization problems constrained by variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Daniel Luft , Volker H. Schulz , Kathrin Welker

For a given {\it misfit function}, a specified optimality measure of a model, its gradient describes the manner in which one may alter properties of the system to march towards a stationary point. The adjoint method, arising from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shravan Hanasoge , Aaron Birch , Laurent Gizon , Jeroen Tromp

Airfoil shape design is a classical problem in engineering and manufacturing. In this work, we combine principled physics-based considerations for the shape design problem with modern computational techniques using a data-driven approach.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Zachary Grey , Olga Doronina , Andrew Glaws

Aerodynamic inverse design can improve vehicle and aircraft efficiency, but practical design rarely seeks performance alone: vehicle refinement must reduce drag while preserving visual features linked to design language, brand recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Huaguan Chen , Ning Lin , Luxi Chen , Jiacheng Cen , Rui Zhang , Wenbing Huang , Chongxuan Li , Hao Sun