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Inverse problems are ubiquitous in nature, arising in almost all areas of science and engineering ranging from geophysics and climate science to astrophysics and biomechanics. One of the central challenges in solving inverse problems is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-21 Dhruv V Patel , Deep Ray , Assad A Oberai

This paper is concerned with the development, analysis and numerical realization of a novel variational model for the regularization of inverse problems in imaging. The proposed model is inspired by the architecture of generative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Andreas Habring , Martin Holler

Undirected graphical models are compact representations of joint probability distributions over random variables. To solve inference tasks of interest, graphical models of arbitrary topology can be trained using empirical risk minimization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Adarsh K. Jeewajee , Leslie P. Kaelbling

A framework for robust optimization under uncertainty based on the use of the generalized inverse distribution function (GIDF), also called quantile function, is here proposed. Compared to more classical approaches that rely on the usage of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-18 Domenico Quagliarella , Giovanni Petrone , Gianluca Iaccarino

This study introduces a generative imputation model leveraging graph attention networks and tabular diffusion models for completing missing parametric data in engineering designs. This model functions as an AI design co-pilot, providing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Rui Zhou , Chenyang Yuan , Frank Permenter , Yanxia Zhang , Nikos Arechiga , Matt Klenk , Faez Ahmed

Finite element simulations are run by package design engineers to model design structures. The process is irreversible meaning every minute structural adjustment requires a fresh input parameter run. In this paper, the problem of modeling…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Kart-Leong Lim , Rahul Dutta , Mihai Rotaru

The ability to readily design novel materials with chosen functional properties on-demand represents a next frontier in materials discovery. However, thoroughly and efficiently sampling the entire design space in a computationally tractable…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-08 Victor Fung , Jiaxin Zhang , Guoxiang Hu , P. Ganesh , Bobby G. Sumpter

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…

Deep Generative Machine Learning Models (DGMs) have been growing in popularity across the design community thanks to their ability to learn and mimic complex data distributions. DGMs are conventionally trained to minimize statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Lyle Regenwetter , Faez Ahmed

We consider a class of inverse problems characterized by forward operators that are partially specified, non-smooth, and non-differentiable. Although generative inverse solvers have made significant progress, we find that these forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sattwik Basu , Chaitanya Amballa , Zhongweiyang Xu , Jorge Vančo Sampedro , Srihari Nelakuditi , Romit Roy Choudhury

Programmable structures are systems whose undeformed geometries and material property distributions are deliberately designed to achieve prescribed deformed configurations under specific loading conditions. Inflatable structures are a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Sara Karimi , Nikolaos N. Vlassis

Inverse design is a central goal in much of science and engineering, including frequency-selective surfaces (FSS) that are critical to microelectronics for telecommunications and optical metamaterials. Traditional surrogate-assisted…

The goal of inverse design in distributed circuits is to generate near-optimal designs that meet a desirable transfer function specification. Existing design exploration methods use some combination of strategies involving artificial grids,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Jiayu Li , Masood Mortazavi , Ning Yan , Yihong Ma , Reza Zafarani

Interconnected complex systems usually undergo disruptions due to internal uncertainties and external negative impacts such as those caused by harsh operating environments or regional natural disaster events. To maintain the operation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jiaxin Wu , Pingfeng Wang

Inverse problems consist in reconstructing signals from incomplete sets of measurements and their performance is highly dependent on the quality of the prior knowledge encoded via regularization. While traditional approaches focus on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-04 Antonio Montanaro , Diego Valsesia , Enrico Magli

We consider robust optimal experimental design (ROED) for nonlinear Bayesian inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). An optimal design is one that maximizes some utility quantifying the quality of the solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Abhijit Chowdhary , Ahmed Attia , Alen Alexanderian

Deep generative models, such as diffusion models, GANs, and IMLE, have shown impressive capability in tackling inverse problems. However, the validity of model-generated solutions w.r.t. the forward problem and the reliability of associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Shichong Peng , Alireza Moazeni , Ke Li

Materials discovery is decisive for tackling urgent challenges related to energy, the environment, health care and many others. In chemistry, conventional methodologies for innovation usually rely on expensive and incremental strategies to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Daniel Schwalbe-Koda , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

Designing frictional interfaces to exhibit prescribed macroscopic behavior is a challenging inverse problem, made difficult by the non-uniqueness of solutions and the computational cost of contact simulations. Traditional approaches rely on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-07 Valentin Mouton , Adrien Mélot

The accelerated inverse design of complex material properties - such as identifying a material with a given stress-strain response over a nonlinear deformation path - holds great potential for addressing challenges from soft robotics to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jan-Hendrik Bastek , Dennis M. Kochmann