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Realizing general inverse design could greatly accelerate the discovery of new materials with user-defined properties. However, state-of-the-art generative models tend to be limited to a specific composition or crystal structure. Herein, we…

The inverse approach is computationally efficient in aerodynamic design as the desired target performance distribution is prespecified. However, it has some significant limitations that prevent it from achieving full efficiency. First, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Sunwoong Yang , Sanga Lee , Kwanjung Yee

With the increasing integration of intelligent driving functions into serial-produced vehicles, ensuring their functionality and robustness poses greater challenges. Compared to traditional road testing, scenario-based virtual testing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Li Li , Tobias Brinkmann , Till Temmen , Markus Eisenbarth , Jakob Andert

The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a powerful framework for learning probabilistic latent variable generative models. However, typical assumptions on the approximate posterior distribution of the encoder and/or the prior, seriously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Ifigeneia Apostolopoulou , Elan Rosenfeld , Artur Dubrawski

Variational AutoEncoders (VAEs) are powerful generative models that merge elements from statistics and information theory with the flexibility offered by deep neural networks to efficiently solve the generation problem for high dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 A. Asperti , D. Evangelista , E. Loli Piccolomini

Existing image generation models face critical challenges regarding the trade-off between computation and fidelity. Specifically, models relying on a pretrained Variational Autoencoder (VAE) suffer from information loss, limited detail, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Chenrui Ma , Xi Xiao , Tianyang Wang , Xiao Wang , Yanning Shen

Sequential recommendation as an emerging topic has attracted increasing attention due to its important practical significance. Models based on deep learning and attention mechanism have achieved good performance in sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Zhe Xie , Chengxuan Liu , Yichi Zhang , Hongtao Lu , Dong Wang , Yue Ding

Graphic design is ubiquitous in people's daily lives. For graphic design, the most time-consuming task is laying out various components in the interface. Repetitive manual layout design will waste a lot of time for professional graphic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Mengxi Guo , Dangqing Huang , Xiaodong Xie

We investigate the construction of generative models capable of encoding physical constraints that can be hard to express explicitly. For the problem of inverse material design, where one seeks to design a material with a prescribed set of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-17 Khalid El-Awady

Variational Autoencoder (VAE) and its variations are classic generative models by learning a low-dimensional latent representation to satisfy some prior distribution (e.g., Gaussian distribution). Their advantages over GAN are that they can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Cong Geng , Jia Wang , Li Chen , Zhiyong Gao

Recent state-of-the-art autoencoder based generative models have an encoder-decoder structure and learn a latent representation with a pre-defined distribution that can be sampled from. Implementing the encoder networks of these models in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 D. T. Braithwaite , M. O'Connor , W. B. Kleijn

This work aims at developing new methodologies to optimize computational costly complex systems (e.g., aeronautical engineering systems). The proposed surrogate-based method (often called Bayesian optimization) uses adaptive sampling to…

Modern generative models are usually designed to match target distributions directly in the data space, where the intrinsic dimension of data can be much lower than the ambient dimension. We argue that this discrepancy may contribute to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Zijun Zhang , Ruixiang Zhang , Zongpeng Li , Yoshua Bengio , Liam Paull

Variational Convertor-Encoder (VCE) converts an image to various styles; we present this novel architecture for the problem of one-shot generalization and its transfer to new tasks not seen before without additional training. We also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Chengshuai Li , Shuai Han , Jianping Xing

Engineering design optimization requires an efficient combination of a 3D shape representation, an optimization algorithm, and a design performance evaluation method, which is often computationally expensive. We present a prompt evolution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Melvin Wong , Thiago Rios , Stefan Menzel , Yew Soon Ong

Metamaterials are emerging as a new paradigmatic material system to render unprecedented and tailorable properties for a wide variety of engineering applications. However, the inverse design of metamaterial and its multiscale system is…

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The ultimate aim of the study is to explore the inverse design of porous metamaterials using a deep learning-based generative framework. Specifically, we develop a property-variational autoencoder (pVAE), a variational autoencoder (VAE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Phu Thien Nguyen , Yousef Heider , Dennis M. Kochmann , Fadi Aldakheel

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are widely used deep generative models capable of learning unsupervised latent representations of data. Such representations are often difficult to interpret or control. We consider the problem of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Jack Klys , Jake Snell , Richard Zemel

In this study, an image-assisted Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) parameter inverse method is proposed to identify the design parameters. In the proposed method, the images are mapped to a low-dimensional latent space by Variational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Jiaquan Wang , Yang Zeng , Xinchao Jiang , Hu Wang , Enying Li , Guangyao Li

This paper presents a deep generative modeling framework for controllably synthesizing implied volatility surfaces (IVSs) using a variational autoencoder (VAE). Unlike conventional data-driven models, our approach provides explicit control…

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