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The mechanical properties of metallic nanostructures are governed not only by topology but also by crystal symmetry and face-specific surface physics, which are typically absent from continuum topology optimization. We develop an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Chun-Teh Chen , Denvid Lau

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

Learning a graph topology to reveal the underlying relationship between data entities plays an important role in various machine learning and data analysis tasks. Under the assumption that structured data vary smoothly over a graph, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-23 Xingyue Pu , Tianyue Cao , Xiaoyun Zhang , Xiaowen Dong , Siheng Chen

An important new trend in additive manufacturing is the use of optimization to automatically design industrial objects, such as beams, rudders or wings. Topology optimization, as it is often called, computes the best configuration of…

Topology optimization (TO) in two dimensions often presents a trade-off between structural performance and manufacturability, with unpenalized (variable-thickness) methods yielding superior but complex designs, and penalized (SIMP) methods…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Gabriel Stankiewicz , Chaitanya Dev , Paul Steinmann

Topology optimization (TO) is a common technique used in free-form designs. However, conventional TO-based design approaches suffer from high computational cost due to the need for repetitive forward calculations and/or sensitivity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Chao Qian , Wenjing Ye

Reliability-based topology optimization (RBTO) requires repeated estimation of small failure probabilities and their gradients, making conventional nested Monte Carlo approaches computationally prohibitive for large scale structural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Maryam Maghazeh , Ayyappan Unnikrishna Pillai , Mohammad Masiur Rahaman , Subhayan De

One of the challenges practitioners face when applying structure learning algorithms to their data involves determining a set of hyperparameters; otherwise, a set of hyperparameter defaults is assumed. The optimal hyperparameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Kiattikun Chobtham , Anthony C. Constantinou

In this paper, we present Neural Adaptive Tomography (NeAT), the first adaptive, hierarchical neural rendering pipeline for multi-view inverse rendering. Through a combination of neural features with an adaptive explicit representation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Darius Rückert , Yuanhao Wang , Rui Li , Ramzi Idoughi , Wolfgang Heidrich

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

Adversarial training and its many variants substantially improve deep network robustness, yet at the cost of compromising standard accuracy. Moreover, the training process is heavy and hence it becomes impractical to thoroughly explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Haotao Wang , Tianlong Chen , Shupeng Gui , Ting-Kuei Hu , Ji Liu , Zhangyang Wang

In this paper, we present a topology optimization (TO) framework to enable automated design of mechanical components while ensuring the result can be manufactured using multi-axis machining. Although TO improves the part's performance, the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Amir M. Mirzendehdel , Morad Behandish , Saigopal Nelaturi

We propose a new algorithm for the design of topologically optimized lightweight structures, under a minimum compliance requirement. The new process enhances a standard level set formulation in terms of computational efficiency, thanks to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Davide Cortellessa , Nicola Ferro , Simona Perotto , Stefano Micheletti

Topology optimization is a powerful tool utilized in various fields for structural design. However, its application has primarily been restricted to static or passively moving objects, mainly focusing on hard materials with limited…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Changyoung Yuhn , Yuki Sato , Hiroki Kobayashi , Atsushi Kawamoto , Tsuyoshi Nomura

Inverse scattering in optical coherence tomography (OCT) seeks to recover both structural images and intrinsic tissue optical properties, including refractive index, scattering coefficient, and anisotropy. This inverse problem is…

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Neuro-symbolic reasoning systems face fundamental challenges in maintaining semantic coherence while satisfying physical and logical constraints. Building upon our previous work on Ontology Neural Networks, we present an enhanced framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jaehong Oh

This work presents a novel algorithm for progressively adapting neural network architecture along the depth. In particular, we attempt to address the following questions in a mathematically principled way: i) Where to add a new capacity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 C G Krishnanunni , Tan Bui-Thanh , Clint Dawson

Retinal fundus photography enhancement is important for diagnosing and monitoring retinal diseases. However, early approaches to retinal image enhancement, such as those based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), often struggle to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Xuanzhao Dong , Wenhui Zhu , Xin Li , Guoxin Sun , Yi Su , Oana M. Dumitrascu , Yalin Wang

In this paper, we investigate optimization problems with nonnegative and orthogonal constraints, where any feasible matrix of size $n \times p$ exhibits a sparsity pattern such that each row accommodates at most one nonzero entry. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Lei Wang , Xin Liu , Xiaojun Chen

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