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Windstorms significantly impact the UK, causing extensive damage to property, disrupting society, and potentially resulting in loss of life. Accurate modelling and understanding of such events are essential for effective risk assessment and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 Etron Yee Chun Tsoi

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a major sub-field of engineering. Corresponding flow simulations are typically characterized by heavy computational resource requirements. Often, very fine and complex meshes are required to resolve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Keefe Huang , Moritz Krügener , Alistair Brown , Friedrich Menhorn , Hans-Joachim Bungartz , Dirk Hartmann

Autonomous driving requires an understanding of the static environment from sensor data. Learned Bird's-Eye View (BEV) encoders are commonly used to fuse multiple inputs, and a vector decoder predicts a vectorized map representation from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Thomas Monninger , Zihan Zhang , Zhipeng Mo , Md Zafar Anwar , Steffen Staab , Sihao Ding

Generative modeling is typically framed as learning mapping rules, but from an observer's perspective without access to these rules, the task becomes disentangling the geometric support from the probability distribution. We propose that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-04 Rui Tong

Design decisions in urban planning have to be made with particular carefulness as the resulting constraints are binding for the whole architectural design that follows. In this context, investigating and optimizing the airflow in urban…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Daoming Liu , Florian Rist , Helmut Pottmann , Dominik Michels

Simulation of urban wind environments is crucial for urban planning, pollution control, and renewable energy utilization. However, the computational requirements of high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods make them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Cheng Chen , Geng Tian , Shaoxiang Qin , Senwen Yang , Dingyang Geng , Dongxue Zhan , Jinqiu Yang , David Vidal , Liangzhu Leon Wang

Generating unbounded 3D scenes is crucial for large-scale scene understanding and simulation. Urban scenes, unlike natural landscapes, consist of various complex man-made objects and structures such as roads, traffic signs, vehicles, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Junge Zhang , Qihang Zhang , Li Zhang , Ramana Rao Kompella , Gaowen Liu , Bolei Zhou

In this work, we look at Score-based generative models (also called diffusion generative models) from a geometric perspective. From a new view point, we prove that both the forward and backward process of adding noise and generating from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Sandesh Ghimire , Jinyang Liu , Armand Comas , Davin Hill , Aria Masoomi , Octavia Camps , Jennifer Dy

The Origin-Destination~(OD) networks provide an estimation of the flow of people from every region to others in the city, which is an important research topic in transportation, urban simulation, etc. Given structural regional urban…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Can Rong , Jingtao Ding , Zhicheng Liu , Yong Li

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

The state of the art for physical hazard prediction from weather and climate requires expensive km-scale numerical simulations driven by coarser resolution global inputs. Here, a generative diffusion architecture is explored for downscaling…

Air flow modeling at a local scale is essential for applications such as pollutant dispersion modeling or wind farm modeling. To circumvent costly Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) computations, deep learning surrogate models have recently…

Turbulence is a complex phenomenon that has a chaotic nature with multiple spatio-temporal scales, making predictions of turbulent flows a challenging topic. Nowadays, an abundance of high-fidelity databases can be generated by experimental…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-12 Mustafa Z. Yousif , Linqi Yu , Sergio Hoyas , Ricardo Vinuesa , HeeChang Lim

Time-evolving traffic flow forecasting are playing a vital role in intelligent transportation systems and smart cities. However, the dynamic traffic flow forecasting is a highly nonlinear problem with complex temporal-spatial dependencies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhenan Lin , Yuni Lai , Wai Lun Lo , Richard Tai-Chiu Hsung , Harris Sik-Ho Tsang , Xiaoyu Xue , Kai Zhou , Yulin Zhu

Denoising-based models, including diffusion and flow matching, have led to substantial advances in graph generation. Despite this progress, such models remain constrained by two fundamental limitations: a computational cost that scales…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yoann Boget , Pablo Strasser , Alexandros Kalousis

The construction of a building inevitably changes the microclimate in its vicinity. Many city authorities request comprehensive wind studies before granting a building permit, which can be obtained by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Trond-Ola Hågbo , Knut Erik Teigen Giljarhus , Bjørn Helge Hjertager

Due to costs and practical constraints, field campaigns in the atmospheric boundary layer typically only measure a fraction of the atmospheric volume of interest. Machine learning techniques have previously successfully reconstructed…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Alex Rybchuk , Malik Hassanaly , Nicholas Hamilton , Paula Doubrawa , Mitchell J. Fulton , Luis A. Martínez-Tossas

Mesh models have become increasingly accessible for numerous cities; however, the lack of realistic textures restricts their application in virtual urban navigation and autonomous driving. To address this, this paper proposes MeSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Xuyang Chen , Zhijun Zhai , Kaixuan Zhou , Zengmao Wang , Jianan He , Dong Wang , Yanfeng Zhang , mingwei Sun , Rüdiger Westermann , Konrad Schindler , Liqiu Meng

Modern generative modeling methods have demonstrated strong performance in learning complex data distributions from clean samples. In many scientific and imaging applications, however, clean samples are unavailable, and only noisy or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Willem Diepeveen , Oscar Leong

Graph generative models are essential across diverse scientific domains by capturing complex distributions over relational data. Among them, graph diffusion models achieve superior performance but face inefficient sampling and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yiming Qin , Manuel Madeira , Dorina Thanou , Pascal Frossard