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This paper presents a novel approach for denoising Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) patterns using diffusion models. We propose a two-stage training process with a UNet-based architecture, incorporating an auxiliary regression head…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Nikolay Falaleev , Nikolai Orlov

This paper presents a neural network--enhanced surrogate modeling approach for diffusion problems with spatially varying random field coefficients. The method builds on numerical homogenization, which compresses fine-scale coefficients into…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Fabian Kröpfl , Daniel Peterseim , Elisabeth Ullmann

Multi-fidelity surrogate learning is important for physical simulation related applications in that it avoids running numerical solvers from scratch, which is known to be costly, and it uses multi-fidelity examples for training and greatly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Zheng Wang , Shibo Li , Shikai Fang , Shandian Zhe

Surrogate modeling is a powerful methodology in chemical process engineering, frequently employed to accelerate optimization tasks where traditional flowsheet simulators are computationally prohibitive. However, the state-of-the-art is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Martin Bubel , Tobias Seidel , Michael Bortz

Data-driven neural networks are increasingly used as surrogate forward models in geophysics, but it remains unclear whether they recover only the data mapping or also the underlying physical sensitivity structure. Here we test this question…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ziye Yu , Yuqi Cai , Xin Liu

Substantial amounts of air-shower simulations are needed to derive the instrument response for analyzing Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) data. This process is both computationally intensive and requires repetition under varying…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Christian Elflein , Stefan Funk , Jonas Glombitza , Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman , Lark Wang

The computational intensity of detector simulation and event reconstruction poses a significant difficulty for data analysis in collider experiments. This challenge inspires the continued development of machine learning techniques to serve…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-11-22 Dmitrii Kobylianskii , Nathalie Soybelman , Nilotpal Kakati , Etienne Dreyer , Benjamin Nachman , Eilam Gross

We study whether machine-learning models for fast calorimeter simulations can learn meaningful representations of calorimeter signatures that account for variations in the full particle detector's configuration. This may open new…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-29 Johannes Erdmann , Jonas Kann , Florian Mausolf , Peter Wissmann

Denoising diffusion models have emerged as the go-to generative framework for solving inverse problems in imaging. A critical concern regarding these models is their performance on out-of-distribution tasks, which remains an under-explored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Riccardo Barbano , Alexander Denker , Hyungjin Chung , Tae Hoon Roh , Simon Arridge , Peter Maass , Bangti Jin , Jong Chul Ye

The paper describes a novel neural-network-based approach to study the distributions of secondaries produced in hadronic showers using observables provided by highly granular calorimeters. The response is analysed of the highly granular…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-12 M. Chadeeva , S. Korpachev

Existing deep learning-based surrogate models facilitate efficient data generation, but fall short in uncertainty quantification, efficient parameter space exploration, and reverse prediction. In our work, we introduce SurroFlow, a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jingyi Shen , Yuhan Duan , Han-Wei Shen

Leveraging neural networks as surrogate models for turbulence simulation is a topic of growing interest. At the same time, embodying the inherent uncertainty of simulations in the predictions of surrogate models remains very challenging.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-10 Qiang Liu , Nils Thuerey

Video-diffusion models have recently set the standard in video generation, inpainting, and domain translation thanks to their training stability and high perceptual fidelity. Building on these strengths, we repurpose conditional video…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Jaewan Park , Farid Ahmed , Kazuma Kobayashi , Seid Koric , Syed Bahauddin Alam , Iwona Jasiuk , Diab Abueidda

We introduce Diffusion Active Learning, a novel approach that combines generative diffusion modeling with data-driven sequential experimental design to adaptively acquire data for inverse problems. Although broadly applicable, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Luis Barba , Johannes Kirschner , Tomas Aidukas , Manuel Guizar-Sicairos , Benjamín Béjar

Accurate prediction of physical fields is critical in various engineering applications, including thermal management in electronic systems, airfoil shape optimization in aerospace, and flow field control in hypersonic vehicles. This study…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-12 Yuan Jia , Chi Zhang , Hao Ma , Qiao Zhang , Kai Liu , Chih-Yung Wen

Quantum denoising diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful framework for generative quantum machine learning. In this work, we extend these models by introducing a conditioning mechanism that enables the generation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Daniel Quinn , Lorenzo Buffoni , Stefano Gherardini , Gabriele De Chiara

This paper develops a surrogate model refinement approach for the simulation of dynamical systems and the solution of optimization problems governed by dynamical systems in which surrogates replace expensive-to-compute state- and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Jonathan R. Cangelosi , Matthias Heinkenschloss

Diffusion models have shown remarkable progress in various generative tasks such as image and video generation. This paper studies the problem of leveraging pretrained diffusion models for performing discriminative tasks. Specifically, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yinqi Li , Hong Chang , Ruibing Hou , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Recently, surrogate models based on deep learning have attracted much attention for engineering analysis and optimization. As the construction of data pairs in most engineering problems is time-consuming, data acquisition is becoming the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Xiaoyu Zhao , Zhiqiang Gong , Yunyang Zhang , Wen Yao , Xiaoqian Chen

Denoising diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful class of generative models. They provide state-of-the-art results, not only for unconditional simulation, but also when used to solve conditional simulation problems arising in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-28 Yuyang Shi , Valentin De Bortoli , George Deligiannidis , Arnaud Doucet