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Accurate prediction of machining deformation in structural components is essential for ensuring dimensional precision and reliability. Such deformation often originates from residual stress fields, whose distribution and influence vary…

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Fourier neural operators (FNOs) can learn highly nonlinear mappings between function spaces, and have recently become a popular tool for learning responses of complex physical systems. However, to achieve good accuracy and efficiency, FNOs…

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Shape-programmed sheets morph from one surface into another upon activation by stimuli such as illumination, and have attracted much interest for their potential engineering applications, especially in soft robotics. Complex shape changes…

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This paper introduces the Kernel Neural Operator (KNO), a provably convergent operator-learning architecture that utilizes compositions of deep kernel-based integral operators for function-space approximation of operators (maps from…

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For partial differential equations on domains of arbitrary shapes, existing works of neural operators attempt to learn a mapping from geometries to solutions. It often requires a large dataset of geometry-solution pairs in order to obtain a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Ze Cheng , Zhongkai Hao , Xiaoqiang Wang , Jianing Huang , Youjia Wu , Xudan Liu , Yiru Zhao , Songming Liu , Hang Su

Soft robots have proven to outperform traditional robots in applications related to propagation in geometrically constrained environments. Designing these robots and their controllers is an intricate task, since their building materials…

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Mathematical morphology is a theory and technique to collect features like geometric and topological structures in digital images. Given a target image, determining suitable morphological operations and structuring elements is a cumbersome…

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Shape-morphing metamaterials enable adaptive structures capable of complex functional deformations, with applications ranging from reconfigurable structures and soft robotics to medical devices. However, their design remains challenging due…

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Scientific machine learning has seen significant progress with the emergence of operator learning. However, existing methods encounter difficulties when applied to problems on unstructured grids and irregular domains. Spatial graph neural…

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Tomographic imaging reveals internal structures of 3D objects and is crucial for medical diagnoses. Visualizing the morphology and appearance of non-planar sparse anatomical structures that extend over multiple 2D slices in tomographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Leonhard Rist , Pluvio Stephan , Noah Maul , Linda Vorberg , Hendrik Ditt , Michael Sühling , Andreas Maier , Bernhard Egger , Oliver Taubmann

Robotic manipulation of slender objects is challenging, especially when the induced deformations are large and nonlinear. Traditionally, learning-based control approaches, such as imitation learning, have been used to address deformable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Andrew Choi , Dezhong Tong , Demetri Terzopoulos , Jungseock Joo , M. Khalid Jawed

Neural surfaces (e.g., neural map encoding, deep implicits and neural radiance fields) have recently gained popularity because of their generic structure (e.g., multi-layer perceptron) and easy integration with modern learning-based setups.…

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Learning maps between function spaces with a strong inductive bias is a central challenge in soft computing, especially when training data are scarce and standard deep architectures overfit. We introduce a \emph{neural integral operator}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Emanuele Zappala , Alice Giola , Andreas Kramer , Saugat Acharya , Enrico Greco

We present S2P-Net (Spectral-Spatial Polar Network), a compact deep learning architecture that achieves mathematically guaranteed rotation invariance without data augmentation. In this Paper, we also made a comparison to other neural…

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Solving cell problems in homogenization is hard, and available deep-learning frameworks fail to match the speed and generality of traditional computational frameworks. More to the point, it is generally unclear what to expect of…

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Active soft bodies can affect their shape through an internal actuation mechanism that induces a deformation. Similar to recent work, this paper utilizes a differentiable, quasi-static, and physics-based simulation layer to optimize for…

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Morphological methods play a crucial role in remote sensing image processing, due to their ability to capture and preserve small structural details. However, most of the existing deep learning models for semantic segmentation are based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jun Xie , Wenxiao Li , Faqiang Wang , Liqiang Zhang , Zhengyang Hou , Jun Liu

Deployable structures, essential across various engineering applications ranging from umbrellas to satellites, are evolving to include soft, morphable designs where geometry drives transformation. However, a major challenge for soft…

As humans, we regularly associate shape of an object with its built material. In the context of geometric modeling, however, this interrelation between form and material is rarely explored. In this work, we propose a novel data-driven…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Yong-Liang Yang , Jun Wang , Niloy J. Mitra

The interaction of neural networks with physical equations offers a wide range of applications. We provide a method which enables a neural network to transform objects subject to given physical constraints. Therefore an U-Net architecture…

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