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In this work we propose a deep neural network based surrogate model for a plasma shadowgraph - a technique for visualization of perturbations in a transparent medium. We are substituting the numerical code by a computationally cheaper…

Surrogate models are widely used to approximate complex systems across science and engineering to reduce computational costs. Despite their widespread adoption, the field lacks standardisation across key stages of the modelling pipeline,…

Laminate mechanisms are a reliable concept in producing lowcost robots for educational and commercial purposes. These mechanisms are produced using low-cost manufacturing techniques which have improved significantly during recent years and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Roozbeh Khodambashi , Mohammad Sharifzadeh , Daniel M. Aukes

This study introduces a surrogate modeling framework merging proper orthogonal decomposition, long short-term memory networks, and multi-task learning, to accurately predict elastoplastic deformations in real-time. Superior to single-task…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Ruben Schmeitz , Joris Remmers , Olga Mula , Olaf van der Sluis

In order to optimally design materials, it is crucial to understand the structure-property relations in the material by analyzing the effect of microstructure parameters on the macroscopic properties. In computational homogenization, the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Theron Guo , Ondřej Rokoš , Karen Veroy

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in using machine learning to overcome the high cost of numerical simulation, with some learned models achieving impressive speed-ups over classical solvers whilst maintaining accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Meire Fortunato , Tobias Pfaff , Peter Wirnsberger , Alexander Pritzel , Peter Battaglia

Modeling the evolution of physical systems is critical to many applications in science and engineering. As the evolution of these systems is governed by partial differential equations (PDEs), there are a number of computational simulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Bharat Srikishan , Daniel O'Malley , Mohamed Mehana , Nicholas Lubbers , Nikhil Muralidhar

We give the first mathematically rigorous analysis of an emerging approach to finite element analysis (see, e.g., Bauer et al. [Appl. Numer. Math., 2017]), which we hereby refer to as the surrogate matrix methodology. This methodology is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Daniel Drzisga , Brendan Keith , Barbara Wohlmuth

The estimation of unknown values of parameters (or hidden variables, control variables) that characterise a physical system often relies on the comparison of measured data with synthetic data produced by some numerical simulator of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Xi Chen , Mike Hobson

Process-based hydrologic models are invaluable tools for understanding the terrestrial water cycle and addressing modern water resources problems. However, many hydrologic models are computationally expensive and, depending on the…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-02-11 Timothy Dai , Kate Maher , Zach Perzan

Neural simulators promise efficient surrogates for physics simulation, but scaling them is bottlenecked by the prohibitive cost of generating high-fidelity training data. Pre-training on abundant off-the-shelf geometries offers a natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Haixu Wu , Minghao Guo , Zongyi Li , Zhiyang Dou , Mingsheng Long , Kaiming He , Wojciech Matusik

Modeling the dynamic behavior of deformable objects is crucial for creating realistic digital worlds. While conventional simulations produce high-quality motions, their computational costs are often prohibitive. Subspace simulation…

Objective: Deep learning-based deformable image registration has achieved strong accuracy, but remains sensitive to variations in input image characteristics such as artifacts, field-of-view mismatch, or modality difference. We aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yihao Liu , Junyu Chen , Lianrui Zuo , Shuwen Wei , Brian D. Boyd , Carmen Andreescu , Olusola Ajilore , Warren D. Taylor , Aaron Carass , Bennett A. Landman

In engineering design, surrogate models are widely employed to replace computationally expensive simulations by leveraging design variables and geometric parameters from computer-aided design (CAD) models. However, these models often lose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jangseop Park , Namwoo Kang

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a powerful computational approach for studying complex biological and biomedical systems, yet its widespread use remains limited by significant computational demands. As models become increasingly…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-17 Kerri-Ann Norton , Daniel Bergman , Harsh Vardhan Jain , Trachette Jackson

Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is one of the most promising techniques for designing efficient Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for resource-constrained devices. Surrogate models play a crucial role in hardware-aware NAS as they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Azaz-Ur-Rehman Nasir , Samroz Ahmad Shoaib , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

We propose GNN-Surrogate, a graph neural network-based surrogate model to explore the parameter space of ocean climate simulations. Parameter space exploration is important for domain scientists to understand the influence of input…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Neng Shi , Jiayi Xu , Skylar W. Wurster , Hanqi Guo , Jonathan Woodring , Luke P. Van Roekel , Han-Wei Shen

Self-supervised pretraining from static structures of drug-like compounds and proteins enable powerful learned feature representations. Learned features demonstrate state of the art performance on a range of predictive tasks including…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-12 Derek Jones , Yue Yang , Felice C. Lightstone , Niema Moshiri , Jonathan E. Allen , Tajana S. Rosing

Surrogate Neural Networks are nowadays routinely used in industry as substitutes for computationally demanding engineering simulations (e.g., in structural analysis). They allow to generate faster predictions and thus analyses in industrial…

We present Scalable Multi-Agent Realistic Testbed (SMART), a realistic and efficient software tool for evaluating Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) algorithms. MAPF focuses on planning collision-free paths for a group of robots. While…