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Inverse electromagnetic design has emerged as a way of efficiently designing active and passive electromagnetic devices. This maturing strategy involves optimizing the shape or topology of a device in order to improve a figure of merit--a…

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Inverse design in nanophotonics remains challenging due to its ill-posed nature and sensitivity to input inaccuracies. We present a novel framework that combines a Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE) with a tandem network, enabling…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-22 Yuxiao Li , Taeyoon Kim , Allen Zhang , Zengbo Wang , Yongmin Liu

There is growing interest in learning Fourier domain sampling strategies (particularly for magnetic resonance imaging, MRI) using optimization approaches. For non-Cartesian sampling patterns, the system models typically involve non-uniform…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Guanhua Wang , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Bayesian experimental design (BED) aims at designing an experiment to maximize the information gathering from the collected data. The optimal design is usually achieved by maximizing the mutual information (MI) between the data and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Jiaxin Zhang , Sirui Bi , Guannan Zhang

Simulation and optimization are crucial for advancing the engineering design of complex systems and processes. Traditional optimization methods require substantial computational time and effort due to their reliance on resource-intensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Janak M. Patel , Milad Ramezankhani , Anirudh Deodhar , Dagnachew Birru

Electromagnetic absorbers combining ultrathin profiles with robust absorptivity across wide incidence angles are essential for applications such as stealth technology, wireless communications, and quantum computing. Traditional designs,…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-22 Eunbi Jang , Junghee Cho , Chanik Kang , Haejun Chung

We propose a general framework for differentiating shapes represented in binary images with respect to their parameters. This framework functions as an automatic differentiation tool for shape parameters, generating both binary density maps…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Zhaocheng Liu , Jim Bonar

Machine learning and optimization algorithms have been widely applied in the design and optimization for photonic devices. In this article, we briefly review recent progress of this field of research and show some data-driven applications…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 Tian Zhang , Qi Liu , Yihang Dan , Shuai Yu , Xu Han , Jian Dai , Kun Xu

Bayesian optimization has recently emerged as a popular and efficient tool for global optimization and hyperparameter tuning. Currently, the established Bayesian optimization practice requires a user-defined bounding box which is assumed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-18 Bobak Shahriari , Alexandre Bouchard-Côté , Nando de Freitas

Inverse design of metasurfaces for the joint optimization of optical modulation and algorithmic decoding in computational optics presents significant challenges, especially in applications such as hyperspectral imaging. We introduce a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Rongzhou Chen , Haitao Nie , Shuo Zhu , Yaping Zhao , Chutian Wang , Edmund Y. Lam

Purpose: To develop a deep learning-based Bayesian inference for MRI reconstruction. Methods: We modeled the MRI reconstruction problem with Bayes's theorem, following the recently proposed PixelCNN++ method. The image reconstruction from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 GuanXiong Luo , Na Zhao , Wenhao Jiang , Edward S. Hui , Peng Cao

Wavelength division multiplexers are fundamental to the functioning and performance of integrated photonic circuits, with applications ranging from optical interconnects to sensing and quantum technologies. Current solutions are limited by…

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High-dimensional Bayesian optimization (BO) tasks such as molecular design often require 10,000 function evaluations before obtaining meaningful results. While methods like sparse variational Gaussian processes (SVGPs) reduce computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Natalie Maus , Kyurae Kim , Geoff Pleiss , David Eriksson , John P. Cunningham , Jacob R. Gardner

In recent years, the development of nanophotonic devices has presented a revolutionary means to manipulate light at nanoscale. Recently, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have displayed powerful ability in the inverse design of nanophotonic…

Controlling the flow of broadband electromagnetic energy at the nanoscale remains a critical challenge in optoelectronics. Surface plasmon polaritons (or plasmons) provide subwavelength localization of light, but are affected by significant…

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Bragg coherent diffraction imaging (BCDI) is a unique and powerful method for tracking three-dimensional strain fields non-destructively. While BCDI has been successfully applied to many scientific research fields and receives high demands,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Jiangtao Zhao , Ivan A. Vartanyants , Fucai Zhang

By co-designing a meta-optical front end in conjunction with an image-processing back end, we demonstrate noise sensitivity and compactness substantially superior to either an optics-only or a computation-only approach, illustrated by two…

Characterizing statistical properties of solutions of inverse problems is essential for decision making. Bayesian inversion offers a tractable framework for this purpose, but current approaches are computationally unfeasible for most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-18 Jonas Adler , Ozan Öktem

We present a new algorithm to train a robust neural network against adversarial attacks. Our algorithm is motivated by the following two ideas. First, although recent work has demonstrated that fusing randomness can improve the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Xuanqing Liu , Yao Li , Chongruo Wu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Online optimization has gained increasing interest due to its capability of tracking real-world streaming data. Although online optimization methods have been widely studied in the setting of frequentist statistics, few works have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yifan Yang , Chang Liu , Zheng Zhang