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Is a deep learning model capable of understanding systems governed by certain first principle laws by only observing the system's output? Can deep learning learn the underlying physics and honor the physics when making predictions? The…

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Recent diffusion models increasingly favor Transformer backbones, motivated by the remarkable scalability of fully attentional architectures. Yet the locality bias, parameter efficiency, and hardware friendliness--the attributes that…

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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a hugely important subject with applications in almost every engineering field, however, fluid simulations are extremely computationally and memory demanding. Towards this end, we present Lat-Net, a…

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Urban scene reconstruction from real-world observations has emerged as a powerful tool for self-driving development and testing. While current neural rendering approaches achieve high-fidelity rendering along the recorded trajectories,…

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This study introduces a novel point-wise diffusion model that processes spatio-temporal points independently to efficiently predict complex physical systems with shape variations. This methodological contribution lies in applying forward…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Jiyong Kim , Sunwoong Yang , Namwoo Kang

Two models based on convolutional neural networks are trained to predict the two-dimensional velocity-fluctuation fields at different wall-normal locations in a turbulent open channel flow, using the wall-shear-stress components and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-23 L. Guastoni , A. Güemes , A. Ianiro , S. Discetti , P. Schlatter , H. Azizpour , R. Vinuesa

Solving flow through porous media is a crucial step in the topology optimisation of cold plates, a key component in modern thermal management. Traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods, while accurate, are often prohibitively…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-10 Jinhong Wang , Matei C. Ignuta-Ciuncanu , Ricardo F. Martinez-Botas , Teng Cao

We present FlightDiffusion, a diffusion-model-based framework for training autonomous drones from first-person view (FPV) video. Our model generates realistic video sequences from a single frame, enriched with corresponding action spaces to…

We present a novel and flexible architecture for point cloud segmentation with dual-representation iterative learning. In point cloud processing, different representations have their own pros and cons. Thus, finding suitable ways to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Maosheng Ye , Shuangjie Xu , Tongyi Cao , Qifeng Chen

We present our deep learning framework to solve and accelerate the Time-Dependent partial differential equation's solution of one and two spatial dimensions. We demonstrate DiffusionNet solver by solving the 2D transient heat conduction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Mahmoud Asem

Scientific Machine Learning (ML) is gaining momentum as a cost-effective alternative to physics-based numerical solvers in many engineering applications. In fact, scientific ML is currently being used to build accurate and efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Matteo Salvador , Alison L. Marsden

Traditional fluid dynamics simulation pipelines combine numerical solvers with rendering, producing highly realistic results but at considerable computational cost. Diffusion-based generative video models offer a faster alternative, yet…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yang Bai , George Eskandar , Ziyuan Liu , Gitta Kutyniok

Surrogate modeling has emerged as a powerful tool to accelerate Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. Existing 3D geometric learning models based on point clouds, voxels, meshes, or graphs depend on explicit geometric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-26 Qian Chen , Mohamed Elrefaie , Angela Dai , Faez Ahmed

Physics-based simulations are often used to model and understand complex physical systems and processes in domains like fluid dynamics. Such simulations, although used frequently, have many limitations which could arise either due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Nikhil Muralidhar , Jie Bu , Ze Cao , Long He , Naren Ramakrishnan , Danesh Tafti , Anuj Karpatne

Urban scene reconstruction requires modeling both static infrastructure and dynamic elements while supporting diverse environmental conditions. We present \textbf{StyledStreets}, a multi-style street simulator that achieves…

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Simulation is a powerful tool to better understand physical systems, but generally requires computationally expensive numerical methods. Downstream applications of such simulations can become computationally infeasible if they require many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yoeri Poels , Koen Minartz , Harshit Bansal , Vlado Menkovski

Safety-critical traffic simulation plays a crucial role in evaluating autonomous driving systems under rare and challenging scenarios. However, existing approaches often generate unrealistic scenarios due to insufficient consideration of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Mingxing Peng , Ruoyu Yao , Xusen Guo , Yuting Xie , Xianda Chen , Jun Ma

Realistic and interactive scene simulation is a key prerequisite for autonomous vehicle (AV) development. In this work, we present SceneDiffuser, a scene-level diffusion prior designed for traffic simulation. It offers a unified framework…

The development of video diffusion models unveils a significant challenge: the substantial computational demands. To mitigate this challenge, we note that the reverse process of diffusion exhibits an inherent entropy-reducing nature. Given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Lingmin Ran , Mike Zheng Shou

Recent advancements in image motion deblurring, driven by CNNs and transformers, have made significant progress. Large-scale pre-trained diffusion models, which are rich in real-world modeling, have shown great promise for high-quality…

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