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Optimal recursive decomposition (or DR-planning) is crucial for analyzing, designing, solving or finding realizations of geometric constraint sytems. While the optimal DR-planning problem is NP-hard even for general 2D bar-joint constraint…

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We present a method for reliably determining the lowest energy structure of an atomic cluster in an arbitrary model potential. The method is based on a genetic algorithm, which operates on a population of candidate structures to produce new…

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By linking conceptual theories with observed data, generative models can support reasoning in complex situations. They have come to play a central role both within and beyond statistics, providing the basis for power analysis in molecular…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-15 Kris Sankaran , Susan P. Holmes

Retrieval-augmented generation improves large language models by grounding outputs in external knowledge sources, reducing hallucinations and addressing knowledge cutoffs. However, standard embedding-based retrieval fails to capture the…

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One important feature of complex systems are problem domains that have many local minima and substructure. Biological systems manage these local minima by switching between different subsystems depending on their environmental or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Ankit Grover , Vaishali Yadav , Bradly Alicea

The rapid growth of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has created a proliferation of toolkits, yet a fundamental gap remains between experimental prototypes and robust, production-ready systems. We present SearchGym, a modular…

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For large libraries of small molecules, exhaustive combinatorial chemical screens become infeasible to perform when considering a range of disease models, assay conditions, and dose ranges. Deep learning models have achieved state of the…

One of the great challenges of modern science is to faithfully model, and understand, matter at a wide range of scales. Starting with atoms, the vastness of the space of possible configurations poses a formidable challenge to any simulation…

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Boundary Representation (B-Rep) is the widely adopted standard in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and manufacturing. However, generative modeling of B-Reps remains a formidable challenge due to their inherent heterogeneity as geometric cell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Junran Lu , Yuanqi Li , Hengji Li , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo

The discovery of new energetic materials remains a pressing challenge hindered by limited availability of high-quality data. To address this, we have developed generative molecular language models that have been pretrained on extensive…

Automatic Chemical Design is a framework for generating novel molecules with optimized properties. The original scheme, featuring Bayesian optimization over the latent space of a variational autoencoder, suffers from the pathology that it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-13 Ryan-Rhys Griffiths , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Self-assembly in the laboratory can now yield `information-rich' nanostructures in which each component is of a distinct type and has a defined spatial position. Ensuring the thermodynamic stability of such structures requires…

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Large monolithic generative models trained on massive amounts of data have become an increasingly dominant approach in AI research. In this paper, we argue that we should instead construct large generative systems by composing smaller…

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Humans can produce complex whole-body motions when interacting with their surroundings, by planning, executing and combining individual limb movements. We investigated this fundamental aspect of motor control in the setting of autonomous…

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In materials science, the challenge of rapid prototyping materials with desired properties often involves extensive experimentation to find suitable microstructures. Additionally, finding microstructures for given properties is typically an…

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Multi-cellular robot design aims to create robots comprised of numerous cells that can be efficiently controlled to perform diverse tasks. Previous research has demonstrated the ability to generate robots for various tasks, but these…

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Gel-elastomer composites, comprising an active swellable hydrogel and a passive elastomer, are a compelling class of programmable material systems (PMS) capable of shape morphing under multiphysics actuation. The precise design of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Aaditya Chandrasekhar , Dex Doksoo Lee , Hyunwoo Kwon , Wei Chen

Motivation: RNA design aims to find RNA sequences that fold into a given target secondary structure, a problem also known as RNA inverse folding. However, not all target structures are designable. Recent advances in RNA designability have…

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Identifying optimal catalyst compositions and reaction conditions is central in catalysis research, yet remains challenging due to the vast multidimensional design spaces encompassing both continuous and categorical parameters. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Changquan Zhao , Yi Zhang , Zhuo Li , Li Jin , Cheng Hua , Yulian He

High-order tensor decomposition has been widely adopted to obtain compact deep neural networks for edge deployment. However, existing studies focus primarily on its algorithmic advantages such as accuracy and compression ratio-while…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Jinsong Zhang , Minghe Li , Jiayi Tian , Jinming Lu , Zheng Zhang