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Large language models (LLMs) have reshaped the research landscape by enabling new approaches to knowledge retrieval and creative ideation. Yet their application in discipline-specific experimental science, particularly in highly…

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Generative machine learning models have revolutionized material discovery by capturing complex structure-property relationships, yet extending these approaches to the inverse design of three-dimensional metamaterials remains limited by…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Li Zheng , Siddhant Kumar , Dennis M. Kochmann

Metamaterials are artificial materials designed to exhibit effective material parameters that go beyond those found in nature. Composed of unit cells with rich designability that are assembled into multiscale systems, they hold great…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Doksoo Lee , Wei Wayne Chen , Liwei Wang , Yu-Chin Chan , Wei Chen

Dynamic manufacturing processes exhibit complex characteristics defined by time-varying parameters, nonlinear behaviors, and uncertainties. These characteristics require sophisticated in-situ monitoring techniques utilizing multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Suk Ki Lee , Hyunwoong Ko

Inverse design aims to find design parameters $x$ achieving target performance $y^*$. Generative approaches learn bidirectional mappings between designs and labels, enabling diverse solution sampling. However, standard conditional flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Miguel de Campos , Werner Krebs , Hanno Gottschalk

Colloidal self-assembly -- the spontaneous organization of colloids into ordered structures -- has been considered key to produce next-generation materials. However, the present-day staggering variety of colloidal building blocks and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-29 Gabriele Maria Coli , Emanuele Boattini , Laura Filion , Marjolein Dijkstra

Generative AI has achieved remarkable empirical success, but from the perspective of statistics it often remains opaque: its predictions may be accurate, yet the underlying mechanism is difficult to interpret, analyze, and trust. This book…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-11 Shinto Eguchi

Generative models have fundamentally reshaped the landscape of decision-making, reframing the problem from pure scalar reward maximization to high-fidelity trajectory generation and distribution matching. This paradigm shift addresses…

The design of metamaterials which support unique optical responses is the basis for most thin-film nanophotonics applications. In practice this inverse design problem can be difficult to solve systematically due to the large design…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Andrew Lininger , Michael Hinczewski , Giuseppe Strangi

Analysis of molecular scale interactions and chemical structure offers an enormous opportunity to tune material properties for targeted applications. However, designing materials from molecular scale is a grand challenge owing to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-19 Praneeth S Ramesh , Tarak K Patra

In automated UI design generation, a key challenge is the lack of support for iterative processes, as most systems focus solely on end-to-end output. This stems from limited capabilities in interpreting design intent and a lack of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Mingyue Yuan , Jieshan Chen , Yongquan Hu , Sidong Feng , Mulong Xie , Gelareh Mohammadi , Zhenchang Xing , Aaron Quigley

Practical applications of mechanical metamaterials often involve solving inverse problems where the objective is to find the (multiple) microarchitectures that give rise to a given set of properties. The limited resolution of additive…

While material innovation can enable sustainable development, environmental and social impacts of emerging materials are often assessed only after design choices are "locked in." Here, we argue for a shift in perspective: life cycle…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-28 Rachel Woods-Robinson , Amalie Trewartha

Advances in Generative AI tools have allowed designers to manipulate existing 3D models using text or image-based prompts, enabling creators to explore different design goals. Photochromic color-changing systems, on the other hand, allow…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Yunyi Zhu , Faraz Faruqi , Stefanie Mueller

When solving inverse problems in geophysical imaging, deep generative models (DGMs) may be used to enforce the solution to display highly structured spatial patterns which are supported by independent information (e.g. the geological…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Jorge Lopez-Alvis , Eric Laloy , Frédéric Nguyen , Thomas Hermans

With the continuous advancement of technology, artificial intelligence has significantly impacted various fields, particularly healthcare. Generative models, a key AI technology, have revolutionized medical image generation, data analysis,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuan Sun , Jorge Ortiz

In computational design and fabrication, neural networks are becoming important surrogates for bulky forward simulations. A long-standing, intertwined question is that of inverse design: how to compute a design that satisfies a desired…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Navid Ansari , Hans-Peter Seidel , Vahid Babaei

From self-assembly and protein folding to combinatorial metamaterials, a key challenge in material design is finding the right combination of interacting building blocks that yield targeted properties. Such structures are fiendishly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-26 Ryan van Mastrigt , Marjolein Dijkstra , Martin van Hecke , Corentin Coulais

Generative systems are becoming a crucial part of current design practice. There exist gaps however, between the digital processes, field data and designer's input. To solve this problem, multiple processes were developed in order to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Demircan Tas , Osman Sumer

Realizing general inverse design could greatly accelerate the discovery of new materials with user-defined properties. However, state-of-the-art generative models tend to be limited to a specific composition or crystal structure. Herein, we…