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As an increasingly powerful technique in integrated photonics, inverse design uses optimization algorithms to automatically create compact, high-performance photonic structures, often yielding non-intuitive layouts far more compact than…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-03 Junho Park , Taehan Kim , Mohammad Ali , Di Liang

Inverse design, where we seek to design input variables in order to optimize an underlying objective function, is an important problem that arises across fields such as mechanical engineering to aerospace engineering. Inverse design is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Tailin Wu , Takashi Maruyama , Long Wei , Tao Zhang , Yilun Du , Gianluca Iaccarino , Jure Leskovec

As data-driven methods rise in popularity in materials science applications, a key question is how these machine learning models can be used to understand microstructure. Given the importance of process-structure-property relations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Julia Ling , Maxwell Hutchinson , Erin Antono , Brian DeCost , Elizabeth A. Holm , Bryce Meredig

Metamaterials, synthetic materials with customized properties, have emerged as a promising field due to advancements in additive manufacturing. These materials derive unique mechanical properties from their internal lattice structures,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jaewan Park , Shashank Kushwaha , Junyan He , Seid Koric , Qibang Liu , Iwona Jasiuk , Diab Abueidda

We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing inhomogeneities by performing a finite number of scattering measurements of acoustic type in the time-harmonic setting. We set up the reconstruction as a fully discrete variational problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Daniela Di Donato , Luca Rondi

We consider the inverse scattering problem of retrieving the structural parameters of a stratified medium consisting of dispersive materials, given knowledge of the complex reflection coefficient in a finite frequency range. It is shown…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-23 Johannes Skaar , Magnus W. Haakestad

Internal properties of a sample can be observed by medical imaging tools, such as ultrasound devices, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) which are based on relying on changes in material density or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Mehrdad Shafiei Dizaji , Devin Harris

Disordered (amorphous) materials, such as glasses, are emerging as promising candidates for applications within energy storage, nonlinear optics, and catalysis. Their lack of long-range order and complex short- and medium-range orderings,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-18 Jonas A. Finkler , Yan Lin , Tao Du , Jilin Hu , Morten M. Smedskjaer

The micromechanics of a variety of systems experiencing a structural arrest due to their high density could be unified by a thermodynamic framework governing their approach to 'jammed' configurations. The mechanism of supporting an applied…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jasna Brujic , Sam F. Edwards , Ian Hopkinson , Hernan A. Makse

Homogenisation empowers the efficient macroscale system level prediction of physical scenarios with intricate microscale structures. Here we develop an innovative powerful, rigorous and flexible framework for asymptotic homogenisation of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-08 A. J. Roberts

This paper provides a theoretical foundation for some common formulations of inverse problems in wave propagation, based on hyperbolic systems of linear integro-differential equations with bounded and measurable coefficients. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kirk D. Blazek , Christiaan C. Stolk , William W. Symes

This paper focuses on a specific aspect of human visual discrimination from computationally generated solutions for CAAD ends. The bottleneck at work here concern informational ratios of discriminative rates over generative ones. The amount…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Pierre Cutellic

Hierarchical materials in the natural world are often made through the self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules. Achieving similar structural complexity in synthetic materials requires understanding how various molecular parameters affect…

Geophysical inversion attempts to estimate the distribution of physical properties in the Earth's interior from observations collected at or above the surface. Inverse problems are commonly posed as least-squares optimization problems in…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Vladimir Puzyrev

The inverse design of metasurfaces faces inherent challenges due to the nonlinear and highly complex relationship between geometric configurations and their electromagnetic behavior. Traditional optimization approaches often suffer from…

A methodology is presented for investigating the dynamics of heterogeneous media using the nonlocal continuum model given by the peridynamic formulation. The approach presented here provides the ability to model the macroscopic dynamics…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-04-27 Bacim Alali , Robert Lipton

The multi-scale nature of architectured materials raises the need for advanced experimental methods suitable for the identification of their effective properties, especially when their size is finite and they undergo extreme deformations.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Filippo Agnelli , Pierre Margerit , Paolo Celli , Chiara Daraio , Andrei Constantinescu

The inverse problem of diffraction theory in essence amounts to the reconstruction of the atomic positions of a solid from its diffraction image. From a mathematical perspective, this is a notoriously difficult problem, even in the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-23 Uwe Grimm , Michael Baake

Establishing structure-property linkages in polycrystalline materials requires representative two- (2D) and three- (3D) dimensional microstructural inputs for full-field simulations. A core objective of microstructure characterization and…

Real-world datasets are inherently heterogeneous, yet how per-class structural differences and sampling imbalance shape the training dynamics of diffusion models-and potentially exacerbate disparities-remains poorly understood. While models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Flavio Nicoletti , Chenxiao Ma , Enrico Ventura , Luca Saglietti , Stefano Sarao Mannelli