arXiv Machine Learning

MiDShip: Multimodal Dataset of Ship Cargo Hold Structures for Engineering Design

arXiv AI
Aug 18

Large Language Models and their Awareness of Mechanics and Spatial Geometry

arXiv:2608. 14615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) perform well on established code-generation and mathematical-reasoning benchmarks, but their capabilities in mechanics and spatial geometry, here denoted as mechanical engineering awareness, has not been quantified systematically.

By Johannes Gerstmayr, Sebastian Weyrer, Tobias M\"oltner, Peter Manzl, Michael Pieber
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Closed-loop AI achieves certifiable engineering design

arXiv:2608.21976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI has automated parts of scientific discovery, including paper generation, expert-level coding, therapeutic proposal, and autonomous experimen...

By Tianyi Yu, Chengxing Tao, Haoxuan Shen, Huiyang Li, Rugang Chen, Long Teng, Lilin Wang, Yan Li, Qingbin Chen, Chaogang Xu, Lizhong Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 29

Categorical Optimization with Bayesian Anchored Latent Trust Regions for Structural Design under High-Dimensional Uncertainty

arXiv:2604. 25241v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Categorical structural optimization under aleatoric uncertainty is challenging because each design variable must be selected from a finite catalog of admissible instances, while each candidate design may require expensive stochastic finite-element evaluations.

By Zhangyong Liang, Jie Hou, Huanhuan Gao, Manyu Xiao
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

MidSurfNet: Learning Face Pairing for Mid-surface Abstraction of Thin-walled CAD Models

MidSurfNet is a learning-based method for pairing faces in thin‑walled CAD models, addressing the key subproblem of mid‑surface abstraction for finite element analysis. It uses a dual‑stream scorer—one geometry stream and one attributed‑topology stream—fused by a pair‑conditioned gate to make per‑pair decisions that replace manual thresholds. The method organizes retained relations into variable‑cardinality face groups independent of processing order, and on a new MidSurf dataset of 1,575 annotated models it achieves an 87.32% pair‑level F1‑score and a 75.42% completion rate, outperforming rule‑based baselines, especially on multi‑wall‑thickness cases.

By Li Ye, Xinhang Zhou, Xingyu Yang, Ruofeng Tong, Hailong Li, Peng Du, Min Tang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Zero-shot rib design: merging training-free generative prior with topology optimization

The paper introduces a method that integrates a frozen text‑to‑image diffusion model into density‑based topology optimization via score distillation sampling. By converting a natural language prompt into a generative gradient, the approach lets physics decide which design features survive, achieving significant compliance reductions across multiple domains and physics regimes. An automated pipeline then transforms the optimized density fields into CAD‑ready geometries.

By Yongmin Kwon, Namwoo Kang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 19

Elimination Geometry

The monograph introduces Elimination Geometry (EG), a typed, native‑loss, audit‑oriented framework that investigates when locally optimal objects can be realized by a shared deployment rule. EG examines how elimination and compression can erase distinctions needed for prediction, inference, control, or representation, and it separates local solvability, global realizability, and finite‑sample certifiability. The work synthesizes tools from geometry, optimization, information theory, statistics, and machine learning to address regular, coordination, singular, compositional, and resource‑limited mechanisms, and demonstrates applications in sparse model selection, distribution‑free prediction, observational treatment policies, routed expert and retrieval systems, and learned score fields.

By Mian Huang, Xueqin Wang