arXiv:2607. 04123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inverse design of mechanical metamaterials seeks a periodic unit cell whose homogenized elastic properties meet a prescribed target, but current learning-based methods are data-hungry, mostly interpolative, and provide no guarantee that the generated design satisfies the specification.
By Yifan Wang
arXiv:2607. 14475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Disordered metamaterials feature microstructures with inherent randomness and irregularity, enabling them to achieve broader property coverage and superior performance unavailable in their regular counterparts.
By Yujie Xiang, Liwei Wang
arXiv:2606. 09266v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Acoustic metamaterial (AMM) inverse design is particularly challenging for broadband target responses due to acoustic dispersion: a structure that matches the desired response at one frequency may deviate at others, and modifying geometry to improve one sub-band often perturbs neighboring sub-bands.
By Yijie Li, Jiahao Xu, Ching-Chih Tsao, Lili Qiu, Jingxian Wang
arXiv:2607. 16583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Kirigami turns stiff sheets into compliant, shape-morphing structures, but its reliance on periodic cut patterns comes at a cost: correlated panel rotations couple extension to shear, so stretching one axis drives a parasitic shear that cannot be suppressed, and also confine anisotropic stiffness to a narrow, discrete set of responses that cannot be tuned independently.
By Haomin Yu, Hanxun Jin, Mingxuan Bi, Mohammad Jafari, Feng Helen Long, Michael J Greenberg, Farid Alisafaei, Guy Genin
arXiv:2604. 01480v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Metasurface inverse design can realize complex optical functionality, but turning a target optical response into executable optimization code still requires substantial expertise in computational electromagnetics and solver-specific software engineering.
By Yi Huang, Bowen Zheng, Yunxi Dong, Hong Tang, Huan Zhao, S. M. Rakibul Hasan Shawon, Hualiang Zhang
arXiv:2608. 03927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Engineered Skeletal Muscle Tissues (ESMs) have become a key structure for biomedical disease modeling and pharmacological screening, yet their functional characterization often relies on simplistic metrics like peak force, discarding critical kinetic information.
By Mattias Luber, Timo Betz
arXiv:2608. 09382v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Electromagnetic inverse scattering is a nonlinear and ill-posed problem, where accurate reconstruction is challenging due to measurement limitations, noise, and high computational costs, especially for 3-D imaging.
By Yutong Du, Zicheng Liu, Bo Qi, Yali Zong, Peixian Han
arXiv:2607. 20653v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting how deformable objects evolve under robotic manipulation is a longstanding challenge.
By Haocheng Yin, Shuohan Tao, Yongsheng Chen, Lu Gan
The inverse design of physical systems governed by partial differential equations is computationally demanding due to the high dimensionality and non-convexity of design spaces. Generative models for inverse design often lack robustness and transferability, whereas evolutionary strategies are robust but struggle in high-dimensional spaces.
arXiv:2602. 08406v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The prediction of electromagnetic spectra for MXene-based solar absorbers, where MXenes are a family of two-dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides, is a computationally intensive task traditionally addressed using full-wave solvers.
By Shujaat Khan, Waleed Iqbal Waseer, Muhammad Shahid Jabbar
arXiv:2607. 07682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The inverse design of physical systems governed by partial differential equations is computationally demanding due to the high dimensionality and non-convexity of design spaces.
By Xiangming Huang, Guannan Zhang, Lu Lu, Rapha\"el Pestourie
arXiv:2606. 23742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical neural networks promise low-power machine learning by computing directly with analogue device physics, but most architectures force nonlinear device responses to act as scalar weights.
By Ian T. Vidamour, Fernando Aguirre, Thomas J. Hayward, Matthew O. A. Ellis, Charles Swindells, Alexander McDonnell, Martin Trefzer, Finley Robins, Luca Manneschi, Susan Stepney, Tony Kenyon, Oliver J. Sutton, Jack C. Gartside, Ivan Y. Tyukin, Adnan Mehonic, Eleni Vasilaki