arXiv:2607. 09763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Engineering shape optimization faces challenges in both expert-dependent problem setup and surrogate-model reliability.
By Wenhao Fan, Yuanwei Bin, Jianghan Gu, Wenfa Luo, Jiao Xiang, Yuntian Chen, Shiyi Chen
arXiv:2609.36806v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Modern engineering systems, from automobiles to aircraft, are designed by using precise, continuous parametric computer-aided design (CAD) models. Eval...
By Daniel Leibovici, Nikola Borislavov Kovachki, Dawon Ahn, Ruben Ohana, Ira J. S. Shokar, Abouzar Ghasemi, Semih Akkurt, Rishikesh Ranade, Neil Ashton, Jan Kautz, Jean Kossaifi
Generative machine learning provides an end-to-end framework for aerodynamic design optimization by generating diverse aerodynamic configurations conditioned on target performance. However, the genera...
CANTO is a transformer neural operator that directly maps continuous CAD geometry—represented as sequences of NURBS patches—to physical fields without requiring meshing. It tokenizes control points, knot vectors, and weights to predict continuous surface and volume fields at arbitrary query locations. Evaluated on automotive and aircraft aerodynamics benchmarks, CANTO achieves state‑of‑the‑art accuracy, notably a 19.8% reduction in surface‑pressure error on HiLiftAeroML, and enables gradient‑based inverse design, finding lower‑drag designs on AhmedML.
By Daniel Leibovici, Nikola Borislavov Kovachki, Dawon Ahn, Ruben Ohana, Ira J. S. Shokar, Abouzar Ghasemi, Semih Akkurt, Rishikesh Ranade, Neil Ashton, Jan Kautz, Jean Kossaifi
Optimizing 3D shapes within the latent spaces of deep generative models is fundamental to computer assisted engineering, yet remains prone to a critical failure mode we term manifold drift: the tendency of gradient-based optimization to move latent vectors away from the manifold of valid shapes. This problem is exacerbated in state-of-the-art 3D shape generative models that operate in increasingly high-dimensional latent spaces where valid shapes occupy a vanishingly small fraction of the full space.
arXiv:2507. 17786v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) based adaptive optimization algorithm for aerodynamic shape optimization focused on dimensionality reduction.
By Florian Sobieczky, Alfredo Lopez, Erika Dudkin, Christopher Lackner, Matthias Hochsteger, Bernhard Scheichl, Helmut Sobieczky