arXiv:2602. 15648v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Inverse design problems are common in engineering and materials science.
By Jens U. Kreber, Christian Wei{\ss}enfels, Joerg Stueckler
arXiv:2605. 11759v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dimensionality reduction is essential in simulation-based shape design, where high-dimensional parameterizations hinder optimization, surrogate modeling, and systematic design-space exploration.
By Andrea Serani, Giorgio Palma, Matteo Diez
Co-PiLOT is a latent optimization framework that maps candidate physical structures through a generative encoder-decoder, using the decoder as a learned validity prior and performing physics-informed black-box optimization in latent space. It is applied to the inverse design of magnesium alloy microstructure/texture, employing a vision transformer encoder paired with latent diffusion, diffusion transformer, and rectified-flow transformer decoders trained on an 80,000-sample EBSD dataset to produce a minimal bottleneck representation. The MERIDIAN optimizer, driven by a deep-kernel Gaussian process and failure-aware feasibility prediction, achieves the best target-driven objective score within 160 simulations, reducing relative target error by 3–22% compared to seven baseline methods.
By Mahish K. Guru, Mayank Nagar, Ayush vyas, Jan Bohlen, Roland Aydin, Noomane Ben Khalifa
The paper evaluates the Tabular Prior-data Fitted Network (TabPFN) as a surrogate model in surrogate‑assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) for expensive optimization problems. Through extensive experiments in both offline and online settings across a range of problem types—including single‑objective, multi‑objective, constrained, combinatorial, mixed‑variable, and engineering tasks—the study finds that TabPFN’s effectiveness varies strongly with the problem characteristics. The authors conclude that TabPFN should be used selectively, with customized model management and algorithm design tailored to data availability, landscape complexity, and search‑space properties.
By Lu Han, Jin Wang, Yuchen Li, Haoran Gu, Shulei Liu, Ziyang Shi, Wenao Lu, Handing Wang
arXiv:2607. 23480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Variational autoencoders (VAEs) transform high-dimensional, often noisy data into a compact latent representation, making downstream optimization more tractable.
By Ye Shi
arXiv:2607. 13688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emerging sustainable materials increasingly rely on engineered hierarchy and microstructure to achieve control of their properties and mechanical behavior.
By J. Storm, I. B. C. M. Rocha, S. Schyck, K. Masania, F. P. van der Meer