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cs.LG2026

Simulator-Refined Diffusion for Radio-Frequency Inverse Design

Jinhao Liang, Jacob K. Christopher, Michael Frei +2

Diffusion models have shown potential in inverse design of printed circuit boards (PCBs), enabling the generation of layouts conditioned on target S-parameters. Despite this promis…

cs.LG2026

Constraint-Aware Flow Matching: Decision Aligned End-to-End Training for Constrained Sampling

Jacob K. Christopher, James E. Warner, Ferdinando Fioretto

Deep generative models provide state-of-the-art performance across a wide array of applications, with recent studies showing increasing applicability for science and engineering. D…

cs.LG2025

Neuro-Symbolic Generative Diffusion Models for Physically Grounded, Robust, and Safe Generation

Jacob K. Christopher, Michael Cardei, Jinhao Liang +1

Despite the remarkable generative capabilities of diffusion models, their integration into safety-critical or scientifically rigorous applications remains hindered by the need to e…

cs.LG2025

Training-Free Constrained Generation With Stable Diffusion Models

Stefano Zampini, Jacob K. Christopher, Luca Oneto +2

Stable diffusion models represent the state-of-the-art in data synthesis across diverse domains and hold transformative potential for applications in science and engineering, e.g.,…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Learning Joint Models of Prediction and Optimization

James Kotary, Vincenzo Di Vito, Jacob Cristopher +2

The Predict-Then-Optimize framework uses machine learning models to predict unknown parameters of an optimization problem from exogenous features before solving. This setting is co…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Constrained Synthesis with Projected Diffusion Models

Jacob K Christopher, Stephen Baek, Ferdinando Fioretto

This paper introduces an approach to endow generative diffusion processes the ability to satisfy and certify compliance with constraints and physical principles. The proposed metho…

cs.LG2023

Analyzing and Enhancing the Backward-Pass Convergence of Unrolled Optimization

James Kotary, Jacob Christopher, My H Dinh +1

The integration of constrained optimization models as components in deep networks has led to promising advances on many specialized learning tasks. A central challenge in this sett…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Predict-Then-Optimize by Proxy: Learning Joint Models of Prediction and Optimization

James Kotary, Vincenzo Di Vito, Jacob Christopher +2

Many real-world decision processes are modeled by optimization problems whose defining parameters are unknown and must be inferred from observable data. The Predict-Then-Optimize f…