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most citedA flexible framework for large-scale FDTD simulations: open-source inverse design for 3D nanostructures

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23 papers

cs.CV2026

FLEET: Token-Based Feature Extraction for Event Camera-based Reinforcement Learning

Tristan Gottwald, Maximilian Schier, Melanie Schaller +1

Event cameras generate asynchronous, high-frequency data streams offering spatially sparse information at lower latency than traditional cameras. In principle, these properties sho…

quant-ph2026

Reinforcement learning for ion shuttling on trapped-ion quantum computers

Maximilian Schier, Lea Richtmann, Christian Staufenbiel +4

Scalable trapped-ion quantum computing is commonly realized with modular chips that feature distinct zones with specific functionalities, such as storage, state preparation, and ga…

physics.comp-ph2026

Numerical field optimization for enhanced efficiency in time-reversible gradient computation of open-source GPU-accelerated FDTD simulations

Yannik Mahlau, Lukas Berg, Bodo Rosenhahn

Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations often involve physical quantities spanning multiple orders of magnitude, such as the speed of light or electromagnetic field amplit…

physics.optics2026

Gradient-Informed Bayesian and Interior Point Optimization for Efficient Inverse Design in Nanophotonics

Yannik Mahlau, Yannick Augenstein, Tyler W. Hughes +2

Inverse design, particularly geometric shape optimization, provides a systematic approach for developing high-performance nanophotonic devices. While numerous optimization algorith…

quant-ph2026

Stochastic Neural Networks for Quantum Devices

Bodo Rosenhahn, Tobias J. Osborne, Christoph Hirche

This work presents a formulation to express and optimize stochastic neural networks as quantum circuits in gate-based quantum computing. Motivated by a classical perceptron, stocha…

cs.LG2025

Naga: Vedic Encoding for Deep State Space Models

Melanie Schaller, Nick Janssen, Bodo Rosenhahn

This paper presents Naga, a deep State Space Model (SSM) encoding approach inspired by structural concepts from Vedic mathematics. The proposed method introduces a bidirectional re…

cs.NE2025

A Rotation-Invariant Embedded Platform for (Neural) Cellular Automata

Dominik Woiwode, Jakob Marten, Bodo Rosenhahn

This paper presents a rotation-invariant embedded platform for simulating (neural) cellular automata (NCA) in modular robotic systems. Inspired by previous work on physical NCA, we…

quant-ph2025

Neural Guided Sampling for Quantum Circuit Optimization

Bodo Rosenhahn, Tobias J. Osborne, Christoph Hirche

Translating a general quantum circuit on a specific hardware topology with a reduced set of available gates, also known as transpilation, comes with a substantial increase in the l…

cs.LG2025

Benchmarking M-LTSF: Frequency and Noise-Based Evaluation of Multivariate Long Time Series Forecasting Models

Nick Janssen, Melanie Schaller, Bodo Rosenhahn

Understanding the robustness of deep learning models for multivariate long-term time series forecasting (M-LTSF) remains challenging, as evaluations typically rely on real-world da…

cs.CV2025

Pruning by Block Benefit: Exploring the Properties of Vision Transformer Blocks during Domain Adaptation

Patrick Glandorf, Bodo Rosenhahn

Vision Transformer have set new benchmarks in several tasks, but these models come with the lack of high computational costs which makes them impractical for resource limited hardw…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Inverse Design in Photonic Integrated Circuits

Yannik Mahlau, Maximilian Schier, Christoph Reinders +3

Inverse design of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) has traditionally relied on gradientbased optimization. However, this approach is prone to end up in local minima, which resul…

cs.CV2025

Multi-Flow: Multi-View-Enriched Normalizing Flows for Industrial Anomaly Detection

Mathis Kruse, Bodo Rosenhahn

With more well-performing anomaly detection methods proposed, many of the single-view tasks have been solved to a relatively good degree. However, real-world production scenarios o…

cs.LG2025

S4D-Bio Audio Monitoring of Bone Cement Disintegration in Pulsating Fluid Jet Surgery under Laboratory Conditions

Melanie Schaller, Sergej Hloch, Akash Nag +5

This study investigates a pulsating fluid jet as a novel precise, minimally invasive and cold technique for bone cement removal. We utilize the pulsating fluid jet device to remove…

cs.LG2025

AutoML for Multi-Class Anomaly Compensation of Sensor Drift

Melanie Schaller, Mathis Kruse, Antonio Ortega +2

Addressing sensor drift is essential in industrial measurement systems, where precise data output is necessary for maintaining accuracy and reliability in monitoring processes, as…

quant-ph2025

Optimization Driven Quantum Circuit Reduction

Bodo Rosenhahn, Tobias J. Osborne, Christoph Hirche

Implementing a quantum circuit on specific hardware with a reduced available gate set is often associated with a substantial increase in the length of the equivalent circuit. This…

cs.CV2025

HydraMix: Multi-Image Feature Mixing for Small Data Image Classification

Christoph Reinders, Frederik Schubert, Bodo Rosenhahn

Training deep neural networks requires datasets with a large number of annotated examples. The collection and annotation of these datasets is not only extremely expensive but also…

physics.optics2024★ 2 cited

A flexible framework for large-scale FDTD simulations: open-source inverse design for 3D nanostructures

Yannik Mahlau, Frederik Schubert, Konrad Bethmann +5

We introduce an efficient open-source python package for the inverse design of three-dimensional photonic nanostructures using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method. Leve…

cs.CV2024

Utilizing Uncertainty in 2D Pose Detectors for Probabilistic 3D Human Mesh Recovery

Tom Wehrbein, Marco Rudolph, Bodo Rosenhahn +1

Monocular 3D human pose and shape estimation is an inherently ill-posed problem due to depth ambiguities, occlusions, and truncations. Recent probabilistic approaches learn a distr…

physics.optics2024

Quantized Inverse Design for Photonic Integrated Circuits

Frederik Schubert, Yannik Mahlau, Konrad Bethmann +5

The inverse design of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) presents distinctive computational challenges, including their large memory requirements. Advancements in the two-photon p…

cs.CV2024

SplatPose & Detect: Pose-Agnostic 3D Anomaly Detection

Mathis Kruse, Marco Rudolph, Dominik Woiwode +1

Detecting anomalies in images has become a well-explored problem in both academia and industry. State-of-the-art algorithms are able to detect defects in increasingly difficult set…

cs.AI2024

Mastering Zero-Shot Interactions in Cooperative and Competitive Simultaneous Games

Yannik Mahlau, Frederik Schubert, Bodo Rosenhahn

The combination of self-play and planning has achieved great successes in sequential games, for instance in Chess and Go. However, adapting algorithms such as AlphaZero to simultan…

quant-ph2024

Quantum Normalizing Flows for Anomaly Detection

Bodo Rosenhahn, Christoph Hirche

A Normalizing Flow computes a bijective mapping from an arbitrary distribution to a predefined (e.g. normal) distribution. Such a flow can be used to address different tasks, e.g.…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Q-SENN: Quantized Self-Explaining Neural Networks

Thomas Norrenbrock, Marco Rudolph, Bodo Rosenhahn

Explanations in Computer Vision are often desired, but most Deep Neural Networks can only provide saliency maps with questionable faithfulness. Self-Explaining Neural Networks (SEN…