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

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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…

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…

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…

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.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…

cs.CV2022

Fidelity of Ensemble Aggregation for Saliency Map Explanations using Bayesian Optimization Techniques

Yannik Mahlau, Christian Nolde

In recent years, an abundance of feature attribution methods for explaining neural networks have been developed. Especially in the field of computer vision, many methods for genera…