Lattice metamaterials enable lightweight, multifunctional structures, yet homogenization-based evaluation of their effective properties remains computationally expensive. Neural surrogates offer speed but often lack the accuracy and stability required for engineering-grade simulations. We introduce GMT, a G eometric M ultigrid T ransformer - a neural solver with high numerical fidelity for fast and reliable lattice homogenization. GMT achieves architectural alignment with Geometric Multigrid (GMG) by restructuring Point Transformer V3 to operate across sparse GMG hierarchies, capturing long-range dependencies and cross-level interactions essential for multigrid convergence. To enforce physical consistency, GMT incorporates physics-aware positional encoding for strict enforcement of periodicity and predicts both the finest-level solution and multi-level residual corrections. These predictions deliver a spectrally-aligned initialization , enabling end-to-end training under physics-informed and solver-aware losses and requiring only a single GMG V-cycle refinement to reach convergence. This fusion of neural prediction and numerical rigor achieves relative residual errors of 10 -5 with a 160× speedup over state-of-the-art GPU-based solvers at equivalent accuracy - particularly at high resolutions (e.g. , 512 3 ), where traditional methods become most costly. We validate GMT across mechanical and thermal domains, demonstrate robust generalization to unseen geometries and non-periodic settings, and showcase scalability to high resolutions - enabling real-time design iteration, multi-scale simulations, high-throughput material discovery, and inverse design.

The solving process of constrained multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithms (CMOEAs) is closely related to the search direction of the population. How to learn promising search directions through population data remains challenging. Therefore, this paper proposes a CMOEA with search direction learning. In this method, principal component analysis (PCA) is first used to learn the mainstream direction of population evolution, then single-constraint domination is used to learn the tributary direction of population evolution, and finally, the search directions are summarized to guide the generation of high-quality offspring populations. The performance comparison with five state-of-the-art algorithms on three standard test problems demonstrates the superiority of the proposed method. Its applicability in the field of simulated integrated circuits proves the scalability of the proposed method.

The packing problem, also known as cutting or nesting, has diverse applications in logistics, manufacturing, layout design, and atlas generation. It involves arranging irregularly shaped pieces to minimize waste while avoiding overlap. Recent advances in machine learning, particularly reinforcement learning, have shown promise in addressing the packing problem. In this work, we delve deeper into a novel machine learning-based approach that formulates the packing problem as conditional generative modeling. To tackle the challenges of irregular packing, including object validity constraints and collision avoidance, our method employs the score-based diffusion model to learn a series of gradient fields. These gradient fields encode the correlations between constraint satisfaction and the spatial relationships of polygons, learned from teacher examples. During the testing phase, packing solutions are generated using a coarse-to-fine refinement mechanism guided by the learned gradient fields. To enhance packing feasibility and optimality, we introduce two key architectural designs: multi-scale feature extraction and coarse-to-fine relation extraction. We conduct experiments on two typical industrial packing domains, considering translations only. Empirically, our approach demonstrates spatial utilization rates comparable to, or even surpassing, those achieved by the teacher algorithm responsible for training data generation. Additionally, it exhibits some level of generalization to shape variations. We are hopeful that this method could pave the way for new possibilities in solving the packing problem.