Sheares Xue Wen Toh

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none

Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several

Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Generative modeling · 67% Optimization for machine learning · 33%
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Computational science and engineering · 100%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning
black-box optimization
0.912025
Evolvable Conditional Diffusion · IJCAI 2025
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model
0.912025
Evolvable Conditional Diffusion · IJCAI 2025
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
guided diffusion
0.912025
Evolvable Conditional Diffusion · IJCAI 2025
Computational science and engineering
AI for science
0.312025
Evolvable Conditional Diffusion · IJCAI 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

probabilistic evolution · 1.7evolutionary algorithm · 1.7denoising diffusion · 1.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Evolvable Conditional Diffusion
abstract
This paper presents an evolvable conditional diffusion method such that black-box, non-differentiable multi-physics models, as are common in domains like computational fluid dynamics and electromagnetics, can be effectively used for guiding the generative process to facilitate autonomous scientific discovery. We formulate the guidance as an optimization problem where one optimizes for a desired fitness function through updates to the descriptive statistic for the denoising distribution, and derive an evolution-guided approach from first principles through the lens of probabilistic evolution. Interestingly, the final derived update algorithm is analogous to the update as per common gradient-based guided diffusion models, but without ever having to compute any derivatives. We validate our proposed evolvable diffusion algorithm in two AI for Science scenarios: the automated design of fluidic topology and meta-surface. Results demonstrate that this method effectively generates designs that better satisfy specific optimization objectives without reliance on differentiable proxies, providing an effective means of guidance-based diffusion that can capitalize on the wealth of black-box, non-differentiable multi-physics numerical models common across Science.
Zhao Wei, Chin Chun Ooi, Abhishek Gupta 0001, Jian Cheng Wong, Pao-Hsiung Chiu, Sheares Xue Wen Toh, Yew-Soon Ong
IJCAI6