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Record W4407931459 · doi:10.1088/1402-4896/adba19

Generative tandem neural network for optimization of nanophotonic color splitters

2025· article· en· W4407931459 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenuePhysica Scripta · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicPhotoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
Canadian institutionsWestern University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsComputer scienceNanophotonicsSplitterExtrapolationTopology optimizationTandemArtificial neural networkInverseArtificial intelligenceTopology (electrical circuits)OpticsMathematics

Abstract

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Abstract Tandem neural networks have seen success in the inverse design of nanophotonic structures. However, unlike other generative inverse design approaches, these networks typically suffer from a significant limitation as they are single input single output networks with zero diversity. To address this limitation we propose a novel single input, multiple output tandem network specifically for the inverse design of color splitter nanophotonic structures. The color splitters can separate and redirect different colors of light into spatially separated pixels, thereby replacing the color filters used in digital cameras to mitigate absorptive losses. We additionally combine iterative transfer learning approaches to allow training on a small dataset of higher quality samples created through topology optimization, with the training based on a labeled dataset of just 128 labelled samples. The forward network is shown to work well in both interpolation and extrapolation, while a deficiency in the performance of the inverse network in extrapolation can be overcome by use of an additional genetic algorithm optimization. Overall, the tandem network combined with genetic optimization allows significant improvement in the performance of the nanophotonic structures, even compared to traditional gradient-based topology optimization. This technique promises more effective and resource-efficient approach at general optimization, marking a significant advance in the algorithmic design of nanophotonic devices.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.892
Threshold uncertainty score0.455

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.221
Teacher spread0.213 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it