Course Syllabus

CLASS SESSIONS
Guest Lecture: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30am to 1:20pm at Shriram 104
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TEXTBOOK
Supplement materials will be available online. 
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course focuses on a geometric learning approach to derive, test, and validate a wide range of artificial intelligence enabled models for engineering (meta-materials, composites, alloys) and natural materials (soil, rock, clay). Students will learn how to incorporate a wide range of data stored in graphs, manifold and point sets to train neural networks to design optimal experiments, embed high-dimensional data, enforce mechanics and physical principles, de-noise data with geometry, and enable model-free simulations and discover causality of mechanisms that leads to the failures of materials.

PREREQUISITES
Linear algebra and mechanics of materials.

ASSESSMENT AND GRADING POLICY
Grades will be based on:
Lab Report 1  ............................................................ 10%
Lab Report 2  ............................................................ 10%
Lab Report 3   ............................................................10%
Lab Report 4  ............................................................ 10%
Quiz 1 .........................................................................10%
Quiz 2 .........................................................................10%
Comprehensive Final Project.................................... 40%
 
COURSE LOGISTICS
The course will be split into two parts. We will first cover the practical aspect of using neural network to generate models. We will assume that all the data are in the Euclidean space and apply constraints to generate the inductive bias necessary to complete the models. In the second part of the course, we will explore and experiments with different methods to generate constitutive models that are of sufficient robustness and accuracy for   engineering practice. For each session, there will be a 1-to-1.5-hours of lecture followed by a COLAB tutorial. 

Online Course Materials

Date
Topic
Lecture
External Reading
Assignment
Tutorial
1/10
Course overview, logistic and miscellaneous items 
[Slide]
N/A
N/A
1/12
Computer Lab: Supervised learning with labeled data: nonlinear regression via neural nets, ​non-convex optimization, hyper-parameter tuning
[Colab]
Google Deepmind X ICL course: [URL]
Lab Task 1 given
Value
1/17​
Supervised learning for elastic energy functional​
[Slide]
Training NN with physical constraints: [Paper]
Open source data: [Data]
N/A
MMLDT tutorial: [Video]
1/19
Building the learning algorithm with group data: regularization, physics constraints, symmetry,  Lie group/Algebra 
[Video]
​Lie Algebra interpolation:[Paper]
Parametrization of Loss function: [Paper]
Metrics for 3D rotation: [URL]
N/A
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1/24
Recurrent neural network for plasticity: Numerical experiments with Long short-term memory, gated recurrent neural network, and attention-based transformer. 
[Slide]
Traction-Separation Law: [Paper][Data]
​Blackbox Plasticity: [URL]
Lab Report 1 due;
Lab Task 2 given
Colab for traction-separation law: [Colab]
1/26
Neural network yield surface and level sets: Theory
[Slide]
Sobolev training of yield function [Paper]
N/A
1D plasticity:
Part 1[Video]
Part 2 [Video]
1/31
Neural network yield surface and level sets: Implementation
[Video]
[Slide]
Transitional plasticity: [Paper]
Component-based plasticity [Paper]
N/A
Value
2/2
Physics-informed neural network as a partial differential equation solver
[Slide]
Classical PINN: [URL]
Limitations of PINN: [URL]
Multi-objective loss: [Arxiv]
Lab Report 2 due
Lab Task 3 given
Colab for Collocation physics-informed neural network
​[Colab]
2/7
Overview on non-Euclidean machine learning: metrics, de-noising and optimal transport 
Value
Stanford CS 468: [URL]
HKUST Lecture for differential manifold: [PDF]
The 5G of machine learning: [Arxiv]
Value
Value
2/9
​Geometric Learning Part I: Graph learning in mechanics before machine learning
[Slide]
[Video]
Introduction from Hugging Face ​: [URL]
Mechanics of granular materials: [Paper] 
Knowledge graph review: [Paper]
N/A
Embedding of finite element solution
​[Colab]
2/14
​Geometric Learning Part I: Graph embedding for nonlinear elasticity (node embedding)​
[Slide]
Semi-supervised learning for a surrogate family [URL]
Lab Report 3 due
2/16
​Geometric Learning Part I: Graph embedding and autoencoders for plasticity (graph pooling)
[Slide]
[Video]
Graph embedding for plastic deformation: [URL]
N/A
2/21
​Geometric Learning Part I: Directed graph, tree, decision tree, and Monte Carlo Tree search for long-term planning
Value
Meta-modeling: [Paper]
​Model validation: [Paper]
Lab Task 4 given
2/23
Guest Lecture 1: deep reinforcement learning for the design of experiments
Guest Lecture 2: Causal discovery for mechanics
Value
Design of experiment: [Paper] 
Causal discovery: [Paper]
N/A
Value
2/28
Geometric Learning Part II: Manifold ​ 
[Slide]
Yielding manifold [Paper]
Lab Report 4 due
3/2
 ​Geometric Learning Part II: Model-free elasticity
Value
KD-tree search [Paper]
Value
3/7
​​Geometric Learning Part II: Manifold embedding for de-noising
Value
Embedding and geometric autoencoders: [Paper]
N/A
3/9
Final project presentations
​N/A
N/A