arXiv:2508.00831cs.CEcs.LG2025-08NeurIPS被引 6

首个跨领域的数据驱动工程设计开源框架,支持高效算法对比与实验自动化。

EngiBench: A Framework for Data-Driven Engineering Design Research

  • 构建统一接口与多领域基准,整合航空、传热、光子学等场景
  • 涵盖4类工程问题,支持生成模型与代理模型的公平对比
  • 适合做工程优化算法研究者,尤其关注可复现性与自动化流程

工程设计优化旨在自动确定组件的形状、拓扑或参数以在给定条件下最大化性能。该过程通常依赖物理模拟,但安装困难、计算成本高且需领域专业知识。为缓解这些问题,我们提出EngiBench,首个面向数据驱动工程设计的开源库与数据集,覆盖航空、热传导、光子学等多个领域。EngiBench提供统一API与精选基准,支持生成模型和代理模型等机器学习算法的公平、可复现比较。我们还发布EngiOpt,配套算法库,兼容EngiBench接口。两库均模块化,支持用户接入新算法或问题,自动化端到端实验流程,并集成可视化、数据集生成、可行性检查与性能分析工具。通过多个工程设计问题上的实验对比,验证了其通用性——此前此类工作耗时巨大。最后发现,这些任务对标准机器学习方法构成挑战,因设计空间高度敏感且受约束。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Engineering design optimization seeks to automatically determine the shapes, topologies, or parameters of components that maximize performance under given conditions. This process often depends on physics-based simulations, which are difficult to install, computationally expensive, and require domain-specific expertise. To mitigate these challenges, we introduce EngiBench, the first open-source library and datasets spanning diverse domains for data-driven engineering design. EngiBench provides a unified API and a curated set of benchmarks -- covering aeronautics, heat conduction, photonics, and more -- that enable fair, reproducible comparisons of optimization and machine learning algorithms, such as generative or surrogate models. We also release EngiOpt, a companion library offering a collection of such algorithms compatible with the EngiBench interface. Both libraries are modular, letting users plug in novel algorithms or problems, automate end-to-end experiment workflows, and leverage built-in utilities for visualization, dataset generation, feasibility checks, and performance analysis. We demonstrate their versatility through experiments comparing state-of-the-art techniques across multiple engineering design problems, an undertaking that was previously prohibitively time-consuming to perform. Finally, we show that these problems pose significant challenges for standard machine learning methods due to highly sensitive and constrained design manifolds.

工程优化数据驱动算法对比开源工具

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