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AI model ICF-DLM advances inertial confinement fusion prediction

Researchers have developed ICF-DLM, a novel language model-based predictor for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) that aims to improve accuracy and reduce costs associated with experiments at the National Ignition Facility. This new model decomposes the prediction into yield, peak timing, and local waveform, using bidirectional denoising and a physics-driven reward system. In evaluations on ICFBench, ICF-DLM demonstrated a reduction in peak-timing error compared to autoregressive LLaMA-3-8B and other sequence models, showing promise for scientific domains with limited data and sparse events. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Xiang Zhang, Varchas Gopalaswamy, Rahman Ejaz, Riccardo Betti, Dongfang Liu ·

    Decomposition-Guided Diffusion Language Models for Inertial Confinement Fusion Prediction

    arXiv:2609.07756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a leading pathway toward clean energy, but each shot at the National Ignition Facility costs on the order of one million dollars, making accurate AI surrogates a high-value target. We study exoge…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Decomposition-Guided Diffusion Language Models for Inertial Confinement Fusion Prediction

    Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a leading pathway toward clean energy, but each shot at the National Ignition Facility costs on the order of one million dollars, making accurate AI surrogates a high-value target. We study exogenous-driven ICF waveform prediction, where a 512…