Generative AI for material design: A mechanics perspective from burgers to matter

arXiv:2604.03409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence offers a new paradigm to design matter in high-dimensional spaces. However, its underlying mechanisms remain difficult to interpret and limit adoption in computational mechanics. This gap is striking because its core tools-diffusion, stochastic differential equations, and inverse problems-are fundamental to the mechanics of materials. Here we show that diffusion-based generative AI and computational mechanics ar