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Physics-Constrained Fine-Tuning of Flow-Matching Models for Generation and Inverse Problems

arXiv:2508. 09156v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a framework for fine-tuning flow-matching generative models to enforce physical constraints and solve inverse problems in scientific systems.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 19

Composing Flow-Matching Energies with Known Physics: Generation, OOD Detection, and Inversion on PDE Fields

The paper presents a method that combines flow‑matching models with energy‑based modeling to explicitly construct scalar energy functions for physical fields. These energies are derived from a matching regression objective on a linear Gaussian interpolation, avoiding variational approximations or extra MCMC steps, and can be used for energy‑corrected data generation, out‑of‑distribution detection, and posterior sampling in inverse problems. The approach enables general MCMC samplers that reduce PDE residuals and spectral distance, and it demonstrates that combining data‑driven and physics‑based energies improves OOD detection accuracy.

By Yixuan Sun, Anirban Samaddar, Sandeep Madireddy
arXiv AI
Jul 24

PILD: Physics-Informed Learning via Diffusion

arXiv:2601. 21284v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative tools for modeling complex data distributions, yet their purely data-driven nature limits applicability in engineering and scientific problems where physical laws must be respected.

By Tianyi Zeng, Tianyi Wang, Jiaru Zhang, Zimo Zeng, Feiyang Zhang, Yiming Xu, Sikai Chen, Junfeng Jiao, Christian Claudel, Xinbo Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

PosteriorBench: From Point Estimates to Posterior Matching in Evaluating Generative Inverse Solvers

PosteriorBench is a new benchmark that evaluates how well generative inverse solvers recover full posterior distributions rather than just a single reconstruction. It tests four physics-based inverse problems—Darcy flow inversion, Poisson source recovery, carbon capture and storage, and light transport material inference—using high-fidelity reference posteriors generated by rejection sampling and MCMC. The benchmark employs five metrics (posterior-mean error, posterior-standard-deviation error, maximum mean discrepancy, sliced Wasserstein distance, and radially averaged power-spectrum error) to assess pointwise accuracy, uncertainty, distributional alignment, and global frequency fidelity, revealing significant distribution-matching gaps in current solvers and highlighting the importance of neural operators, guidance weights, and generation noise for posterior-variance calibration.

By Jiachen Yao, Zi-Siang Hsu, Xi Deng, Aditi Gupta, Xin Ju, Sally M Benson, Gege Wen, Anima Anandkumar
arXiv AI
Jul 2

SNAP-FM: Sparse Nonlinear Accelerated Projection for Physics-Constrained Generative Modeling

arXiv:2607. 00095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative models have emerged as scalable surrogates for physical simulation, yet they offer no guarantee that their outputs respect the conservation laws, boundary conditions, and nonlinear invariants that govern the underlying physics.

By Alaina Kolli, Theodoros Xenakis, Utkarsh Utkarsh, Pengfei Cai, Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli, Alan Edelman, Christopher Vincent Rackauckas
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 19

Inverse Problems for Partial Differential Equations with Jump Discontinuities in Coefficients via Two-Stage Physics-Informed Deep Learning and Statistical Mixture Models

The paper introduces a two‑stage physics‑informed deep learning framework for solving inverse problems in partial differential equations with jump discontinuities in coefficients. The first stage uses a dual‑network architecture to approximate the PDE solution and a relaxed continuous surrogate of the coefficient field, followed by Bayesian inference with Gaussian mixture and birth‑death Markov chain models to estimate coefficient regimes and transition regions. The second stage reformulates the inverse problem as a constrained estimator with a hard piecewise‑constant coefficient representation, achieving accurate parameter estimation with acceptable computational costs across various PDE types.

By Zhikun Zhang, Guanyu Pan, Xiangjun Wang, Yong Xu, Guangtao Zhang