arXiv Machine Learning

A fast direct solver based neural network for solving PDEs

arXiv:2606. 19895v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The matrices arising from large scale $N$-body problems can be efficiently represented using hierarchical matrices, whose key idea is that the admissible off-diagonal sub-matrices can be well approximated by low-rank matrices across a hierarchy of matrix partitions.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

Adjoint Method versus Physics-Informed Neural Networks in PDE-Constrained Inverse Problems

arXiv:2606. 12337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) are central to computational mechanics and are commonly solved by adjoint-based optimization, while physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a flexible alternative.

By Zhen Zhang, Alessandro Alla, George Em Karniadakis
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

One-shot acceleration of transient PDE solvers via online-learned preconditioners

arXiv:2509. 08765v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data-driven acceleration of scientific computing workflows has been a high-profile aim of machine learning (ML) for science, with numerical simulation of transient partial differential equations (PDEs) being one of the main applications.

By Mikhail Khodak, Min Ki Jung, Brian Wynne, Edmond Chow, Egemen Kolemen
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 15

Linearized PINN with pretrained nonlinear layers

The paper introduces a linearized Physics-Informed Neural Network (lPINN), a reduced‑order neural basis approach for solving forward and inverse differential equations. In an offline phase, lPINN learns continuous, differentiable neural basis functions from numerical solutions, which are then frozen for new problem instances; the online solution is obtained by minimizing the governing‑equation residual with additional constraints. Experiments on advection‑diffusion, Burgers', and nonlinear pendulum equations show that lPINN achieves lower solution and parameter errors than vanilla PINNs while reducing online inference times by up to three orders of magnitude, and its continuous representation generalizes to finer meshes without retraining.

By Wenhao Chen, Alexandre M. Tartakovsky
arXiv AI
Aug 18

A Two-Stage Learning PINN Approach for Solving the Inverse Problem of the 1D Porous Medium Equation

arXiv:2608. 16475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Porous Medium Equation (PME), given by $u_t = \Delta(u^m)$ for $m > 1$, is a degenerate nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation that arises in various physical applications such as fluid flow in porous media, heat transfer in plasmas, and population dynamics.

By Noura Al Helwani, Sophie Moufawad, Nabil Nassif
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Examining the robustness of Physics-Informed Neural Networks to noise for Inverse Problems

The paper evaluates the robustness of Physics‑Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) against noisy data in inverse problems, comparing them to a finite element method (FEM) plus optimizer baseline. Experiments on viscosity identification in 1D Burgers’ equation and 2D/3D Taylor‑Green Vortex with additive Gaussian noise show that PINNs, while requiring less human expertise, are outperformed by the traditional FEM approach in accuracy (e.g., RMSE 0.01 vs. 0.0013 for 2D Taylor‑Green with σ=1). PINNs do, however, exhibit better scaling with problem complexity, and the study highlights specific training failures that must be addressed for PINNs to become more competitive.

By Aleksandra Jekic, Afroditi Natsaridou, Signe Riemer-S{\o}rensen, Helge Langseth, Odd Erik Gundersen