arXiv Machine Learning

NEXT: Physics-Informed Neuro-Spectral Exponential Time Differencing Architectures

The paper introduces NEXT, a new physics-informed neural architecture that combines Neuro‑Spectral Architectures with high‑order exponential time‑differencing integrators. NEXT integrates the stiff linear part of PDEs exactly via matrix exponentials while a neural network models the remaining nonlinear dynamics, thereby overcoming spectral bias, causality issues, and numerical instability seen in previous PINNs and NeuSAs. Benchmark tests on stiff PDEs show NEXT remains stable and accurate, and it can also solve inverse problems by learning unknown parameters or boundary conditions from sparse data.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

TINNs: Time-Induced Neural Networks for Solving Time-Dependent PDEs

arXiv:2601. 20361v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) solve time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) by learning a mesh-free, differentiable solution that can be evaluated anywhere in space and time.

By Chen-Yang Dai, Che-Chia Chang, Te-Sheng Lin, Ming-Chih Lai, Chieh-Hsin Lai
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

When Does Frequency Decomposition Benefit Physics-Informed Neural Networks? A Preliminary Ablation Study

The paper investigates when frequency decomposition aids Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) by introducing a dual‑branch, spectrally‑gated architecture (DBSG‑PINN) that separates low‑ and high‑frequency components. Experiments on five one‑dimensional PDE benchmarks show that frequency decomposition significantly reduces error—up to 59.2% on a multimodal wave problem—when the target solution is spectrally complex, but offers little improvement on smoother problems and can even worsen performance on a simple 1D wave benchmark. The adaptive gate’s effectiveness scales with the spectral richness of the solution, suggesting it exploits frequency structure rather than adding noise.

By Shubham Rai
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
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