arXiv AI

Virtual Sensing to Enable Real-Time Monitoring of Inaccessible Locations & Unmeasurable Parameters

arXiv:2412. 00107v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-time monitoring of safety-critical interior states remains an open problem in energy systems where physical instrumentation is infeasible.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Real-Time Sensing of Inaccessible Physical Fields via an Edge-Deployable Hardware-Portable Graph Neural Operator

arXiv:2604. 01802v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time inference of inaccessible interior physical fields from sparse boundary observations is a fundamental but unresolved problem in scientific machine learning, with direct relevance to safety-critical monitoring across many engineering applications.

By William Howes, Jason Yoo, Kazuma Kobayashi, Subhankar Sarkar, Farid Ahmed, Souvik Chakraborty, Syed Bahauddin Alam
arXiv AI
4d ago

Transolver-$\sigma$: Joint Spectral-Physical Subspace Modeling for Neural PDE Solving

Transolver‑σ is a neural PDE solver that jointly models spectral and physical subspaces to improve accuracy in both one‑step and autoregressive rollouts. The method uses adaptive physical-state interactions, Slice‑Residual Physics‑Attention, and an axis‑factorized Fourier operator to enable information exchange between representations. Across five standard PDE benchmarks, Transolver‑σ reduces benchmark‑averaged relative error by 33.4% compared to the strongest baseline and shows strong performance on coupled multiphysics systems and real‑world fluid and combustion data.

By Haonan Shangguan, Hang Zhou, Haixu Wu, Yuezhou Ma, Jianmin Wang, Mingsheng Long
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Graph Transfer Learning via Shared Latent Geometry: Theory and Applications

arXiv:2606. 00716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference and control in engineered physical systems pay a heavy physics cost at deployment: state estimators, inverse-problem solvers, model-predictive controllers, schedulers, and observers are often not closed-form and must re-solve a numerical optimization per instance, with the operator re-supplied each time.

By Tong Wu, Andrew Campbell, Anna Scaglione
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

Constrained Sensing and Reliable State Estimation with Shallow Recurrent Decoders on a TRIGA Mark II Reactor

The paper introduces Shallow Recurrent Decoder (SHRED) networks as a data‑driven method for accurate state estimation in engineering systems, specifically applied to the TRIGA Mark II research reactor. SHRED maps sparse sensor measurements to the full state space, handling noisy data and requiring minimal training time. The study demonstrates SHRED’s performance using both synthetic CFD data and experimental temperature recordings, achieving low reconstruction errors and showcasing its potential for real‑time monitoring and digital twin development.

By Stefano Riva, Carolina Introini, Jos\`e Nathan Kutz, Antonio Cammi
arXiv AI
Jun 8

Agentic Physical AI toward a Domain-Specific Foundation Model for Energy Systems: A Case Study on Nuclear Reactor Control

arXiv:2512. 23292v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The prevailing paradigm in AI for physical systems: scaling general-purpose foundation models toward universal multimodal reasoning, confronts a barrier at the control interface.

By Yoon Pyo Lee, Samrendra Roy, Kazuma Kobayashi, Sajedul Talukder, Diab Abueidda, Seid Koric, Souvik Chakraborty, Syed Bahauddin Alam
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 1

Sensitivity-Constrained Neural Operators for Data-Efficient Forward and Inverse Modeling of Partial Differential Equation Systems

The paper introduces Sensitivity‑Constrained Neural Operators (SC‑NOs), which augment standard neural operator training with sampled Jacobian supervision from differentiable solvers or discrete adjoints. By matching selected sensitivities during training, SC‑NOs improve forward prediction accuracy and significantly enhance gradient‑based inverse reconstruction for distributed fields. Experiments on advection–diffusion, RANS–Spalart–Allmaras, high‑dimensional gridded inputs, and a shallow‑water tsunami source‑inversion case demonstrate that SC‑NOs achieve a better accuracy–cost trade‑off and enable near‑real‑time wave‑propagation forecasting from sparse observations.

By Abdolmehdi Behroozi, Chaopeng Shen, Daniel Kifer, Kathryn Lawson
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Learning Physics from an Imperfect Ancestor

arXiv:2609.24947v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural operators evaluate parametric partial differential equations cheaply but degrade sharply outside their training distribution. Physics-informed n...

By S. Mohammad Mousavi, Teeratorn Kadeethum, Nikolaos Bouklas, Somdatta Goswami
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

Learning PDE Dynamics between Submanifolds Using Green's Observation Operators

The paper introduces the Green's Observation Operator (GObO), a method that maps the ambient medium to the Green's kernel of a linear PDE restricted to source and observation submanifolds. This approach allows new sources to be evaluated with a single lower-dimensional integral, avoiding full-domain solvers and black-box surrogate evaluations. Experiments on 3‑D heat conduction and advection–diffusion show that GObO, trained on static sources, can predict moving-source responses with 4–8× lower error than black-box surrogates, achieving 1.4 ms per query after a single conditioning pass.

By Jan Tauberschmidt, Jephte Abijuru, Samuel Okon, Naukshatro Bose, Sophie Fellenz, Marius Kloft, Jonas Latz, Sebastian Josef Vollmer