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
arXiv:2607. 06252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many problems in science and engineering are difficult to model accurately, either due to unknown physical mechanisms, poorly quantified measurement uncertainty, or prohibitive computational costs of high-fidelity simulations.
By Fabian Schneider, Tapio Helin, Leila Taghizadeh
arXiv:2606. 24999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) with unknown coefficients arise widely in scientific machine learning, including continuous-time reinforcement learning, yet solving them efficiently in a data-driven way remains challenging.
By Yanwei Jia, Du Ouyang, Huy\^en Pham, Xun Yu Zhou
arXiv:2605. 07060v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) provide a mesh-free framework for solving PDE-constrained inverse problems, but their extension to Bayesian inversion still faces a fundamental difficulty: prior distributions are typically defined in the weight space of neural networks, whereas physically meaningful prior assumptions are more naturally expressed in function space.
By Ryoichiro Agata, Tomohisa Okazaki
arXiv:2606. 20417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inverse problems for differential equations arise throughout science and engineering, where one seeks to infer unknown model parameters from noisy or incomplete observations.
By Christian Jimenez-Beltran, Aretha L. Teckentrup, Antonio Vergari, Konstantinos C. Zygalakis
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