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We present Epistemic Variational Onsager Diffusion Models (EVODMs), a machine learning framework that integrates Onsager's variational principle with diffusion models to enable thermodynamically consistent learning of free energy and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Zequn He , Celia Reina

In this work, we develop a method for learning interpretable, thermodynamically stable and Galilean invariant partial differential equations (PDEs) based on the Conservation-dissipation Formalism of irreversible thermodynamics. As governing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Juntao Huang , Zhiting Ma , Yizhou Zhou , Wen-An Yong

Thermodynamics with internal variables is a common approach in continuum mechanics to model inelastic (i.e., non-equilibrium) material behavior. While this approach is computationally and theoretically attractive, it currently lacks a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-31 Weilun Qiu , Shenglin Huang , Celia Reina

We propose a systematic method for learning stable and physically interpretable dynamical models using sampled trajectory data from physical processes based on a generalized Onsager principle. The learned dynamics are autonomous ordinary…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-11-25 Haijun Yu , Xinyuan Tian , Weinan E , Qianxiao Li

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) offer a unified framework for solving both forward and inverse problems of differential equations, yet their performance and physical consistency strongly depend on how governing laws are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Guojie Li , Liu Hong

Recent work in deep learning focuses on solving physical systems in the Ordinary Differential Equation or Partial Differential Equation. This current work proposed a variant of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) that can learn the hidden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Mansura Habiba , Barak A. Pearlmutter

Variational principles play a fundamental role in deriving evolution equations of physics. They are working well in case of nondissipative evolution but for dissipative systems they are not unique, not predictive and not constructive. With…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-02 Péter Ván , Róbert Kovács

Much attention has recently been devoted to data-based computing of evolution of physical systems. In such approaches, information about data points from past trajectories in phase space is used to reconstruct the equations of motion and to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Christopher Eldred , François Gay-Balmaz , Vakhtang Putkaradze

In this paper we propose a new model-based unsupervised learning method, called VarNet, for the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) using deep neural networks (NNs). Particularly, we propose a novel loss function that relies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Reza Khodayi-Mehr , Michael M. Zavlanos

In this study, we propose parameter-varying neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) where the evolution of model parameters is represented by partition-of-unity networks (POUNets), a mixture of experts architecture. The proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Kookjin Lee , Nathaniel Trask

We advance a variational method to prove qualitative properties such as symmetries, monotonicity, upper and lower bounds, sign properties, and comparison principles for a large class of doubly-nonlinear evolutionary problems including…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Stefano Melchionna

We present an algorithm to learn the relevant latent variables of a large-scale discretized physical system and predict its time evolution using thermodynamically-consistent deep neural networks. Our method relies on sparse autoencoders,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Quercus Hernandez , Alberto Badias , David Gonzalez , Francisco Chinesta , Elias Cueto

Learning continuous-time stochastic dynamics is a fundamental and essential problem in modeling sporadic time series, whose observations are irregular and sparse in both time and dimension. For a given system whose latent states and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Yingru Liu , Yucheng Xing , Xuewen Yang , Xin Wang , Jing Shi , Di Jin , Zhaoyue Chen

Using Onsager's variational principle, we derive dynamical equations for a nonequilibrium active system with odd elasticity. The elimination of the extra variable that is coupled to the nonequilibrium driving force leads to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-15 Li-Shing Lin , Kento Yasuda , Kenta Ishimoto , Yuto Hosaka , Shigeyuki Komura

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) [31] use automatic differentiation to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) by penalizing the PDE in the loss function at a random set of points in the domain of interest. Here, we develop a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-03 E. Kharazmi , Z. Zhang , G. E. Karniadakis

Learning the underlying potential energy of stochastic gradient systems from partial and noisy observations is a fundamental problem arising in physics, chemistry, and data-driven modeling. Classical approaches often rely on direct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yubin Lu , Xiaofan Li , Chun Liu , Qi Tang , Yiwei Wang

Unsupervised learning with functional data is an emerging paradigm of machine learning research with applications to computer vision, climate modeling and physical systems. A natural way of modeling functional data is by learning operators…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Jacob H. Seidman , Georgios Kissas , George J. Pappas , Paris Perdikaris

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) is a required step in the simulation of natural and engineering systems. The associated computational costs significantly increase when exploring various scenarios, such as changes in initial or…

The operator learning has received significant attention in recent years, with the aim of learning a mapping between function spaces. Prior works have proposed deep neural networks (DNNs) for learning such a mapping, enabling the learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-15 Yusuke Tanaka , Takaharu Yaguchi , Tomoharu Iwata , Naonori Ueda

We propose a systematic formulation of the migration behaviors of a vesicle in a Poiseuille flow based on Onsager's variational principle. Our model is described by a combination of the phase field theory for the vesicle and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-03 Yutaka Oya , Toshihiro Kawakatsu
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