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Foundational models (FMs), pretrained on extensive datasets using self-supervised techniques, are capable of learning generalized patterns from large amounts of data. This reduces the need for extensive labeled datasets for each new task,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Quan M. Tran , Suong N. Hoang , Lam M. Nguyen , Dzung Phan , Hoang Thanh Lam

Existing generative models for time series forecasting often transform simple priors (typically Gaussian) into complex data distributions. However, their sampling initialization, independent of historical data, hinders the capture of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Huibo Xu , Runlong Yu , Likang Wu , Xianquan Wang , Qi Liu

This document is a hands-on, comprehensive guide to deep learning in the realm of physical simulations. Rather than just theory, we emphasize practical application: every concept is paired with interactive Jupyter notebooks to get you up…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 N. Thuerey , B. Holzschuh , P. Holl , G. Kohl , M. Lino , Q. Liu , P. Schnell , F. Trost

As global energy systems transit to clean energy, accurate renewable generation and renewable demand forecasting is imperative for effective grid management. Foundation Models (FMs) can help improve forecasting of renewable generation and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Md Meftahul Ferdaus , Tanmoy Dam , Md Rasel Sarkar , Moslem Uddin , Sreenatha G. Anavatti

The unprecedented amount of data generated from experiments, field observations, and large-scale numerical simulations at a wide range of spatio-temporal scales have enabled the rapid advancement of data-driven and especially deep learning…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Suraj Pawar , Omer San , Aditya Nair , Adil Rasheed , Trond Kvamsdal

In the context of proxy modeling for process systems, traditional data-driven deep learning approaches frequently encounter significant challenges, such as substantial training costs induced by large amounts of data, and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Pengwei Liu , Zhongkai Hao , Xingyu Ren , Hangjie Yuan , Jiayang Ren , Dong Ni

This paper proposes a physics-guided recurrent neural network model (PGRNN) that combines RNNs and physics-based models to leverage their complementary strengths and improve the modeling of physical processes. Specifically, we show that a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-01 Xiaowei Jia , Jared Willard , Anuj Karpatne , Jordan Read , Jacob Zwart , Michael Steinbach , Vipin Kumar

Wearable foundation models (WFMs), trained on large volumes of data collected by affordable, always-on devices, have demonstrated strong performance on short-term, well-defined health monitoring tasks, including activity recognition,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yu Yvonne Wu , Yuwei Zhang , Hyungjun Yoon , Ting Dang , Dimitris Spathis , Tong Xia , Qiang Yang , Jing Han , Dong Ma , Sung-Ju Lee , Cecilia Mascolo

Prior-data fitted networks (PFNs) have recently been proposed as a promising way to train tabular foundation models. PFNs are transformers that are pre-trained on synthetic data generated from a prespecified prior distribution and that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yuchen Ma , Dennis Frauen , Emil Javurek , Stefan Feuerriegel

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on fine spatio-temporal scales for high-fidelity solutions is critical for numerous scientific breakthroughs. Yet, this process can be prohibitively expensive, owing to the inherent complexities…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Yulong Lu , Wuzhe Xu

Physics-constrained generative modeling aims to produce high-dimensional samples that are both physically consistent and distributionally accurate, a task that remains challenging due to often conflicting optimization objectives. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Giacomo Baldan , Qiang Liu , Alberto Guardone , Nils Thuerey

Time series forecasting drives operational decisions in areas like finance, transportation, and energy. While supervised learning approaches achieve strong performance, they require domain-specific training, feature engineering, and ongoing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kavin Soni , Debanshu Das , Vamshi Guduguntla

While computer science has seen remarkable advancements in foundation models, which remain underexplored in geoscience. Addressing this gap, we introduce a workflow to develop geophysical foundation models, including data preparation, model…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Hanlin Sheng , Xinming Wu , Xu Si , Jintao Li , Sibo Zhang , Xudong Duan

Foundation models have revolutionized artificial intelligence, setting new benchmarks in performance and enabling transformative capabilities across a wide range of vision and language tasks. However, despite the prevalence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Adam Goodge , Wee Siong Ng , Bryan Hooi , See Kiong Ng

Time series foundation models (TSFMs) are a class of potentially powerful, general-purpose tools for time series forecasting and related temporal tasks, but their behavior is strongly shaped by subtle inductive biases in their design.…

Foundation models have achieved remarkable success across diverse machine-learning domains through large-scale pretraining on large, diverse datasets. However, pretraining on such datasets introduces significant challenges due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Peiliang Gong , Emadeldeen Eldele , Min Wu , Zhenghua Chen , Xiaoli Li , Daoqiang Zhang

While reinforcement learning from scratch has shown impressive results in solving sequential decision-making tasks with efficient simulators, real-world applications with expensive interactions require more sample-efficient agents.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Remo Sasso , Michelangelo Conserva , Dominik Jeurissen , Paulo Rauber

Disordered metamaterials are promising for programming physical properties across diverse applications, yet their inverse design remains challenging due to the non-intuitive structure-property relationships and large design spaces. Recent…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ziyuan Xie , Weipeng Xu , Dazhi Zhao , Wenchang Zhang , Daoyang Dong , Bingbing Xu , Ning Liu , Sheng Mao , Tianju Xue

Process Model Forecasting (PMF) aims to predict how the control-flow structure of a process evolves over time by modeling the temporal dynamics of directly-follows (DF) relations, complementing predictive process monitoring that focuses on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yongbo Yu , Jari Peeperkorn , Johannes De Smedt , Jochen De Weerdt

We consider the application of deep generative models in propagating uncertainty through complex physical systems. Specifically, we put forth an implicit variational inference formulation that constrains the generative model output to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-11 Yibo Yang , Paris Perdikaris