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We introduce a general method for improving the convergence rate of gradient-based optimizers that is easy to implement and works well in practice. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the method in a range of optimization problems by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Atilim Gunes Baydin , Robert Cornish , David Martinez Rubio , Mark Schmidt , Frank Wood

In this paper, we propose new structured second-order methods and structured adaptive-gradient methods obtained by performing natural-gradient descent on structured parameter spaces. Natural-gradient descent is an attractive approach to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-22 Wu Lin , Frank Nielsen , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Mark Schmidt

Physics-informed neural networks (PINN) have been widely used in computational physics to solve partial differential equations (PDEs). In this study, we propose an energy-embedding-based physics-informed neural network method for solving…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Yi-Qiang Wu , Xuan Liu , Hanlin Li , Fuqiang Wang

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its many variants are the widespread optimization algorithms for training deep neural networks. However, SGD suffers from inevitable drawbacks, including vanishing gradients, lack of theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Zeinab Ebrahimi , Gustavo Batista , Mohammad Deghat

In this study, we utilize the emerging Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) approach for the first time to predict the flow field of a compressor cascade. Different from conventional training methods, a new adaptive learning strategy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zhihui Li , Francesco Montomoli , Sanjiv Sharma

Natural Evolution Strategies (NES) is a promising framework for black-box continuous optimization problems. NES optimizes the parameters of a probability distribution based on the estimated natural gradient, and one of the key parameters…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Masahiro Nomura , Isao Ono

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) represent a significant advancement in Scientific Machine Learning (SciML), which integrate physical domain knowledge into an empirical loss function as soft constraints and apply existing machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xiaoran Cheng , Sen Na

The prohibitive cost and low fidelity of experimental data in industry scale thermofluid systems limit the usefulness of pure data-driven machine learning methods. Physics-informed neural networks (PINN) strive to overcome this by embedding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-25 Ryno Laubscher , Pieter Rousseau

Motivated by recent research on Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), we make the first attempt to introduce the PINNs for numerical simulation of the elliptic Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) on 3D manifolds. PINNs are one of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Zhuochao Tang , Zhuojia Fu

We consider the Quantum Natural Gradient Descent (QNGD) scheme which was recently proposed to train variational quantum algorithms. QNGD is Steepest Gradient Descent (SGD) operating on the complex projective space equipped with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 Touheed Anwar Atif , Uchenna Chukwu , Jesse Berwald , Raouf Dridi

We introduce the Energy Dissipation Rate guided Adaptive Sampling (EDRAS) strategy, a novel method that substantially enhances the performance of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) in solving thermodynamically consistent partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Chunyan Li , Wenkai Yu , Qi Wang

Evolution equations, including both ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and partial differential equations (PDEs), play a pivotal role in modeling dynamic systems. However, achieving accurate long-time integration for these equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Xiaodong Feng , Haojiong Shangguan , Tao Tang , Xiaoliang Wan

We evaluate natural gradient, an algorithm originally proposed in Amari (1997), for learning deep models. The contributions of this paper are as follows. We show the connection between natural gradient and three other recently proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Razvan Pascanu , Yoshua Bengio

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have been widely used to solve various scientific computing problems. However, large training costs limit PINNs for some real-time applications. Although some works have been proposed to improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Xu Liu , Xiaoya Zhang , Wei Peng , Weien Zhou , Wen Yao

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) provide a flexible and effective alternative for estimating seismic wavefield solutions due to their typical mesh-free and unsupervised features. However, their accuracy and training cost restrict…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 Shijun Cheng , Tariq Alkhalifah

Bayesian inference plays an important role in advancing machine learning, but faces computational challenges when applied to complex models such as deep neural networks. Variational inference circumvents these challenges by formulating…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-03 Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Didrik Nielsen

The performance of gradient-based optimization methods, such as standard gradient descent (GD), greatly depends on the choice of learning rate. However, it can require a non-trivial amount of user tuning effort to select an appropriate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Nikola Surjanovic , Alexandre Bouchard-Côté , Trevor Campbell

In this study, we present and validate the predictive capability of the Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) methodology for solving a variety of engineering and biological dynamical systems governed by ordinary differential equations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Tyrus Whitman , Andrew Particka , Christopher Diers , Ian Griffin , Charuka Wickramasinghe , Pradeep Ranaweera

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) exhibit exceptional energy efficiency on neuromorphic hardware due to their sparse activation patterns. However, conventional training methods based on surrogate gradients and Backpropagation Through Time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Xiaochen Zhao , Chengting Yu , Kairong Yu , Lei Liu , Aili Wang

Approximating solutions to partial differential equations (PDEs) is fundamental for the modeling of dynamical systems in science and engineering. Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are a recent machine learning-based approach, for…