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Neural scaling laws establish a predictable relationship between model performance and data or compute, offering crucial guidance for resource allocation in new domains and tasks. Yet such laws are most needed precisely where they are…

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Even though neural networks enjoy widespread use, they still struggle to learn the basic laws of physics. How might we endow them with better inductive biases? In this paper, we draw inspiration from Hamiltonian mechanics to train models…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Sam Greydanus , Misko Dzamba , Jason Yosinski

Deep learning (DL) has become an essential tool in prognosis and health management (PHM), commonly used as a regression algorithm for the prognosis of a system's behavior. One particular metric of interest is the remaining useful life (RUL)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-17 Sergio Cofre-Martel , Enrique Lopez Droguett , Mohammad Modarres

Numerical discretisations of partial differential equations (PDEs) can be written as discrete convolutions, which, themselves, are a key tool in AI libraries and used in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). We therefore propose to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-06 Boyang Chen , Claire E. Heaney , Christopher C. Pain

In this work, we solve inverse problems of nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations that can be formulated as a learning process of a special convolutional neural network. Instead of attempting to approximate functions in the inverse problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Yiran Wang

Many physics-informed machine learning methods for PDE-based problems rely on Gaussian processes (GPs) or neural networks (NNs). However, both face limitations when data are scarce and the dimensionality is high. Although GPs are known for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Weihao Yan , Christoph Brune , Mengwu Guo

Uncertainty quantification for partial differential equations is traditionally grounded in discretization theory, where solution error is controlled via mesh/grid refinement. Physics-informed neural networks fundamentally depart from this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Amartya Mukherjee , Maxwell Fitzsimmons , David C. Del Rey Fernández , Jun Liu

Catastrophic forgetting remains a fundamental challenge for neural networks when tasks are trained sequentially. In this work, we reformulate continual learning as a control problem where learning and preservation signals compete within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Sander de Haan , Yassine Taoudi-Benchekroun , Pau Vilimelis Aceituno , Benjamin F. Grewe

We propose a general framework for neural network compression that is motivated by the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle. For that we first derive an expression for the entropy of a neural network, which measures its complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Simon Wiedemann , Arturo Marban , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

Large optimization problems with hard constraints arise in many settings, yet classical solvers are often prohibitively slow, motivating the use of deep networks as cheap "approximate solvers." Unfortunately, naive deep learning approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Priya L. Donti , David Rolnick , J. Zico Kolter

This paper introduces the first, open source software library for Constraint Consistent Learning (CCL). It implements a family of data-driven methods that are capable of (i) learning state-independent and -dependent constraints, (ii)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yuchen Zhao , Jeevan Manavalan , Prabhakar Ray , Hsiu-Chin Lin , Matthew Howard

Conventional solvers are often computationally expensive for constrained optimization, particularly in large-scale and time-critical problems. While this leads to a growing interest in using neural networks (NNs) as fast optimal solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Minsoo Kim , Hongseok Kim

In this paper, we examine an important problem of learning neural networks that certifiably meet certain specifications on input-output behaviors. Our strategy is to find an inner approximation of the set of admissible policy parameters,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-24 Zain ul Abdeen , He Yin , Vassilis Kekatos , Ming Jin

We present our progress on the application of physics informed deep learning to reservoir simulation problems. The model is a neural network that is jointly trained to respect governing physical laws and match boundary conditions. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-26 Cedric Fraces Gasmi , Hamdi Tchelepi

When deploying machine learning solutions, they must satisfy multiple requirements beyond accuracy, such as fairness, robustness, or safety. These requirements are imposed during training either implicitly, using penalties, or explicitly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Ignacio Hounie , Alejandro Ribeiro , Luiz F. O. Chamon

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are indispensable for modeling many physical phenomena and also commonly used for solving image processing tasks. In the latter area, PDE-based approaches interpret image data as discretizations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Lars Ruthotto , Eldad Haber

Embedding physical knowledge into neural network (NN) training has been a hot topic. However, when facing the complex real-world, most of the existing methods still strongly rely on the quantity and quality of observation data. Furthermore,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 Dashan Zhang , Yuntian Chen , Shiyi Chen

Continual learning aims to emulate the human ability to continually accumulate knowledge over sequential tasks. The main challenge is to maintain performance on previously learned tasks after learning new tasks, i.e., to avoid catastrophic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Yunhao Ge , Yuecheng Li , Shuo Ni , Jiaping Zhao , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Laurent Itti

Neural networks are increasingly used in complex (data-driven) simulations as surrogates or for accelerating the computation of classical surrogates. In many applications physical constraints, such as mass or energy conservation, must be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Jim Magiera , Deep Ray , Jan S. Hesthaven , Christian Rohde

Neural networks have emerged as powerful surrogates for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), offering significant computational speedups over traditional methods. However, these models suffer from a critical limitation: error…

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