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We introduce the concept of a Graph-Informed Neural Network (GINN), a hybrid approach combining deep learning with probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) that acts as a surrogate for physics-based representations of multiscale and multiphysics systems. GINNs address the twin challenges of removing intrinsic computational bottlenecks in physics-based models and generating large data sets for estimating probability distributions of quantities of interest (QoIs) with a high degree of confidence. Both the selection of the complex physics learned by the NN and its supervised learning/prediction are informed by the PGM, which includes the formulation of structured priors for tunable control variables (CVs) to account for their mutual correlations and ensure physically sound CV and QoI distributions. GINNs accelerate the prediction of QoIs essential for simulation-based decision-making where generating sufficient sample data using physics-based models alone is often prohibitively expensive. Using a real-world application grounded in supercapacitor-based energy storage, we describe the construction of GINNs from a Bayesian network-embedded homogenized model for supercapacitor dynamics, and demonstrate their ability to produce kernel density estimates of relevant non-Gaussian, skewed QoIs with tight confidence intervals.
Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are effective in solving integer-order partial differential equations (PDEs) based on scattered and noisy data. PINNs employ standard feedforward neural networks (NNs) with the PDEs explicitly encoded into the NN using automatic differentiation, while the sum of the mean-squared PDE-residuals and the mean-squared error in initial/boundary conditions is minimized with respect to the NN parameters. We extend PINNs to fractional PINNs (fPINNs) to solve space-time fractional advection-diffusion equations (fractional ADEs), and we demonstrate their accuracy and effectiveness in solving multi-dimensional forward and inverse problems with forcing terms whose values are only known at randomly scattered spatio-temporal coordinates (black-box forcing terms). A novel element of the fPINNs is the hybrid approach that we introduce for constructing the residual in the loss function using both automatic differentiation for the integer-order operators and numerical discretization for the fractional operators. We consider 1D time-dependent fractional ADEs and compare white-box (WB) and black-box (BB) forcing. We observe that for the BB forcing fPINNs outperform FDM. Subsequently, we consider multi-dimensional time-, space-, and space-time-fractional ADEs using the directional fractional Laplacian and we observe relative errors of $10^{-4}$. Finally, we solve several inverse problems in 1D, 2D, and 3D to identify the fractional orders, diffusion coefficients, and transport velocities and obtain accurate results even in the presence of significant noise.
Multifidelity simulation methodologies are often used in an attempt to judiciously combine low-fidelity and high-fidelity simulation results in an accuracy-increasing, cost-saving way. Candidates for this approach are simulation methodologies for which there are fidelity differences connected with significant computational cost differences. Physics-informed Neural Networks (PINNs) are candidates for these types of approaches due to the significant difference in training times required when different fidelities (expressed in terms of architecture width and depth as well as optimization criteria) are employed. In this paper, we propose a particular multifidelity approach applied to PINNs that exploits low-rank structure. We demonstrate that width, depth, and optimization criteria can be used as parameters related to model fidelity, and show numerical justification of cost differences in training due to fidelity parameter choices. We test our multifidelity scheme on various canonical forward PDE models that have been presented in the emerging PINNs literature.
Physics-informed neural network (PINN) is a data-driven approach to solve equations. It is successful in many applications; however, the accuracy of the PINN is not satisfactory when it is used to solve multiscale equations. Homogenization is a way of approximating a multiscale equation by a homogenized equation without multiscale property; it includes solving cell problems and the homogenized equation. The cell problems are periodic; and we propose an oversampling strategy which greatly improves the PINN accuracy on periodic problems. The homogenized equation has constant or slow dependency coefficient and can also be solved by PINN accurately. We hence proposed a 3-step method to improve the PINN accuracy for solving multiscale problems with the help of the homogenization. We apply our method to solve three equations which represent three different homogenization. The results show that the proposed method greatly improves the PINN accuracy. Besides, we also find that the PINN aided homogenization may achieve better accuracy than the numerical methods driven homogenization; PINN hence is a potential alternative to implementing the homogenization.
Recently, researchers have utilized neural networks to accurately solve partial differential equations (PDEs), enabling the mesh-free method for scientific computation. Unfortunately, the network performance drops when encountering a high nonlinearity domain. To improve the generalizability, we introduce the novel approach of employing multi-task learning techniques, the uncertainty-weighting loss and the gradients surgery, in the context of learning PDE solutions. The multi-task scheme exploits the benefits of learning shared representations, controlled by cross-stitch modules, between multiple related PDEs, which are obtainable by varying the PDE parameterization coefficients, to generalize better on the original PDE. Encouraging the network pay closer attention to the high nonlinearity domain regions that are more challenging to learn, we also propose adversarial training for generating supplementary high-loss samples, similarly distributed to the original training distribution. In the experiments, our proposed methods are found to be effective and reduce the error on the unseen data points as compared to the previous approaches in various PDE examples, including high-dimensional stochastic PDEs.
Physics Informed Neural Network (PINN) is a scientific computing framework used to solve both forward and inverse problems modeled by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). This paper introduces IDRLnet, a Python toolbox for modeling and solving problems through PINN systematically. IDRLnet constructs the framework for a wide range of PINN algorithms and applications. It provides a structured way to incorporate geometric objects, data sources, artificial neural networks, loss metrics, and optimizers within Python. Furthermore, it provides functionality to solve noisy inverse problems, variational minimization, and integral differential equations. New PINN variants can be integrated into the framework easily. Source code, tutorials, and documentation are available at url{https://github.com/idrl-lab/idrlnet}.