Article ; Online: Solving inverse problems in physics by optimizing a discrete loss: Fast and accurate learning without neural networks.
PNAS nexus
2024 Volume 3, Issue 1, Page(s) pgae005
Abstract: In recent years, advances in computing hardware and computational methods have prompted a wealth of activities for solving inverse problems in physics. These problems are often described by systems of partial differential equations (PDEs). The advent of ... ...
| Abstract | In recent years, advances in computing hardware and computational methods have prompted a wealth of activities for solving inverse problems in physics. These problems are often described by systems of partial differential equations (PDEs). The advent of machine learning has reinvigorated the interest in solving inverse problems using neural networks (NNs). In these efforts, the solution of the PDEs is expressed as NNs trained through the minimization of a loss function involving the PDE. Here, we show how to accelerate this approach by five orders of magnitude by deploying, instead of NNs, conventional PDE approximations. The framework of optimizing a discrete loss (ODIL) minimizes a cost function for discrete approximations of the PDEs using gradient-based and Newton's methods. The framework relies on grid-based discretizations of PDEs and inherits their accuracy, convergence, and conservation properties. The implementation of the method is facilitated by adopting machine-learning tools for automatic differentiation. We also propose a multigrid technique to accelerate the convergence of gradient-based optimizers. We present applications to PDE-constrained optimization, optical flow, system identification, and data assimilation. We compare ODIL with the popular method of physics-informed neural networks and show that it outperforms it by several orders of magnitude in computational speed while having better accuracy and convergence rates. We evaluate ODIL on inverse problems involving linear and nonlinear PDEs including the Navier-Stokes equations for flow reconstruction problems. ODIL bridges numerical methods and machine learning and presents a powerful tool for solving challenging, inverse problems across scientific domains. |
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| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2024-01-11 |
| Publishing country | England |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ISSN | 2752-6542 |
| ISSN (online) | 2752-6542 |
| DOI | 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae005 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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