Fast training of accurate physics-informed neural networks without gradient descent

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Main Authors: Datar, Chinmay, Kapoor, Taniya, Chandra, Abhishek, Sun, Qing, Bolager, Erik Lien, Burak, Iryna, Veselovska, Anna, Fornasier, Massimo, Dietrich, Felix
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author Datar, Chinmay
Kapoor, Taniya
Chandra, Abhishek
Sun, Qing
Bolager, Erik Lien
Burak, Iryna
Veselovska, Anna
Fornasier, Massimo
Dietrich, Felix
author_facet Datar, Chinmay
Kapoor, Taniya
Chandra, Abhishek
Sun, Qing
Bolager, Erik Lien
Burak, Iryna
Veselovska, Anna
Fornasier, Massimo
Dietrich, Felix
contents Solving time-dependent Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) is one of the most critical problems in computational science. While Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) offer a promising framework for approximating PDE solutions, their accuracy and training speed are limited by two core barriers: gradient-descent-based iterative optimization over complex loss landscapes and non-causal treatment of time as an extra spatial dimension. We present Frozen-PINN, a novel PINN based on the principle of space-time separation that leverages random features instead of training with gradient descent, and incorporates temporal causality by construction. On eight PDE benchmarks, including challenges such as extreme advection speeds, shocks, and high dimensionality, Frozen-PINNs achieve superior training efficiency and accuracy over state-of-the-art PINNs, often by several orders of magnitude. Our work addresses longstanding training and accuracy bottlenecks of PINNs, delivering quickly trainable, highly accurate, and inherently causal PDE solvers, a combination that prior methods could not realize. Our approach challenges the reliance of PINNs on stochastic gradient-descent-based methods and specialized hardware, leading to a paradigm shift in PINN training and providing a challenging benchmark for the community.
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spellingShingle Fast training of accurate physics-informed neural networks without gradient descent
Datar, Chinmay
Kapoor, Taniya
Chandra, Abhishek
Sun, Qing
Bolager, Erik Lien
Burak, Iryna
Veselovska, Anna
Fornasier, Massimo
Dietrich, Felix
Numerical Analysis
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Machine Learning
Solving time-dependent Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) is one of the most critical problems in computational science. While Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) offer a promising framework for approximating PDE solutions, their accuracy and training speed are limited by two core barriers: gradient-descent-based iterative optimization over complex loss landscapes and non-causal treatment of time as an extra spatial dimension. We present Frozen-PINN, a novel PINN based on the principle of space-time separation that leverages random features instead of training with gradient descent, and incorporates temporal causality by construction. On eight PDE benchmarks, including challenges such as extreme advection speeds, shocks, and high dimensionality, Frozen-PINNs achieve superior training efficiency and accuracy over state-of-the-art PINNs, often by several orders of magnitude. Our work addresses longstanding training and accuracy bottlenecks of PINNs, delivering quickly trainable, highly accurate, and inherently causal PDE solvers, a combination that prior methods could not realize. Our approach challenges the reliance of PINNs on stochastic gradient-descent-based methods and specialized hardware, leading to a paradigm shift in PINN training and providing a challenging benchmark for the community.
title Fast training of accurate physics-informed neural networks without gradient descent
topic Numerical Analysis
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20836