Strategies for Pretraining Neural Operators

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Autores principales: Zhou, Anthony, Lorsung, Cooper, Hemmasian, AmirPouya, Farimani, Amir Barati
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author Zhou, Anthony
Lorsung, Cooper
Hemmasian, AmirPouya
Farimani, Amir Barati
author_facet Zhou, Anthony
Lorsung, Cooper
Hemmasian, AmirPouya
Farimani, Amir Barati
contents Pretraining for partial differential equation (PDE) modeling has recently shown promise in scaling neural operators across datasets to improve generalizability and performance. Despite these advances, our understanding of how pretraining affects neural operators is still limited; studies generally propose tailored architectures and datasets that make it challenging to compare or examine different pretraining frameworks. To address this, we compare various pretraining methods without optimizing architecture choices to characterize pretraining dynamics on different models and datasets as well as to understand its scaling and generalization behavior. We find that pretraining is highly dependent on model and dataset choices, but in general transfer learning or physics-based pretraining strategies work best. In addition, pretraining performance can be further improved by using data augmentations. Lastly, pretraining can be additionally beneficial when fine-tuning in scarce data regimes or when generalizing to downstream data similar to the pretraining distribution. Through providing insights into pretraining neural operators for physics prediction, we hope to motivate future work in developing and evaluating pretraining methods for PDEs.
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spellingShingle Strategies for Pretraining Neural Operators
Zhou, Anthony
Lorsung, Cooper
Hemmasian, AmirPouya
Farimani, Amir Barati
Machine Learning
Pretraining for partial differential equation (PDE) modeling has recently shown promise in scaling neural operators across datasets to improve generalizability and performance. Despite these advances, our understanding of how pretraining affects neural operators is still limited; studies generally propose tailored architectures and datasets that make it challenging to compare or examine different pretraining frameworks. To address this, we compare various pretraining methods without optimizing architecture choices to characterize pretraining dynamics on different models and datasets as well as to understand its scaling and generalization behavior. We find that pretraining is highly dependent on model and dataset choices, but in general transfer learning or physics-based pretraining strategies work best. In addition, pretraining performance can be further improved by using data augmentations. Lastly, pretraining can be additionally beneficial when fine-tuning in scarce data regimes or when generalizing to downstream data similar to the pretraining distribution. Through providing insights into pretraining neural operators for physics prediction, we hope to motivate future work in developing and evaluating pretraining methods for PDEs.
title Strategies for Pretraining Neural Operators
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08473