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Autori principali: Zhu, Congcong, Xu, Xiaoyan, Han, Jiayue, Chen, Jingrun
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10930
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author Zhu, Congcong
Xu, Xiaoyan
Han, Jiayue
Chen, Jingrun
author_facet Zhu, Congcong
Xu, Xiaoyan
Han, Jiayue
Chen, Jingrun
contents Auto-regressive partial differential equation (PDE) foundation models have shown great potential in handling time-dependent data. However, these models suffer from the shortcut problem deeply rooted in auto-regressive prediction, causing error accumulation. The challenge becomes particularly evident for out-of-distribution data, as the pretraining performance may approach random model initialization for downstream tasks with long-term dynamics. To deal with this problem, we propose physics-informed temporal alignment (PITA), a self-supervised learning framework inspired by inverse problem solving. Specifically, PITA aligns the physical dynamics discovered at different time steps on each given PDE trajectory by integrating physics-informed constraints into the self-supervision signal. The alignment is derived from observation data without relying on known physics priors, indicating strong generalization ability to the out-of-distribution data. Extensive experiments show that PITA significantly enhances the accuracy and robustness of existing foundation models on diverse time-dependent PDE data. The code is available at https://github.com/SCAILab-USTC/PITA.
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spellingShingle Physics-informed Temporal Alignment for Auto-regressive PDE Foundation Models
Zhu, Congcong
Xu, Xiaoyan
Han, Jiayue
Chen, Jingrun
Machine Learning
35Q68
G.1.8
Auto-regressive partial differential equation (PDE) foundation models have shown great potential in handling time-dependent data. However, these models suffer from the shortcut problem deeply rooted in auto-regressive prediction, causing error accumulation. The challenge becomes particularly evident for out-of-distribution data, as the pretraining performance may approach random model initialization for downstream tasks with long-term dynamics. To deal with this problem, we propose physics-informed temporal alignment (PITA), a self-supervised learning framework inspired by inverse problem solving. Specifically, PITA aligns the physical dynamics discovered at different time steps on each given PDE trajectory by integrating physics-informed constraints into the self-supervision signal. The alignment is derived from observation data without relying on known physics priors, indicating strong generalization ability to the out-of-distribution data. Extensive experiments show that PITA significantly enhances the accuracy and robustness of existing foundation models on diverse time-dependent PDE data. The code is available at https://github.com/SCAILab-USTC/PITA.
title Physics-informed Temporal Alignment for Auto-regressive PDE Foundation Models
topic Machine Learning
35Q68
G.1.8
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10930