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| author | Setinek, Paul Galletti, Gianluca Gross, Thomas Schnürer, Dominik Brandstetter, Johannes Zellinger, Werner |
| author_facet | Setinek, Paul Galletti, Gianluca Gross, Thomas Schnürer, Dominik Brandstetter, Johannes Zellinger, Werner |
| contents | Neural surrogates for Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) often suffer significant performance degradation when evaluated on problem configurations outside their training distribution, such as new initial conditions or structural dimensions. While Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) techniques have been widely used in vision and language to generalize across domains without additional labeled data, their application to complex engineering simulations remains largely unexplored. In this work, we address this gap through two focused contributions. First, we introduce SIMSHIFT, a novel benchmark dataset and evaluation suite composed of four industrial simulation tasks spanning diverse processes and physics: hot rolling, sheet metal forming, electric motor design and heatsink design. Second, we extend established UDA methods to state-of-the-art neural surrogates and systematically evaluate them. Extensive experiments on SIMSHIFT highlight the challenges of out-of-distribution neural surrogate modeling, demonstrate the potential of UDA in simulation, and reveal open problems in achieving robust neural surrogates under distribution shifts in industrially relevant scenarios. Our codebase is available at https://github.com/psetinek/simshift |
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| spellingShingle | SIMSHIFT: A Benchmark for Adapting Neural Surrogates to Distribution Shifts Setinek, Paul Galletti, Gianluca Gross, Thomas Schnürer, Dominik Brandstetter, Johannes Zellinger, Werner Machine Learning Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Computational Physics Neural surrogates for Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) often suffer significant performance degradation when evaluated on problem configurations outside their training distribution, such as new initial conditions or structural dimensions. While Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) techniques have been widely used in vision and language to generalize across domains without additional labeled data, their application to complex engineering simulations remains largely unexplored. In this work, we address this gap through two focused contributions. First, we introduce SIMSHIFT, a novel benchmark dataset and evaluation suite composed of four industrial simulation tasks spanning diverse processes and physics: hot rolling, sheet metal forming, electric motor design and heatsink design. Second, we extend established UDA methods to state-of-the-art neural surrogates and systematically evaluate them. Extensive experiments on SIMSHIFT highlight the challenges of out-of-distribution neural surrogate modeling, demonstrate the potential of UDA in simulation, and reveal open problems in achieving robust neural surrogates under distribution shifts in industrially relevant scenarios. Our codebase is available at https://github.com/psetinek/simshift |
| title | SIMSHIFT: A Benchmark for Adapting Neural Surrogates to Distribution Shifts |
| topic | Machine Learning Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12007 |