PI-JEPA: Label-Free Surrogate Pretraining for Coupled Multiphysics Simulation via Operator-Split Latent Prediction

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Main Authors: Yee, Brandon, Koh, Pairie
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Published: 2026
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author Yee, Brandon
Koh, Pairie
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Koh, Pairie
contents Reservoir simulation workflows face a fundamental data asymmetry: input parameter fields (geostatistical permeability realizations, porosity distributions) are free to generate in arbitrary quantities, yet existing neural operator surrogates require large corpora of expensive labeled simulation trajectories and cannot exploit this unlabeled structure. We introduce \textbf{PI-JEPA} (Physics-Informed Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture), a surrogate pretraining framework that trains \emph{without any completed PDE solves}, using masked latent prediction on unlabeled parameter fields under per-sub-operator PDE residual regularization. The predictor bank is structurally aligned with the Lie--Trotter operator-splitting decomposition of the governing equations, dedicating a separate physics-constrained latent module to each sub-process (pressure, saturation transport, reaction), enabling fine-tuning with as few as 100 labeled simulation runs. On single-phase Darcy flow, PI-JEPA achieves $1.9\times$ lower error than FNO and $2.4\times$ lower error than DeepONet at $N_\ell{=}100$, with 24\% improvement over supervised-only training at $N_\ell{=}500$, demonstrating that label-free surrogate pretraining substantially reduces the simulation budget required for multiphysics surrogate deployment.
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spellingShingle PI-JEPA: Label-Free Surrogate Pretraining for Coupled Multiphysics Simulation via Operator-Split Latent Prediction
Yee, Brandon
Koh, Pairie
Machine Learning
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Computational Physics
Reservoir simulation workflows face a fundamental data asymmetry: input parameter fields (geostatistical permeability realizations, porosity distributions) are free to generate in arbitrary quantities, yet existing neural operator surrogates require large corpora of expensive labeled simulation trajectories and cannot exploit this unlabeled structure. We introduce \textbf{PI-JEPA} (Physics-Informed Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture), a surrogate pretraining framework that trains \emph{without any completed PDE solves}, using masked latent prediction on unlabeled parameter fields under per-sub-operator PDE residual regularization. The predictor bank is structurally aligned with the Lie--Trotter operator-splitting decomposition of the governing equations, dedicating a separate physics-constrained latent module to each sub-process (pressure, saturation transport, reaction), enabling fine-tuning with as few as 100 labeled simulation runs. On single-phase Darcy flow, PI-JEPA achieves $1.9\times$ lower error than FNO and $2.4\times$ lower error than DeepONet at $N_\ell{=}100$, with 24\% improvement over supervised-only training at $N_\ell{=}500$, demonstrating that label-free surrogate pretraining substantially reduces the simulation budget required for multiphysics surrogate deployment.
title PI-JEPA: Label-Free Surrogate Pretraining for Coupled Multiphysics Simulation via Operator-Split Latent Prediction
topic Machine Learning
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01349