Data-Efficient Neural Operator Training via Physics-Based Active Learning

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Autori principali: Polanska, Alicja, Zanisi, Lorenzo, Gopakumar, Vignesh, Pamela, Stanislas
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author Polanska, Alicja
Zanisi, Lorenzo
Gopakumar, Vignesh
Pamela, Stanislas
author_facet Polanska, Alicja
Zanisi, Lorenzo
Gopakumar, Vignesh
Pamela, Stanislas
contents Solving partial differential equations with neural operators significantly reduces computational costs but remains bottlenecked by high training data requirements. Active learning offers a natural framework to mitigate this by selectively acquiring the most informative samples in an iterative manner. We introduce physics-based acquisition - a novel physics-informed active learning algorithm that leverages the partial differential equation residual to guide data selection. We validate the method by presenting numerical experiments for the 1D Burgers equation and the 2D compressible Navier-Stokes equations. We show that, in our experiments, physics-based acquisition consistently outperforms random acquisition and matches the state of the art in data efficiency. At the same time, it has the unique advantage of injecting a physics inductive bias into the training process, ensuring that simulation cost is spent where the model's physical understanding is weakest.
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spellingShingle Data-Efficient Neural Operator Training via Physics-Based Active Learning
Polanska, Alicja
Zanisi, Lorenzo
Gopakumar, Vignesh
Pamela, Stanislas
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Numerical Analysis
Computational Physics
Solving partial differential equations with neural operators significantly reduces computational costs but remains bottlenecked by high training data requirements. Active learning offers a natural framework to mitigate this by selectively acquiring the most informative samples in an iterative manner. We introduce physics-based acquisition - a novel physics-informed active learning algorithm that leverages the partial differential equation residual to guide data selection. We validate the method by presenting numerical experiments for the 1D Burgers equation and the 2D compressible Navier-Stokes equations. We show that, in our experiments, physics-based acquisition consistently outperforms random acquisition and matches the state of the art in data efficiency. At the same time, it has the unique advantage of injecting a physics inductive bias into the training process, ensuring that simulation cost is spent where the model's physical understanding is weakest.
title Data-Efficient Neural Operator Training via Physics-Based Active Learning
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Numerical Analysis
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21348