Summary of Beyond Closure Models: Learning Chaotic-systems Via Physics-informed Neural Operators, by Chuwei Wang et al.
Beyond Closure Models: Learning Chaotic-Systems via Physics-Informed Neural Operators
by Chuwei Wang, Julius Berner, Zongyi Li, Di Zhou, Jiayun Wang, Jane Bae, Anima Anandkumar
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The authors of this paper tackle the challenge of accurately predicting the long-term behavior of chaotic systems, which is crucial for applications like climate modeling. They propose an alternative approach to traditional full-resolved simulations using a coarse grid and correcting errors through a closure model, but they also show that standard ML approaches to learning closure models suffer from a large approximation error due to non-uniqueness. To overcome this limitation, the authors introduce a physics-informed neural operator (PINO) that can provably approximate long-term statistics of chaotic systems without using a closure model or coarse-grid solver. The PINO model is trained on data from a coarse-grid solver and fine-tuned with physics-based losses on a fine grid, achieving a 330x speedup compared to full-resolved simulations while maintaining a relative error of around 10%. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper’s main goal is to find a way to predict the behavior of chaotic systems without needing to do complex calculations. The authors show that traditional approaches aren’t very good at this and propose a new method using something called a physics-informed neural operator (PINO). This model can learn from less data and still give good results, making it much faster than the old way. |
