Summary of Data-efficient Operator Learning Via Unsupervised Pretraining and In-context Learning, by Wuyang Chen et al.
Data-Efficient Operator Learning via Unsupervised Pretraining and In-Context Learning
by Wuyang Chen, Jialin Song, Pu Ren, Shashank Subramanian, Dmitriy Morozov, Michael W. Mahoney
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes an unsupervised pretraining method for learning PDE operators, aiming to reduce the need for expensive numerical simulations. By leveraging unlabeled PDE data without simulated solutions, the approach learns neural operators through physics-inspired reconstruction-based proxy tasks. To improve out-of-distribution performance, a similarity-based method is used to learn in-context examples without additional training costs or designs. The results show that this method is highly data-efficient and generalizable, even surpassing conventional vision-pretrained models on a diverse set of PDEs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps solve scientific problems by combining machine learning with physical insights from partial differential equations (PDEs). Usually, these methods need lots of PDE data, which requires expensive simulations. To avoid this, the authors develop an unsupervised way to learn PDE operators using unlabeled data without simulated solutions. This makes it more efficient and effective in solving real-world problems. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Machine learning * Pretraining * Unsupervised
