Summary of Dual Cone Gradient Descent For Training Physics-informed Neural Networks, by Youngsik Hwang et al.
Dual Cone Gradient Descent for Training Physics-Informed Neural Networks
by Youngsik Hwang, Dong-Young Lim
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP); Numerical Analysis (math.NA); Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach to physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) is proposed to address issues with pathological behavior and imbalance in gradients. PINNs are a prominent method for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), but their empirical performance can be limited by the combined loss function, which incorporates both boundary loss and PDE residual loss. The authors identify that PINNs can be adversely trained when gradients exhibit significant imbalances and propose Dual Cone Gradient Descent (DCGD) to adjust the direction of the updated gradient within a dual cone region. This region ensures non-negative inner products with both gradients, leading to improved convergence properties in non-convex settings. Experimental results demonstrate DCGD outperforms other optimization algorithms on various benchmark equations, achieving superior predictive accuracy and stability. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new way to make physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) work better is developed. PINNs are a type of artificial intelligence that helps solve complex math problems called partial differential equations (PDEs). However, they can sometimes produce bad results because the way they’re trained is not perfect. The authors found that this issue happens when the gradients (directions) of the two parts of the training process are very different in magnitude and opposite in direction. They created a new method called Dual Cone Gradient Descent (DCGD) to fix this problem. This method makes sure the directions are balanced, which leads to better results. The authors tested their approach on many examples and found that it works much better than other methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gradient descent » Loss function » Optimization
