Summary of Self-supervised Pretraining For Partial Differential Equations, by Varun Madhavan and Amal S Sebastian and Bharath Ramsundar and Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan
Self-supervised Pretraining for Partial Differential Equations
by Varun Madhavan, Amal S Sebastian, Bharath Ramsundar, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Jul 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 This novel approach leverages transformer-based neural networks to build a PDE solver that can provide solutions for various values of PDE parameters without retraining. The training is self-supervised, similar to language and vision tasks, and hypothesized to learn a family of operators mapping initial conditions to PDE solutions at future time steps t. Compared to the Fourier Neural Operator (FNO), this approach generalizes over PDE parameters, albeit with higher prediction errors for individual values. Finetuning improves performance on specific parameters using small amounts of data, and the model scales with data and size. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research creates a new way to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) using powerful neural networks. The model can work with different PDE settings without needing to retrain, which is useful for many real-world problems. The training process is similar to what’s used in language and vision tasks. While the results are not perfect, they show that this approach can be useful for solving PDEs. With a little extra data and fine-tuning, the model can even improve its performance. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Fine tuning * Self supervised * Transformer
