@inproceedings{
huang2024physicsinformed,
title={Physics-Informed Regularization for Domain-Agnostic Dynamical System Modeling},
author={Zijie Huang and Wanjia Zhao and Jingdong Gao and Ziniu Hu and Xiao Luo and Yadi Cao and Yuanzhou Chen and Yizhou Sun and Wei Wang},
booktitle={The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=iWlqbNE8P7}
}
Learning complex physical dynamics purely from data is challenging due to the intrinsic properties of systems to be satisfied. Incorporating physics-informed priors, such as in Hamiltonian Neural Networks (HNNs), achieves high-precision modeling for energy-conservative systems. However, real-world systems often deviate from strict energy conservation and follow different physical priors. To address this, we present a framework that achieves high-precision modeling for a wide range of dynamical systems from the numerical aspect, by enforcing Time-Reversal Symmetry (TRS) via a novel regularization term. It helps preserve energies for conservative systems while serving as a strong inductive bias for non-conservative, reversible systems. While TRS is a domain-specific physical prior, we present the first theoretical proof that TRS loss can universally improve modeling accuracy by minimizing higher-order Taylor terms in ODE integration, which is numerically beneficial to various systems regardless of their properties, even for irreversible systems. By integrating the TRS loss within neural ordinary differential equation models, the proposed model TREAT demonstrates superior performance on diverse physical systems. It achieves a significant 11.5% MSE improvement in a challenging chaotic triple-pendulum scenario, underscoring TREAT’s broad applicability and effectiveness.
Physics-Informed Regularization for Domain-Agnostic Dynamical System Modeling
Zijie Huang Wanjia Zhao Jingdong Gao Ziniu Hu Xiao Luo Yadi Cao Yuanzhou Chen Yizhou Sun Wei Wang