Characteristic Performance Study on Solving Oscillator ODEs via Soft-constrained Physics-informed Neural Network with Small Data
<|reference_start|>Characteristic Performance Study on Solving Oscillator ODEs via Soft-constrained Physics-informed Neural Network with Small Data: This paper compared physics-informed neural network (PINN), conventional neural network (NN) and traditional numerical discretization methods on solving differential equations (DEs) through literature investigation and experimental validation. We focused on the soft-constrained PINN approach and formalized its mathematical framework and computational flow for solving Ordinary DEs and Partial DEs (ODEs/PDEs). The working mechanism and its accuracy and efficiency were experimentally verified by solving typical linear and non-linear oscillator ODEs. We demonstrate that the DeepXDE-based implementation of PINN is not only light code and efficient in training, but also flexible across CPU/GPU platforms. PINN greatly reduces the need for labeled data: when the nonlinearity of the ODE is weak, a very small amount of supervised training data plus a few unsupervised collocation points are sufficient to predict the solution; in the minimalist case, only one or two training points (with initial values) are needed for first- or second-order ODEs, respectively. We also find that, with the aid of collocation points and the use of physical information, PINN has the ability to extrapolate data outside the time domain of the training set, and especially is robust to noisy data, thus with enhanced generalization capabilities. Training is accelerated when the gains obtained along with the reduction in the amount of data outweigh the delay caused by the increase in the loss function terms. The soft-constrained PINN can easily impose a physical law (e.g., conservation of energy) constraint by adding a regularization term to the total loss function, thus improving the solution performance to ODEs that obey this physical law. Furthermore, PINN can also be used for stiff ODEs, PDEs, and other types of DEs, and is becoming a favorable catalyst for the era of Digital Twins.<|reference_end|>
@article{lu2024characteristic,
    title={Characteristic Performance Study on Solving Oscillator ODEs via
  Soft-constrained Physics-informed Neural Network with Small Data},
    author={Kai-liang Lu, Yu-meng Su, Zhuo Bi, Cheng Qiu, Wen-jun Zhang},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.11077},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2408.11077},
    primaryClass={cs.LG cs.CV stat.ML}
}