DTE AICCOMAS 2025

When big neural networks are not enough: physics, multifidelity and kernels

  • Howard, Amanda (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
  • Chen, Wenqian (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
  • Qadeer, Saad (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
  • Stinis, Panos (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

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Modern machine learning has shown remarkable promise in multiple applications. However, brute force use of neural networks, even when they have huge numbers of trainable parameters, can fail to provide highly accurate predictions for problems in the physical sciences. We present a collection of ideas about how enforcing physics, exploiting multifidelity knowledge and the kernel representation of neural networks can lead to significant increase in efficiency and/or accuracy. Various examples are used to illustrate the ideas.