LIGO-PINN: Learned Initialization via Gated Optimization to Alleviate Convergence Failures in Physics Informed Neural Networks
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Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have had a broad research impact in modeling domains governed by partial differential equations (PDE). However, PINNs have been shown to perform poorly, sometimes even converging to trivial solutions, in challenging PDE domains, or when generalizing to unseen but related PDE domains. Previously proposed solutions detail hyperparameter tuning to reduce loss imbalance between data-driven and physics guided losses, curriculum learning based training strategies, or dynamic re-sampling of hard collocation points. These methods face certain pitfalls: hyperparameter tuning is expensive, designing a training curriculum is ambiguous in multi-parameter PDE settings, and dynamic resampling still fails in complex PDE settings. Complementary to this line of thinking, we believe the initial PINN network weights also play a crucial role in the emergence of catastrophic failures during training, yet the effect of PINN weight initialization has been surprisingly under-investigated. To this end, we propose a framework for Learned Initialization via Gated Layerwise Optimization (LIGO-PINN) to overcome PINN convergence failures. Through rigorous evaluation on 1D and 2D PDE domains, including a challenging 2D fluid dynamics setting, we demonstrate that our methodology outperforms state-of-the-art methods designed to alleviate PINN failures, achieving a 91.5% average performance improvement across six baselines and 81% over the strongest baseline. We also verify that LIGO-PINN generalizes to 3D unstructured domains. Finally, we analyze training dynamics across all three PDE domains to explain both LIGO-PINN's improvement and the convergence failure of traditional PINNs. Code: https://github.com/scailab/ligo-pinn Keywords: Machine Learning, Physics-Informed Neural Networks, Deep Learning, PDE Modeling
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