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Self-Supervised Learning with Lie Symmetries for Partial Differential Equations

11 Jul 2023NeurIPS 2023 11arXiv:2307.05432archive 2025-07-28

Grégoire Mialon, Quentin Garrido, Hannah Lawrence, Danyal Rehman, Yann Lecun, Bobak T. Kiani

Machine learning for differential equations paves the way for computationally efficient alternatives to numerical solvers, with potentially broad impacts in science and engineering. Though current algorithms typically require simulated training data tailored to a given setting, one may instead wish to learn useful information from heterogeneous sources, or from real dynamical systems observations that are messy or incomplete. In this work, we learn general-purpose representations of PDEs from heterogeneous data by implementing joint embedding methods for self-supervised learning (SSL), a framework for unsupervised representation learning that has had notable success in computer vision. Our representation outperforms baseline approaches to invariant tasks, such as regressing the coefficients of a PDE, while also improving the time-stepping performance of neural solvers. We hope that our proposed methodology will prove useful in the eventual development of general-purpose foundation models for PDEs. Code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/SSLForPDEs.

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