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MetaPhysiCa: Improving OOD Robustness in Physics-informed Machine Learning

S Chandra Mouli · Muhammad Alam · Bruno Ribeiro

Halle B #24
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Fri 10 May 7:30 a.m. PDT — 9:30 a.m. PDT

Abstract: A fundamental challenge in physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is the design of robust PIML methods for out-of-distribution (OOD) forecasting tasks. These OOD tasks require learning-to-learn from observations of the same (ODE) dynamical system with different unknown ODE parameters, and demand accurate forecasts even under out-of-support initial conditions and out-of-support ODE parameters. In this work we propose to improve the OOD robustness of PIML via a meta-learning procedure for causal structure discovery. Using three different OOD tasks, we empirically observe that the proposed approach significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art PIML and deep learning methods (with $2\times$ to $28\times$ lower OOD errors).

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