用隐变量生成框架统一求解多相介质的正反问题,保持物理精度且支持梯度优化。
GenPANIS: A Latent-Variable Generative Framework for Forward and Inverse PDE Problems in Multiphase Media
- 通过连续隐变量建模离散材料结构,实现正反问题统一求解
- 在稀疏噪声观测下仍可准确外推至未见边界条件与微观形貌
- 参数量仅为现有方法的1/10到1/100,适合实际工程反设计
多相介质中的反问题与反向设计(即根据目标宏观响应恢复或设计微观结构)需处理离散材料场,导致问题不可微,难以使用梯度方法。现有方法要么采用连续近似牺牲物理保真度,要么为正反任务分别构建复杂模型。我们提出GenPANIS,一种统一的生成框架,在保持精确离散微观结构的同时,通过连续隐变量实现梯度驱动推理。该模型学习微观结构与PDE解的联合分布,支持单架构内双向推理(正向预测与反向恢复)。生成式设定允许使用无标签数据、物理残差和极少标注对进行训练。一个融合可微粗粒度PDE求解器的物理感知解码器,保留控制方程结构,实现对不同边界条件和微观统计特性的外推。可学习的归一化流先验捕捉逆问题复杂后验结构。在达西流和赫姆霍兹方程上验证,GenPANIS在挑战性外推场景中保持高精度——包括未见过的边界条件、体积分数和微观形态,且观测稀疏、含噪。相比最先进方法性能更优,参数量减少10至100倍,并提供合理的不确定性量化。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Inverse problems and inverse design in multiphase media, i.e., recovering or engineering microstructures to achieve target macroscopic responses, require operating on discrete-valued material fields, rendering the problem non-differentiable and incompatible with gradient-based methods. Existing approaches either relax to continuous approximations, compromising physical fidelity, or employ separate heavyweight models for forward and inverse tasks. We propose GenPANIS, a unified generative framework that preserves exact discrete microstructures while enabling gradient-based inference through continuous latent embeddings. The model learns a joint distribution over microstructures and PDE solutions, supporting bidirectional inference (forward prediction and inverse recovery) within a single architecture. The generative formulation enables training with unlabeled data, physics residuals, and minimal labeled pairs. A physics-aware decoder incorporating a differentiable coarse-grained PDE solver preserves governing equation structure, enabling extrapolation to varying boundary conditions and microstructural statistics. A learnable normalizing flow prior captures complex posterior structure for inverse problems. Demonstrated on Darcy flow and Helmholtz equations, GenPANIS maintains accuracy on challenging extrapolative scenarios - including unseen boundary conditions, volume fractions, and microstructural morphologies, with sparse, noisy observations. It outperforms state-of-the-art methods while using 10 - 100 times fewer parameters and providing principled uncertainty quantification.
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