arXiv:2604.06534eess.SPeess.IV2026-04

提出新方法评估传感器重要性,提升物理模型逆问题的重建精度

FOSSA: First-Order Optimality-Based Sensor Selection for PINN Inverse Problems, with Application to Electrocardiographic Imaging

  • 基于一阶最优性条件,在训练后一次性评估所有传感器重要性
  • 实验证明部分传感器会降低重建精度,非越多越好
  • 适合需要高效部署传感器的医学成像等物理建模场景

物理信息神经网络(PINN)已成为建模物理系统和求解逆问题的强大框架。在该类问题中,传感器用于采集可观测系统响应;然而,重建质量高度依赖于传感器的选择。现有针对PINN的传感器选择策略多基于主动学习与实验设计,通常采用迭代添加传感器并重新训练的方案。尽管在数据有限时有效,但因需重复训练而计算成本高昂,且主要聚焦于传感器子集选择,缺乏对传感器重要性的全局刻画。本文提出一种基于一阶最优性的传感器选择算法FOSSA,用于逆PINN问题。与现有方法不同,FOSSA在模型训练完成后进行评估,仅需一次训练即可完成全部传感器重要性评分。其依据收敛时的一阶最优性条件,为所有候选传感位置分配重要性分数。为进一步提升鲁棒性,还引入了修正方案以处理反演求解器的不稳定性。该方法可实现对每个传感器贡献的全局评估。我们在逆心电图(ECG)建模任务上验证了该方法,发现并非所有传感器均能提升预测性能;引入低重要性传感器反而会降低重建精度。这些结果凸显了合理评估传感器重要性的必要性,并为物理信息逆建模中的传感器部署提供了可扩展的指导路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a powerful framework for modeling physical systems and solving inverse problems. In such settings, sensors are deployed to capture observable system responses; however, the quality of reconstruction critically depends on how these sensors are selected. Existing sensor selection strategies for PINNs are closely related to active learning and experimental design, typically relying on iterative refinement schemes that sequentially add sensors and retrain the model. While effective under limited data regimes, these approaches incur substantial computational cost due to repeated retraining and primarily focus on selecting subsets of sensors, without providing a global characterization of sensor importance. In this work, we propose FOSSA, a first-order optimality-based sensor selection algorithm for inverse PINNs. Unlike existing methods, FOSSA evaluates sensor importance in a post-training manner, requiring only a single trained PINN. FOSSA assigns importance scores to all candidate sensing locations based on the first-order optimality condition at convergence. To improve robustness, a refinement scheme is further proposed to handle instability in the inverse solver. FOSSA facilitates a global assessment of the contribution of each sensor to reconstruction. We validate the proposed approach on the inverse electrocardiography (ECG) modeling and show that not all sensors contribute positively to predictive performance. Incorporating low-importance sensors can, in fact, degrade reconstruction accuracy. These findings highlight the need for principled sensor importance evaluation and provide a scalable pathway for guiding sensor deployment in physics-informed inverse modeling.

PINN传感器选择逆问题医疗成像

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