提出PerFlow模型,高效重建稀疏观测的时空动态并量化不确定性。
PerFlow: Physics-Embedded Rectified Flow for Efficient Reconstruction and Uncertainty Quantification of Spatiotemporal Dynamics

- 分离观测条件与物理约束,无梯度引导实现快速采样
- 50步采样即达高精度,比扩散模型快320倍
- 适用于需要物理一致性与不确定性的科学建模任务
从稀疏不规则观测中重建受偏微分方程(PDE)支配的场具有挑战性,因其本质病态。确定性代理在密集数据上训练,难以处理有限观测且无法量化不确定性。生成模型通过学习时空场的分布,能更好应对稀疏性和不确定性。然而现有方法在采样时同时施加数据一致性和PDE约束,依赖梯度引导,导致推理缓慢且不稳定。为此,我们提出PerFlow:一种嵌入物理的修正流模型,用于高效稀疏重建与不确定性量化。PerFlow将观测条件与物理约束解耦,通过将观测输入修正流动力学实现无梯度引导的条件化,同时通过保持约束的投影(如不可压缩性或守恒律)嵌入硬性物理规律。理论上,我们建立了不变性保证,确保采样轨迹始终位于物理一致流形上。在多种PDE系统上的实验表明,该方法在保持良好物理一致性的同时,实现竞争性重建精度,并支持高效条件采样(例如50步),相比2000步引导扩散基线最快提升320倍。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reconstructing PDE-governed fields from sparse and irregular measurements is challenging due to their ill-posed nature. Deterministic surrogates are trained on dense fields that struggle with limited measurements and uncertainty quantification. Generative models, by learning distributions over spatiotemporal fields, can better handle sparsity and uncertainty. However, existing generative approaches enforce data consistency and PDE constraints simultaneously via sampling-time gradient guidance, resulting in slow and unstable inference. To this end, we propose PerFlow, a Physics-embedded rectified Flow for efficient sparse reconstruction and uncertainty quantification of spatiotemporal dynamics. PerFlow decouples observation conditioning from physics enforcement, performing guidance-free conditioning by feeding observations into rectified-flow dynamics while embedding hard physics via a constraint-preserving projection (e.g., incompressibility or conservation). Theoretically, we establish invariance guarantees to ensure that trajectories remain on the physics-consistent manifold throughout sampling. Experiments on various PDE systems demonstrate competitive reconstruction accuracy with sound physics consistency, while enabling efficient conditional sampling (e.g., 50 steps) and up to 320x faster inference than 2000-step guided diffusion baselines.
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