arXiv:2605.09975cs.LGmath.OC2026-05

用几何中心法统一选择PINN训练方向,提升收敛性与可解释性。

Chebyshev Center-Based Direction Selection for Multi-Objective Optimization and Training PINNs

论文配图:Chebyshev Center-Based Direction Selection for Multi-Objective Optimization and Training PINNs
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  • 将更新方向选为对偶锥中到各面距离最小值最大的方向,基于单一几何准则。
  • 在非凸设置下保证收敛,且比现有方法更高效,实验表现优异。
  • 无需额外设计属性,自然恢复尺度鲁棒性和同步下降等优点,适合研究者参考。

物理信息神经网络(PINNs)是求解偏微分方程(PDEs)的有前景方法,但其训练困难,因需同时优化由PDE残差及边界或初始条件带来的多个损失项。现有方法常通过显式施加特定理想性质(如尺度鲁棒性、同步下降)来构建更新方向,虽有效但难以判断哪些条件本质重要,也缺乏统一的几何解释。本文将PINN训练中的方向选择建模为对偶锥中的切比雪夫中心问题:选取一个归一化方向,使其到锥面的最小距离最大化。该公式在低维空间中存在高效对偶问题,并在非凸设置下提供收敛保证。所选方向自动蕴含现有方法的关键优势,无需单独施加;这使得方向选择可通过单一几何规则解释,为相关方法的系统比较提供统一基础。多个PINN基准测试进一步验证了该方法的强性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are a promising approach for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Their training, however, is often difficult because multiple loss terms induced by PDE residuals and boundary or initial conditions must be optimized simultaneously. To address this difficulty, existing approaches often construct update directions by explicitly enforcing particular desirable properties, such as scale robustness and simultaneous descent. While effective in many cases, such property-by-property designs can make it unclear which conditions are essential, what geometric principle determines the selected update direction, and how different methods are structurally related. In this work, we formulate update-direction selection for PINN training as a Chebyshev-center problem in the dual cone. The proposed formulation selects a normalized direction that maximizes the minimum distance to the cone facets. The resulting formulation admits an efficient dual problem in a much lower-dimensional space and yields a convergence guarantee in the nonconvex setting. It also recovers the key desirable properties targeted by existing approaches without imposing them separately; rather, they follow from the single geometric criterion underlying the formulation. This makes the selected direction interpretable through a single geometric rule and provides a unified basis for systematically comparing related direction-selection methods. Experiments on several PINN benchmarks further demonstrate strong empirical performance of the proposed method.

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