Machine learning for reparameterization of multi-scale closures

Scientific machine learning (ML) is becoming increasingly useful in learning closure models for multi-scale physics problems; however, many ML approaches require a vast array of training data and can struggle with generalization and interpretability. Here, rather than learning an entire closure oper...

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Main Authors: Hilary Egan, Meagan Crowley, Hariswaran Sitaraman, Lila Branchaw, Peter Ciesielski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Series:Machine Learning: Science and Technology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/add8de
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Summary:Scientific machine learning (ML) is becoming increasingly useful in learning closure models for multi-scale physics problems; however, many ML approaches require a vast array of training data and can struggle with generalization and interpretability. Here, rather than learning an entire closure operator, we adopt an existing reduced-dimension model of the microphysics and learn an optimal re-parameterization of the solver. We demonstrate two approaches for training the reduced dimension closure model (1) an a priori method that optimizes the closure parameterization and the neural network parameters separately and (2) an a posteriori method that simultaneously optimizes both. Using the simulation of biomass pyrolysis as a motivating example, we show that the a posteriori method achieves better target losses and is less dependent on training dataset size for generalizability. We then demonstrate the impact that implementing this reparameterization has at the macroscale, showing improved predictive performance with no modification to the underlying macroscale solvers.
ISSN:2632-2153