This work proposes a Reduced-Order Physics-Informed Neural Network (RO-PINN) framework with adaptive basis refinement for structural identification under known and incomplete physics, and shows parameter identification comparable to or more accurate than Bayesian model updating with lower computational cost.
Abstract
Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) provide a flexible framework for solving forward and inverse problems. However, their direct application to structural dynamics remains limited by high system dimensionality and model-form errors arising from incomplete physics. Reduced-order models (ROMs) can alleviate the dimensionality bottleneck, yet existing PINN-ROM couplings typically rely on fixed reduced subspaces, target forward simulations, or assume complete physics, restricting their use for inverse identification under parametric variability or incomplete system knowledge. To address these limitations, this work proposes a Reduced-Order Physics-Informed Neural Network (RO-PINN) framework with adaptive basis refinement for structural identification under known and incomplete physics. Via projection, reduced governing equations are embedded directly into the PINN loss, facilitating learning in a low-dimensional latent space. An adaptive scheme updates the projection basis during training so that the latent space is progressively realigned with evolving structural parameters or learned residual restoring forces. This realignment reduces basis-mismatch errors and limits their influence on the inferred residual force. The method is validated on a four-story steel frame with nonlinear hysteretic braces under sparse and noisy measurements. Results show parameter identification comparable to or more accurate than Bayesian model updating with lower computational cost in the considered cases, recovery of unmodeled nonlinear restoring forces under incomplete physics, and joint identification of residual restoring forces and structural parameters within the same framework. Overall, RO-PINN provides a unified framework for structural identification by integrating reduced-order modeling, adaptive basis refinement, and physics-informed learning within a single formulation.
A continual-learning physics-informed neural network (CL-PINN), which combines Bayesian-optimization-based active parameter selection, task-wise dynamic loss weighting, sparse physics-constrained replay, and an optional parameter subnetwork to improve task allocation and knowledge retention under bounded active-task capacity.
Xujia Chen, Xinyu Hu, Letian Chen et al.· 0 citations
The results demonstrate that PINN achieves more accurate and stable full-field vibration reconstructions than conventional PINNs, particularly under conditions involving high-frequency modes, and highlights the potential of hybrid data-physics neural frameworks as an efficient and reliable approach for solving complex PDE-governed dynamical systems.
Hai-Long Liu, S. Hedayatrasa, Yunpeng Zhu et al.· e-Journal of Nondestructive...· 0 citations
The proposed SCV-PINN provides a robust and generalized extension of standard PINNs for complex-valued, multiscale, oscillatory, high-dimensional, and real-valued nonlinear PDEs.
Biswanath Barman, Rajendra K. Ray, Debdeep Chatterjee· 0 citations
Parameter identification in nonlinear dynamical systems is complicated by model-form uncertainty arising from systematic biases that violate the zero-mean error assumption of standard data assimilation methods. Recent neural-network-based approaches learn arbitrary bias corrections online. However, they require careful regularization to ensure unique solutions and carry computational overhead from ensemble propagation and in-situ training. We present a framework that integrates the parametrized-background data-weak formulation with attention-based parameter identification networks. It projects model error onto a dictionary of physically motivated spatial templates rather than learning arbitrary corrections. This provides uniqueness through hard subspace constraints rather than soft regularization penalties, albeit at the cost of restricting the representable bias space to patterns anticipated from domain knowledge. The framework is demonstrated on parameter estimation in the Rijke tube model, achieving robust generalization to out-of-distribution (OOD) bias patterns not seen during training. Ablation studies confirm the importance of state supervision for amplitude-sensitive parameters and temporal bias modeling for phase-sensitive parameters. Performance degrades gradually when bias patterns lie outside the template span. This indicates that the attention encoder extracts parameter information from bias-invariant features rather than relying critically on template-based bias capture. The physics-constrained and universal approximator approaches represent complementary points on the flexibility–efficiency tradeoff, suited to different operational contexts.
Y. Ju· Machine Learning: Science an...· 0 citations
This work proposes a novel physics-informed broad learning system (PI-BLS), the first physics-informed learning framework based on broad RdNNs that achieves competitive and often superior performance with reduced training time and model parameters compared with conventional PINNs.
Pinki Khatun, M. Sajid, Abhinav Jha et al.· arXiv.org· 0 citations
Recovering compact explicit solutions from neural approximations is challenging when imperfect teacher data guide symbolic topology search and coefficient estimation. We present DeSyR, a decoupled symbolic recovery framework for differential equations. A physics-informed neural network guides repeated searches to construct candidate topologies with provisional constants. Once a topology is fixed, its coefficients are refined solely from the governing equation and prescribed constraints, followed by gated selection and verification. For linear fixed-topology parameterizations, we characterize teacher-error inheritance and show that finite-weight mixed data--physics fitting retains an $O(\beta^{-1})$ teacher-dependent contribution when the teacher error projects onto the model space. Under well-posedness, representability, zero-residual attainment, and discrete determinacy, physics-only refinement conditionally recovers exact coefficients; for nonlinear parameterizations, the corresponding guarantees are local. DeSyR is evaluated on 15 differential-equation problems across 18 configurations covering high-order, space--time, multidimensional, nonlinear, and coupled systems. A candidate-level audit yields a 99.23% convergence rate among free-parameter refits, while every selected refinement involving free coefficients converges. Configuration-level median refined relative $L_2$ errors are $2.31\times10^{-14}$ or lower. In same-topology comparisons, refinement reduces error by eight to fourteen orders of magnitude. These results show that an approximate neural teacher can guide topology discovery without imposing its error scale on final recovered coefficients, provided a target-capable topology is retained and physics-only refinement converges.
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