The joint prediction of continuous fields and statistical estimation of the underlying discrete parameters is a common problem for many physical systems, governed by PDEs. Hitherto, it has been separately addressed by employing operator learning surrogates for field prediction while using simulation-based inference (and its variants) for statistical parameter determination. Here, we argue that solving both problems within the same framework can lead to consistent gains in accuracy and robustness. To this end, We propose a novel and flexible formulation of the operator learning problem that allows jointly predicting continuous quantities and inferring distributions of discrete parameters, and thus amortizing the cost of both the inverse and the surrogate models to a joint pre-training step. We present the capabilities of the proposed methodology for predicting continuous and discrete biomarkers in full-body haemodynamics simulations under different levels of missing information. We also consider a test case for atmospheric large-eddy simulation of a two-dimensional dry cold bubble, where we infer both continuous time-series and information about the systems conditions. We present comparisons against different baselines to showcase significantly increased accuracy in both the inverse and the surrogate tasks.
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Summary
The authors propose a new approach, FUSE to the simultaneous learning of an emulator and statistical estimation of underlying "discrete" parameters in a joint training step. The approach splits the problem into two: (i) the forward problem which is modelled through a FNO neural operator approach, effectively learns a map from a space of finite-dimensional parameters to an output function. (ii) The inverse step then seeks to learn a conditional distribution for the parameters $\xi$ based on measurements of the continuous input $u$ using a flow-matching approach. This yields two loss functions which are simultaneously optimised. The authors present two challenging problems as test cases.
Strengths
The authors have identified an important problem which is genuinely challenging and have proposed a potential solution to this problem. They have demonstrated the effectiveness of their approach on two challenging PDE-based problems. The components of the proposed approach are not novel, but their combination seems to be a new approach, demonstrating originality.
Weaknesses
I struggled at times to understand the actual methodology in the paper. The two strategies for forward and inverse are relatively clear, but their combination is far from clear to me, which leads me to question the broad applicability of this method. My understanding of the methodology is that the authors require data of the form $(y, u, \theta)$, for which $u$ is a continuous input, $y$ is a continuous output and $\theta$ is an intermediate set of parameters. The forward model learns the deterministic map between $y$ and $\theta$ and the inverse model learns the probabilistic relation between $\theta$ and $u$. If this is the case, then the need to propose a combined methodology seems unclear to me. The fact that the two optimisation problems in (4) appear to be decoupled, suggests that this is the case. The challenge that the authors describe is most relevant in settings where data from $\theta$ or $u$ are not available, in which case we must rely on $y$ and $u$ to identify $\theta$ while training the model, but this seems to be not the case? Otherwise, I am struggling to see the need for this combination of methods. I also think the authors could be more comprehensive in their literature review, which has been very narrowly focused on a handful of methods. There are both more recent methods, and quite a history of older approaches which seek to address this problem in different contexts around science and engineering.
Questions
The limitations indicated above need to be clarified -- some clarity is needed in the introduction to spell out the applicability of this methodology. If my understanding is correct, then stronger motivation of why a combined approach is even needed. Discrete parameters is not really the right terminology -- which seems to suggest your data is ordinal valued (1,2,3). I suspect you mean that your parameter is a finite dimensional vector rather than a function? Finally, the literature review seems very focused on neural network approaches, yet there are other approaches based on Gaussian processes etc. Could the authors provide some relevant background which is more encompassing.
Rating
6
Confidence
4
Soundness
2
Presentation
2
Contribution
2
Limitations
Limitations have been well addressed.
Response to Authors
I thanks the reviewer for their detailed comments. My understanding from their responses is the following: 1. Data is available in triples of the form $(s, u, \xi)$, so there is no latent variable inference, etc. 2. The training of the inverse and forward losses is performed in parallel and there is no shared parameters / common components etc. 3. The first time the models speak to each other is during inference / prediction, where the models are simply composed in the obvious way. Based on this, I feel my original challenge about novelty still holds. My understanding remains that this is two separate methods, (i) Learning a FNO model for the parameter to output problem. (ii) Learning a conditional density via a flow-based model for the inverse problem from the input to the parameter distribution. Each approach is generally well-established, each trained in isolation (in parallel). These approaches are then combined at inference time to provide probabilistic inference for the associated inverse problem. The assumption that you would have a data set of the form (*parameter*, *functional input*, *functional output*) would only be reasonable when you're working purely synthetic data from a PDE -- so that this provides utility mostly as a probabilistic surrogate / emulator for the inverse problem. This is different from, say INVAERT which does not prescribe intermediate values at training time. It seems quite unfair to me that it would be used as a baseline for FUSE, as it has to solve a substantially harder problem. In terms of the benefits: 1. Propagated parametric uncertainty: Yes, this is true. 2. Unified validation: This is good, but there's no really way of back-propagating that unified validation to adjust the individual model. 3. Function space simulation-based inference: This is good and a clear feature of FNO layers within the models. I will slightly bump up my score to reflect the helpfulness of the clarification, and because the general paper offers useful insight.
We would first like to thank the reviewer for their response and increasing their score. We take this opportunity to clarify the remaining concerns that the reviewer has regarding our work and request the reviewer's patience in reading our very detailed reply below. **1.** In response to reviewer's point on "InVAErt which does not prescribe intermediate values at training time. It seems quite unfair ...". The reviewer appears to be mistaken in their assessment of the inVAErt methodology. Training separate objectives is not uncommon in the methods that combine forward and inverse problems. The InVAErt framework specifically considers three different models that are trained separately and then combined at evaluation; a deterministic encoder, a normalizing flow, and a deterministic decoder with a VAE based sampler. The InVAErt framework considers both $\xi$ (denoted as $v$ in the original paper) and $s$ (denoted as $y$), so it also assumes that the triplet $(u, \xi, s)$ is known during training. However, due to the limitations of the VAE formulation, $s=u$ in their setup. In other words, InVAErt attempts to solve the same problems we address in our work, *contrary to the reviewers statement that it solves more difficult problems*. First, the deterministic encoder is trained to solve the forward problem, predicting an input function, $u$, from the parameters $\xi$. InVAErt also employs a normalizing flow; however, this learns a distribution of the overall data, as opposed to a posterior distribution conditioned on the input data. Finally, a third training procedure is used to learn a probabilistic latent representation of the parameters, denoted as $w$, and a deterministic map from inputs and latent samples $[u, w]$ to the parameters $\xi$. The VAE component of this model simply learns a set of latent variables which account for a lack of bijectivity in ill-posed problems. This does not provide any unification of the uncertainties which relate the inverse and forward problems presented in their work, nor does it provide any advantage in training a model to solve these problems through a single loss function or unified training procedure. Instead, three model components are trained separately using a total of **5** training objectives. In contrast, FUSE learns the uncertainty within the *parameters themselves*, clearly unifies the propagated uncertainty, and simplifies the objectives into two model components with only two loss functions. **2.** To address the reviewer's comment that "the training of the inverse and forward losses is performed in parallel and there is no shared parameters / common components etc." we would like to point out that this is a choice, not a restriction. Although each model component is trained separately, the sampling procedure of the FMPE model is differentiable. Therefore, it is completely possible to backpropagate from the output functions $s$ to the input functions $u$, through the sampled parameters $\xi$. This would unify the model components during training as well as inference. Essentially, this would condition the uncertainties over output functions on the input functions as opposed to the parameters. However, this does not lead to significant performance gains in practice because the coupled uncertainty may be disentangled, precisely as shown in the mathematical foundations of our model described in Eq. 1. We would add this discussion in the CRV, if accepted. Furthermore, this approach may be used to fine-tune the individual model components when the parameters are not available. This is what we understand the reviewer to imply with point 2, *unified validation backpropagation of the individual model*. Because of differentiable sampling, the inverse component of the model could be fine-tuned by backpropagating the loss from the continuous output functions through the entire model while freezing the forward problem model. This constrains the parameter predictions to lie close to their true values. Likewise, the forward component may be fine-tuned by freezing the inverse problem model, backpropagating the loss on the output functions. We realize that these points are not sufficiently clear in our work and would like to include them in a CRV, if accepted.
**3.** To respond to the comment that "the models are simply composed in the obvious way," we would like to point out that FUSE is not *trivially composed* by two separate methods, but one method from which two separate objectives result by considering Eq. (1). That means that FUSE is a rigorous mathematical framework under which we can formulate different loss functions for forward and inverse problems by considering different metrics over measures. The choice of the neural operator, e.g. FNO, is only a model choice and any neural operator would work. Nonetheless, the choices for the forward and the inverse models are entangled, meaning that one affects the other. For example, if an FNO neural operator is considered for the inverse problem, $\tilde{h}$ needs to be a lifting to the space of band-limited functions. *Therefore, this is a general framework that allows for different choices for the forward and the inverse problem, but these choices cannot be arbitrary*. So, even though the two models do not share parameters, they do share architecture choices. Similarly, flow matching is a way to evaluate the metric $\tilde{d}$ which is difficult to evaluate otherwise, but it can be substituted by some other choice of measure matching or some other metric, as we show with conditional DDPM. **4.** Additionally, the reviewer's comment that *learning an FNO for a parameter to an output problem is well established* is incorrect. The FNO is constructed to learn maps between infinite-dimensional function spaces, related by parameterized PDEs; yet, finite-dimensional parameters are not included in this formulation or as input/output data. To date, there is a critical lack of research on neural operators which relate infinite- and finite-dimensional spaces. We believe we present one of the first approaches to accomplish this task via a novel lifting operator from a finite-dimensional space to a space of band-limited functions. Likewise, we present a transformation from infinite-dimensional spaces to a finite-dimensional space via a projection to a finite dimensional space and a measure matching objective. We believe this is a significant contribution beyond inference based on two finite-dimensional spaces, as accomplished by FMPE alone. In case our assertion of novelty in this context is incorrect, we kindly request the reviewer to provide references where similar approaches are well established within the community. **5.** The statement that data set of the form (parameter, functional input, functional output) would only be reasonable for purely synthetic data, is not necessarily true. It is very common in bioengineering, and more specifically in real datasets involving PWP, see the MIMIC-III (https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.35) as an example and data from biobanks (e.g. the UK biobank), to contain both time-series data and vectors of parameters available for different patients. FUSE is applicable for these real datasets to perform the following tasks: infer parameters using real data, see ArXiv:2307.13918 for an example setup, precision medicine or solver calibration, see ArXiv:2404.14187 for an example setup, fingerprinting to discover parameter-disease correlations, see https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.19.590260 for an example setup. Even when considering purely synthetic data, it is very important to study parametric PDEs, and more specifically the relations between different parameters and the system output. In tandem with numerical solvers, FUSE may be used for sensitivity analysis, calibration to specific conditions or to find parameters that lead to extreme events. All of these processes are very useful for improving our understanding of complex systems governed by PDEs. The study of such systems is critical for areas of science and engineering, including climate modeling, mechanics, fluid dynamics, and wave scattering amongst others. Even though neural operators often work with synthetic data, it is reductive to imply there is no connection to real world systems.
**5. (continued)** Moreover, we consider unifying forward and inverse problems, which is by definition a setup where the whole triplet $(u, \xi, s)$ is needed. This happens because both the forward and the inverse problem are supervised. This problem setting is the same as the cases considered in InVAErt and cVANO. It is an interesting direction to generalize this approach to perform manifold discovery as well, when the manifold coordinates $\xi$ are not available as labels for each data sample. Essentially, the PDE parameters act as a coordinate system for the underlying manifold and are used to enforce the latent space to conform to this manifold. When the manifold coordinates are not known, we need to rely on the model to disentangle the coordinates of the latent space, which is a hard problem in representation learning and generative modeling in general. In practice, what disentanglement means is that if you move on the axis of one coordinate of the latent vector it has an individual effect on the output. For example if we vary the latent dimension that represents MAP in the PWP example, this will result in increasing the pressure, but if we vary the dimension corresponding to Age it will have a very small effect to the output, please see our sensitivity analysis. One way for this to be tackled would be to consider a Manifold flow formulation (ArXiv: 2003.13913) to both discover the latent manifold coordinates to solve the inverse problem, and a chart from the latent space to the space of output functions to solve the forward problem. FUSE can be extended to Manifold flows by considering some specific architecture choices, such as invertible Neural Operators. In this case, knowing $\xi$ during training would be optional, but when $\xi$ is not known then the latent space will not be interpretable. We leave this direction to future research. *** We would like to thank the reviewer for their diligence and patience with our detailed reply. We hope this has addressed the remaining concerns to the reviewer's satisfaction and kindly request the reviewer to update your assessment accordingly.
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I thank the authors for clarifying a misunderstanding I had about invaert. Where FUSE sits in the existing methodology is far more clear to me. I hope the authors can provide similar clarifications about their method in the main paper. I have bumped up the score to aceptance
We sincerely appreciate the reviewer's commitment to this discussion, and we will gladly incorporate these clarifications in the updated manuscript. We also thank the reviewer for further increasing their score to acceptance.
Summary
This paper proposes a framework to tackle simultaneously forward (simulation of the system) and inverse (estimation of key parameters of the system) problems for PDEs. Namely, the authors suppose the existence of an underlying parameter $\xi$ that characterizes the input functions $u$ of the PDE, and therefore formulate a probabilistic framework where the output solution $s$ is sampled according to $\xi \sim p(\xi | u)$ and $\hat{s} = G^\theta(\xi)$. The authors employ a two-loss objective for training where the first one aims to train the operator and the second one is used to approximate the true distribution $p^*(\xi | u)$. The method is tested on complex PDE systems, that depend on multiple parameters, namyely atmospheric cold bubble (ACB) and plus wave propagation (PWP). It obtains better performance than existing methods and convincing uncertainty propagation results.
Strengths
* The paper proposes FUSE, a unifying approach for both inverse and forward problems for PDEs, with a relevant theoretical framework. * The method obtains SOTA results on complex PDEs on the forward metrics, and is very competitive in the inverse task. It outperforms all the baselines in the OOD regime, showcasing the robustness of the method. * The uncertainty propagation property is impressive, as shown in Figure 4 and 5. * They propose the first application of flow matching for PDE problems, and integrate Fourier layers in the architecture.
Weaknesses
* The datasets used are quite complex as they include many parameters and several equations. It could be best to provide additional visualizations of the data and further describe the data format used by each block of the architecture to better illustrate the different components. * The paper does not justify the use of flow matching compared to a different probabilistic approach. Would there be a difference between DDPM and Flow matching in this case ? * There is a lack of details on flow matching, particularly on the parametrization $\psi_{u, t}$ and its inverse $\psi^{-1}_{u, t}$.
Questions
* Do you have access to the true parameters $\xi$ during training ? * Do you train the neural operators with parameters $\xi$ sampled from the flow matching ? * Is the training done sequentially or in parallel ? According to the minimization objective, each loss only depends on a single set of parameters. * How many steps do you take at inference ? * Did you try other generative models other than flow matching ? * Did you try a fully probabilistic framework ? For instance assuming that the observations of $s$ were not deterministic given $\xi$ ? * What is the training and inference time of the method ?
Rating
7
Confidence
4
Soundness
3
Presentation
3
Contribution
3
Limitations
There is a limitation section that discusses the assumptions of the method.
Summary
The authors study the problem of joint prediction of continuous fields and statistical estimation of parameters for physical systems governed by PDEs. Prior work had focused on operator learning and then inference to determine the statistical parameters. Here, the propose to solve for both jointly in their method FUSE which combines Neural Operators with Flow Matching Posterior Estimation (FMPE). The authors then test their method on important applied problems in haemodynamics and large eddy simulations showing advantages in both the inverse and surrogate problems.
Strengths
- Good application domains studied including haemodyanmics and atmospheric large-eddy simulation of bubbles. - Interesting problem to study parametric PDEs - Identified proper limitation of numerical methods when the PDE parameters are not known exactly and calibration techniques must be used to learn the parameter from data in inverse problems. - Nice overview of Neural Operators - Nice to also mention ROMs and recent work in deep learning. - Good that the paper tackles both forward problems with UQ and inverse problems - CRPS is good uncertainty metric - Also good that OOD case is tested - Thorough an diverse evaluation - Results show that the proposed FUSE method is performing strongly - FUSE maintains the discretization invariance property of NOs
Weaknesses
- Add references to the classical numerical methods, such as LeVeque in the introduction - Can add reference to the Multiwavelet Neural Operator, Gupta et al., NeurIPS 2021 in the introduction. - Missing literature references: Neural Operator methods with UQ for the Forward Model Simulation including Bayesian Neural Operator, Magnani et al., and see the overview and detailed comparison in Mouli et al., "Using Uncertainty Quantification to Characterize and Improve Out-of-Domain Learning for PDEs", ICML 2024, which studies sensitivity analysis and UQ for Neural Operators. I think these works should be cited and the methods compared to as baselines. Also see Ma et al., "Calibrated Uncertainty Quantification for Operator Learning via Conformal Prediction", https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01960, 2024 for conformal prediction techniques. - The main limitation is lack of benchmarking against the above FNO + UQ baselines - More recent state-of-the-art baselines, e.g., diffusion models (DDPM, DDIM) and variants could also be compared.
Questions
1, In parametric PDEs, are the authors discussing the PDE parameter or the BC/IC as mentioned in the introduction and why are they discrete? The authors should clarify this. 2. How are the two loss functions weighted and counter-balanced? Is there a hyper-parameter to tune?
Rating
6
Confidence
4
Soundness
3
Presentation
3
Contribution
3
Limitations
Yes
Summary
The authors propose "FUSE", a combination of multiple neural operator models, which are trained to jointly solve PDE forward problems and perform parameter inference of given parametric PDE. The main idea is to start from a range of PDE solutions obtained from various parameter values, and then train neural operators that can interpolate both in parameter space and in solution space. The approach is evaluated on two systems of parametric PDE, and compared to a range of similar neural operator and sampling approaches.
Strengths
The results of the computational experiments seem impressive, especially given that only a relatively small number of samples is used (O(1000)). The main idea of jointly learning the parameter inference and the forward PDE solution is valid and interesting. The comparison to a range of other approaches shows that the proposed approach works well.
Weaknesses
1) Figure 1 is not very clear. The caption does not explain what is shown in the figure, the parameters, models, inputs and outputs are not mentioned. 2) Many references are only referred to by their pre-print. The proper journal / conference should be given instead. 3) Inference times are not provided, and no comparison to classical solvers is performed (even though they are being used to generate the training data). Also see question 4. 4) The paper (main and appendix) does not contain a lot of details regarding implementation and applicability (Questions 5 and 6). Minor: 1) l88: "observatbles" -> observables 2) l110: G is now not an operator as defined in l87, but a function on a finite-dimensional space (with a range in a function space). The redefinition is confusing.
Questions
1) l64: why is the framework called "FUSE"? Is it an acronym for something? 2) l93: should it not be $\mu$ instead of $\mu^*$ on the right argument of d as well? Otherwise, how can we minimize the distance to the full measure, not just its approximation? 3) l142: what does it mean that "$\mathcal{P}$ is a map that lifts the channels of the dimensions of the input function"? What does "lifting channels of dimensions" mean? 4) The authors state that (l31) "iterative and thus expensive calibration procedures" are required for classical solvers as a drawback, but then 180 GPU hours (l604) are required for training the proposed model. The authors do not comment on this, so my question: why is it beneficial to train, or "calibrate" the neural operator model for such a long time, as opposed to using the "iterative and expensive" calibration procedures for classical solvers? 5) There are very little details on the "learnable maps" mentioned throughout the explanation of the approach. Which maps are used? Are all of these MLPs, deep, which nonlinearities? These details do not need to be mentioned in the main paper, but even the appendix does not contain them. 6) There is very little detail on the the applicability of the approach. For which PDEs is it useful, when will it not work, how much data is needed for which types of problems, etc.? These questions do not need to be answered completely, but there is not even a simple example where this is being discussed or studied.
Rating
5
Confidence
4
Soundness
3
Presentation
3
Contribution
3
Limitations
The authors discuss limitations in terms of future work, which is fine. Negative societal impact is not discussed, where the authors argue that only PDE problems are being solved, without immediate concerns - which is questionable, especially because the authors use pulse propagation in the human cardiovascular system as an example where the approach could be used (and where humans may be harmed it it does not work in practice in a hospital).
Summary
The paper introduces a novel framework called FUSE that unifies surrogate modeling and parameter identification for parametric partial differential equations (PDEs). Traditionally, field prediction and statistical estimation of discrete parameters have been separately handled by using operator learning surrogates and simulation-based inference, respectively. FUSE proposes a combined approach that aims to enhance the accuracy and robustness of both tasks. FUSE is designed to jointly predict continuous fields and infer the distributions of discrete parameters, leveraging a unified pre-training step to amortize the computational costs associated with both the inverse and surrogate models. It employs a probabilistic extension of operator learning through Flow Matching Posterior Estimation (FMPE) to effectively handle parametric uncertainties. This unified approach facilitates in-depth model calibration and supports sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification (UQ) at a significantly reduced computational cost. The authors demonstrate the proposed methodology on two applications: pulse wave propagation (PWP) in the human arterial network and an atmospheric cold bubble (ACB) simulation. They emphasize the advantages of FUSE in both the inverse (parameter estimation) and forward (continuous field prediction) tasks.
Strengths
1. Problem Definition: The authors have mathematically defined the statistical estimation of discrete parameters, a significant problem encountered in practical applications. 2. Integrated Approach: FUSE provides a holistic and efficient solution for addressing parametric uncertainties in PDEs by integrating surrogate modeling and parameter inference tasks within a single framework. 3. Robustness: The use of FMPE in a probabilistic setting makes the model enhance the robustness of model predictions under varying conditions and uncertainties.
Weaknesses
1. Lack of Novelty: This paper appears to be an application of FMPE (Flow Matching Posterior Estimation) to the inverse problem, lacking significant novel developments. 2. Uncommon Problems: The problems addressed in this paper have not been widely discussed within the machine learning community (though it might be due to my lack of familiarity). Questions
Questions
1. In the supplementary section (Fig A.1, A.2), it seems that the identified parameters can cover a very wide range. However, these parameters do not significantly impact the PDE solution (Fig A.3, A.4). Is it correct to interpret these variables as having low sensitivity? 2. In the worst case of (Fig A.3, A.4), even when considering uncertainty (i.e., various possible parameter values), the obtained solution seems quite different from the true one. Should this be interpreted as indicating the presence of unknown physics? These questions might arise from my lack of familiarity with the specific applications discussed, as mentioned in the weaknesses above. 3. Can the methodology in this paper be applied if the boundary conditions are set as parameters?
Rating
6
Confidence
3
Soundness
4
Presentation
3
Contribution
3
Limitations
The authors have effectively explained the limitations of their approach in the paper.
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Thank you for the additional details. I am quite satisfied with the answers so I will increase my score to 7.
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The authors have adequately addressed my concerns. I will raise my score to 5. Regarding Q3: it seems my comment was unclear; I am aware of the concept of "lifting" / changing the input dimension with a linear map, but the sentence in the manuscript was confusing. The explanation by the authors in the rebuttal is great, I recommend to modify the sentence in the manuscript.
We sincerely thank the reviewer for adjusting their score, and we will gladly incorporate the revisions into an updated manuscript.
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Thank you for responses
I have reviewed the author's responses and the discussion among the other reviewers and the authors. As a result, all my concerns have been addressed, and I have raised my score. Thank you the authors for their responses.
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Decision
Accept (poster)