Improved Training Of Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Using Energy-Based Priors:
A Study On Electrical Impedance Tomography

Akarsh Pokkunuru1, Amirmohammad Rooshenas2, Thilo Strauss3, Anuj Abhishek1, Taufiquar Khan1

University of North Carolina at Charlotte1, University of Illinois at Chicago2, Bosch ETAS Research3

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ML4PS Workshop
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Abstract

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are attracting significant attention for solving partial differential equation (PDE) based inverse problems, including electrical impedance tomography (EIT). EIT is non-linear and especially its inverse problem is highly ill-posed. Therefore, successful training of PINN is extremely sensitive to interplay between different loss terms and hyper-parameters, including the learning rate. In this work, we propose a Bayesian approach through datadriven energy-based model (EBM) as a prior, to improve the overall accuracy and quality of tomographic reconstruction. In particular, the EBM is trained over the possible solutions of the PDEs with different boundary conditions. By imparting such prior onto physics-based training, PINN convergence is expedited by more than ten times faster to the PDE’s solution. Evaluation outcome shows that our proposed method is more robust for solving the EIT problem.

 
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Energy-Based Prior For Accelerating EIT PINNs

Bibtex Citation

@inproceedings{
  pokkunuru2023improved,
  title={Improved Training of Physics-Informed Neural Networks Using Energy-Based Priors: a Study on Electrical Impedance Tomography},
  author={Akarsh Pokkunuru and Amirmohmmad Rooshenas and Thilo Strauss and Anuj Abhishek and Taufiquar Khan},
  booktitle={International Conference on Learning Representations},
  year={2023},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=zqkfJA6R1-r}
}