Mixing simulation fidelities lowers data generation costs for neural PDE surrogates

Training on a tuned mixture of low- and high-fidelity simulations matches high-fidelity-only accuracy while reducing simulator compute by up to 6.3x across six PDE benchmarks.

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Paul Setinek · Fabian Paischer · Nils Thuerey · Johannes Brandstetter · Felix Koehler

JKU Linz · Mistral AI · Technical University of Munich · Munich Center for Machine Learning

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The authors treated simulation fidelity as a fine-grained discrete spectrum, rather than a binary high/low choice, and trained neural surrogates on mixtures of samples generated at different numerical fidelities.

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Training neural PDE surrogates on an optimal mixture of simulation fidelities matches high-fidelity-only accuracy while using up to 6.3x less data generation compute.

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