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Jun 21, 2025 Standalone 16 min read

Symplectic Geometry and Structure-Preserving Neural Networks

Learn physics-informed neural networks that preserve energy and symplectic structure. Covers HNN, LNN, SympNet, symplectic integrators, and four classical experiments.

Aug 14, 2024 PDE and Machine Learning 16 min read

PDE and Machine Learning (8): Reaction-Diffusion Systems and Graph Neural Networks

Deep GNNs collapse because they are diffusion equations on graphs. Turing's reaction-diffusion theory tells us how to fix it -- and closes the eight-chapter PDE+ML series.

Jul 30, 2024 PDE and Machine Learning 10 min read

PDE and Machine Learning (7): Diffusion Models and Score Matching

Diffusion models are PDE solvers in disguise. We derive the heat equation, Fokker-Planck, score matching, DDPM, and DDIM from a unified PDE perspective and visualise every step.

Jul 15, 2024 PDE and Machine Learning 11 min read

PDE and Machine Learning (6): Continuous Normalizing Flows and Neural ODE

How do you turn a Gaussian into a complex data distribution? This article derives Neural ODEs, the adjoint method, continuous normalizing flows (FFJORD), and Flow Matching from the underlying ODE/PDE theory, and shows …

Jun 30, 2024 PDE and Machine Learning 17 min read

PDE and Machine Learning (5): Symplectic Geometry and Structure-Preserving Networks

Standard neural networks violate conservation laws. This article derives Hamiltonian mechanics, symplectic integrators, HNNs, LNNs, and SympNets from the geometry of phase space.

Jun 15, 2024 PDE and Machine Learning 9 min read

PDE and Machine Learning (4): Variational Inference and the Fokker-Planck Equation

Variational inference and Langevin MCMC are two faces of the same Fokker-Planck PDE. We derive the equivalence, build SVGD as an interacting-particle approximation, and quantify convergence under log-Sobolev …

May 31, 2024 PDE and Machine Learning 17 min read

PDE and Machine Learning (3): Variational Principles and Optimization

What is the essence of neural-network training? When we run gradient descent in a high-dimensional parameter space, is there a deeper continuous-time dynamics at work? As the network width tends to …

May 16, 2024 PDE and Machine Learning 18 min read

PDE and Machine Learning (2) — Neural Operator Theory

A classical PDE solver — finite difference, finite element, spectral — is a function: feed it one initial condition and one set of coefficients, get back one solution. A PINN is the same kind of …

May 1, 2024 PDE and Machine Learning 8 min read

PDE and Machine Learning (1): Physics-Informed Neural Networks

From finite differences to PINNs: automatic differentiation, PDE residual losses, NTK-based training pathologies, Burgers inverse problems, and a side-by-side comparison with FEM and neural operators. Seven figures …