Physics-Informed Method of Group Data Handling: Adaptive Construction of Functional Representations with an Application to the Navier-Stokes Equations
Abstract
Physics-informed computational methods usually optimize parameters within a functional representation whose structure is fixed in advance. This work proposes a Physics-Informed Method of Group Data Handling (PI-GMDH), in which representations of coupled physical fields are progressively constructed during solution. Candidate functional directions are evaluated through the first variation of the complete physical and observational objective, introduced in packages, and followed by block-coordinate damped Gauss-Newton coefficient optimization. The framework is demonstrated with tensor-product Chebyshev functions on the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations using a two-dimensional time-dependent Taylor-Green benchmark. Under the tested configuration, adaptive PI-GMDH reached validation and held-out test losses of 5.299e-19 and 5.296e-19 with 204, 201, and 175 active functions for u, v, and p. Complete degree-by-degree and all-terms PI-GMDH variants, together with selected PINN and KAN reference configurations, are used to examine the effect of structural construction policy. The results show that, for this controlled synthetic benchmark, selective progressive construction can provide a favorable combination of accuracy, representation size, and wall-clock time. The comparison is illustrative rather than a claim of universal superiority over alternative physics-informed approaches.
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BibTeX
@misc{minin2026physicsinformed,
title = {{Physics-Informed Method of Group Data Handling: Adaptive Construction of Functional Representations with an Application to the Navier-Stokes Equations}},
author = {Mykhailo Minin},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.39291},
eprint = {2609.39291},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39291},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Physics-Informed Method of Group Data Handling: Adaptive Construction of Functional Representations with an Application to the Navier-Stokes Equations
AU - Mykhailo Minin
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/30
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.39291
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39291
AB - Physics-informed computational methods usually optimize parameters within a functional representation whose structure is fixed in advance. This work proposes a Physics-Informed Method of Group Data Handling (PI-GMDH), in which representations of coupled physical fields are progressively constructed during solution. Candidate functional directions are evaluated through the first variation of the complete physical and observational objective, introduced in packages, and followed by block-coordinate damped Gauss-Newton coefficient optimization. The framework is demonstrated with tensor-product Chebyshev functions on the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations using a two-dimensional time-dependent Taylor-Green benchmark. Under the tested configuration, adaptive PI-GMDH reached validation and held-out test losses of 5.299e-19 and 5.296e-19 with 204, 201, and 175 active functions for u, v, and p. Complete degree-by-degree and all-terms PI-GMDH variants, together with selected PINN and KAN reference configurations, are used to examine the effect of structural construction policy. The results show that, for this controlled synthetic benchmark, selective progressive construction can provide a favorable combination of accuracy, representation size, and wall-clock time. The comparison is illustrative rather than a claim of universal superiority over alternative physics-informed approaches.
ER -