collaborators

8 papers

cs.LG2026

Structure-Preserving Neural Surrogates with Tractable Uncertainty Quantification

Handi Zhang, Adrienne M. Propp, Brooks Kinch +2

Recent advances in scientific machine learning provide a means of near-real-time solution to partial differential equations (PDEs), but lack the theoretical underpinnings of conven…

cs.LG2026

Structure-Preserving Learning Improves Geometry Generalization in Neural PDEs

Benjamin D. Shaffer, Shawn Koohy, Brooks Kinch +2

We aim to develop physics foundation models for science and engineering that provide real-time solutions to Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) which preserve structure and accur…

cs.RO2026

Neural Navigation Functions for Zero-Shot Generalizable Motion Planning

Benjamin D. Shaffer, Pei-An Hsieh, Brooks Kinch +2

We introduce Neural Navigation Functions (Neural-NF), a learned reactive navigation function capable of zero-shot transfer across unseen environment geometries. Neural-NF places da…

cs.LG2026

A meshfree exterior calculus for generalizable and data-efficient learning of physics from point clouds

Benjamin D. Shaffer, Brooks Kinch, M. Ani Hsieh +1

We introduce a meshfree exterior calculus (MEEC) for learning structure-preserving descriptions of physics on point clouds, and use it to build MEEC-Net, a data-efficient surrogate…

cs.LG2026

A Hybridizable Neural Time Integrator for Stable Autoregressive Forecasting

Brooks Kinch, Xiaozhe Hu, Yilong Huang +6

For autoregressive modeling of chaotic dynamical systems over long time horizons, the stability of both training and inference is a major challenge in building scientific foundatio…

cs.RO2025

Multi-robot Multi-source Localization in Complex Flows with Physics-Preserving Environment Models

Benjamin Shaffer, Victoria Edwards, Brooks Kinch +2

Source localization in a complex flow poses a significant challenge for multi-robot teams tasked with localizing the source of chemical leaks or tracking the dispersion of an oil s…