Residuals Are Not Enough: Limits of Physics-Informed Pre-Training for Scientific Foundation Models

arXiv:2503.19081 · cs.LG · Submitted 2025-03-24 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2025-03-24

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Generalization — 4× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• PDE residual — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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