Differentiable FEM versus PINN for pavement layer inverse analysis: enforcing physics as hard or soft constraints

arXiv:2606.03210 · cs.CE, cs.LG, cs.NA, math.NA · Submitted 2026-06-02 · Read on arXiv

cs.CE, cs.LG, cs.NA, math.NA

Submitted: 2026-06-02

Updated: 2026-10-26

Terminology

• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Computational Efficiency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Loss Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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