Neural Second Order Ordinary Differential Equation

The neural ODE focuses and finding a neural network such that:

\[u^\prime = NN(u)\]

However, in many cases in physics-based modeling, the key object is not the velocity but the acceleration: knowing the acceleration tells you the force field and thus the generating process for the dynamical system. Thus what we want to do is find the force, i.e.:

\[u^{\prime\prime} = NN(u)\]

(Note that in order to be the acceleration, we should divide the output of the neural network by the mass!)

An example of training a neural network on a second order ODE is as follows:

using DifferentialEquations, Flux, Optimization, OptimizationFlux, RecursiveArrayTools, Random

u0 = Float32[0.; 2.]
du0 = Float32[0.; 0.]
tspan = (0.0f0, 1.0f0)
t = range(tspan[1], tspan[2], length=20)

model = Flux.Chain(Flux.Dense(2, 50, tanh), Flux.Dense(50, 2))
p,re = Flux.destructure(model)

ff(du,u,p,t) = re(p)(u)
prob = SecondOrderODEProblem{false}(ff, du0, u0, tspan, p)

function predict(p)
    Array(solve(prob, Tsit5(), p=p, saveat=t))
end

correct_pos = Float32.(transpose(hcat(collect(0:0.05:1)[2:end], collect(2:-0.05:1)[2:end])))

function loss_n_ode(p)
    pred = predict(p)
    sum(abs2, correct_pos .- pred[1:2, :]), pred
end

data = Iterators.repeated((), 1000)
opt = ADAM(0.01)

l1 = loss_n_ode(p)

callback = function (p,l,pred)
    println(l)
    l < 0.01
end
adtype = Optimization.AutoZygote()
optf = Optimization.OptimizationFunction((x,p)->loss_n_ode(x), adtype)
optprob = Optimization.OptimizationProblem(optf, p)

res = Optimization.solve(optprob, opt; callback = callback, maxiters=1000)

u: 252-element Vector{Float32}:
 -0.3223696
 -0.7283875
 -0.1272979
 -7.2325134
  4.5572133
 -3.7479517
  0.7550874
  0.1326818
 -0.6491184
  0.6322166
  ⋮
 -0.7496205
 -0.28357905
 -0.5171602
 -0.008767419
 -0.5064632
  0.037132565
 -0.792074
  0.14859371
  0.28851596