UEPI: Universal Energy-Behavior-Preserving Integrators for Energy Conservative/Dissipative Differential Equations

Elena Celledoni, Brynjulf Owren, Chong Shen, Baige Xu, Takaharu Yaguchi

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025) Main Conference Track

Physical phenomena in the real world are often described by energy-based modeling theories, such as Hamiltonian mechanics or the Landau theory. It is known that physical phenomena based on these theories have an energy conservation law or a dissipation law. Therefore, in the simulations of such physical phenomena, numerical methods that preserve the energy-conservation or dissipation laws are desirable. However, because various energy-behavior-preserving numerical methods have been proposed, it is difficult to discover the best one. In this study, we propose a method for learning highly accurate energy-behavior-preserving integrators from data. Numerical results show that our approach certainly learns energy-behavior-preserving numerical methods that are more accurate than existing numerical methods for various differential equations, including chaotic Hamiltonian systems, dissipative systems, and a nonlinear partial differential equation. We also provide universal approximation theorems for the proposed approach.