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arxiv: 2510.13677 · v2 · submitted 2025-10-15 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph.IM· cs.NE· physics.comp-ph

APRIL: Auxiliary Physically-Redundant Information in Loss -- A physics-informed framework for parameter estimation with a gravitational-wave case study

Matteo Scialpi , Francesco Di Clemente , Leigh Smith , Micha{\l} Bejger This is my paper

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keywords physics-informed neural networksgravitational wave parameter estimationloss function augmentationcompact binary coalescencechirp massmachine learning for physicsinspiral waveforms
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Adding auxiliary physically-redundant terms to the loss preserves the physical minimum while reshaping the landscape for faster convergence in neural network parameter estimation.

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The paper presents APRIL as a way to augment the standard supervised loss in neural networks with extra terms drawn from exact physical redundancy relations among the outputs. These additions are shown to leave the true physical solution unchanged as the global minimum but alter the surrounding loss surface so that gradient descent reaches physically consistent solutions more readily. In a gravitational-wave case study the method is applied to recover chirp mass, total mass and symmetric mass ratio from noise-free inspiral waveforms using a simple fully-connected network. The resulting test accuracy improves by up to an order of magnitude, particularly for the harder-to-learn parameters. The approach is positioned as a scalable complement to conventional physics-informed networks when many realizations of the same physics must be processed.

Core claim

By including auxiliary physically-redundant information in the loss, the training objective keeps the original physical minimum intact while changing the geometry of the loss surface, which demonstrably improves convergence and yields substantially higher accuracy when estimating the chirp mass, total mass and symmetric mass ratio of compact binary systems from simulated inspiral-frequency waveforms.

What carries the argument

APRIL augments the supervised output-target loss with auxiliary terms that exploit exact physical redundancy relations among the neural-network outputs, such as algebraic identities linking chirp mass, total mass and mass ratio.

If this is right

  • The method scales to large collections of systems that share the same underlying physics while still enforcing physical consistency.
  • Accuracy gains are largest for parameters that standard supervised training learns poorly.
  • The framework remains compatible with future extensions that incorporate realistic noise and broader parameter ranges.
  • It supplies a complementary route to standard PINNs when the task involves many independent realizations rather than a single system.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same redundancy-augmentation idea could be transferred to other inverse problems in which outputs are linked by known algebraic or differential identities.
  • If the network architecture is known to be under-expressive, the auxiliary terms may still regularize training but would require separate validation against injected signals.
  • Pairing APRIL with existing noise-robust training schedules might extend the observed accuracy gains into the realistic-data regime without changing the core construction.

Load-bearing premise

The auxiliary redundancy terms can be added without introducing bias or inconsistency even when the input signals contain realistic noise or when the neural network cannot perfectly represent the underlying waveform model.

What would settle it

A controlled experiment that adds realistic detector noise to the same inspiral waveforms and then checks whether the recovered parameters become systematically biased relative to the noise-free case would directly test whether the physical minimum remains unbiased.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2510.13677 by Francesco Di Clemente, Leigh Smith, Matteo Scialpi, Micha{\l} Bejger.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: An example of f(tk) from the 1.5PN CBC GW event, corresponding to m1 ≃ 78.1 M⊙, m2 ≃ 12.6 M⊙ (M ≃ 25.4 M⊙, Mtot ≃ 90.7 M⊙, and η ≃ 0.12). 3.2 Methodology We will now describe the simulated datasets, the network used for the benchmark study and the benchmark itself. The dataset (Sec. 3.2.1) and the algorithm (Sec. 3.2.2) are purposefully simple in order to focus our study on the impact of the loss component… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Training, validation and test datasets for M, Mtot and η. Training and validation datasets are generated by sampling Mtot and η from a uniform distribution. The test dataset is obtained by sampling m1 and q from the mass distribution inferred by LVK collaboration from the GWTC-4 catalog [45, 46], as described in Sec. 3.2.1. Summarizing, an input dataset is composed of D frequency arrays {fk} K k=1 = f(tk),… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Algorithm training flow. The frequency array {fk} K k is given as input to the FCNN architecture, to give {M, Mtot, η}θ outputs. The outputs are then combined in different algebraic quantities that will be substituted in the different loss terms. The total loss is then computed as the sum of all terms. Its value and the gradient meta-data permits to update the NN parameter θ for a new epoch. During the tra… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: RL1 results (median and 68% CI) for all the runs. Left panels show the study of the mass parameters individually, upper right panel shows the same study for the sum of the three, while bottom right panel shows the needed epochs to converge. The shape and the color of the markers determines the training dataset and the batch sizes. When APRIL losses are absent the RL1 result for the common sum is worse by a… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Test output relative errors on mass components comparing the runs for {D, B, seed} =  5 × 103 , 16, 1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Ground truth loss components for the different runs. The combination of hyperparameters for these runs are {D, B, seed} =  5 × 103 , 16, 1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: RL1 error comparing Lt + LAPRIL for the same batch size and a different data size. Here we set always the seed value to 1. We can see clearly a shift for M, which is anyway compensated with increasing D. 4.3 Dependence of parameter’s accuracy on the training data size Looking again at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: RL1 results (median and 68% CI) for all the runs. In the y axis the runs are labeled following their {αt, αdf, αp, αa} values. The different panels are dividing the study of the mass parameters individually, while the shape and the color of the markers determines the training dataset and the batch sizes. One can clearly notice that when APRIL losses are absent the RL1 result for the common sum is worse tha… view at source ↗
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Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) embed the partial differential equations (PDEs) governing the system under study directly into the training of Neural Networks, ensuring solutions that respect physical laws. While effective for single-system problems, standard PINNs scale poorly to datasets containing many realizations of the same underlying physics with varying parameters. To address this limitation, we present a complementary approach by including auxiliary physically-redundant information in loss (APRIL), i.e. augment the standard supervised output-target loss with auxiliary terms which exploit exact physical redundancy relations among outputs. We mathematically demonstrate that these terms preserve the true physical minimum while reshaping the loss landscape, improving convergence toward physically consistent solutions. As a proof-of-concept, we benchmark APRIL on a fully-connected neural network for gravitational wave (GW) parameter estimation (PE). We use simulated, noise-free compact binary coalescence (CBC) signals, focusing on inspiral-frequency waveforms to recover the chirp mass $\mathcal{M}$, the total mass $M_\mathrm{tot}$, and symmetric mass ratio $\eta$ of the binary. In this controlled setting, we show that APRIL achieves up to an order-of-magnitude improvement in test accuracy, especially for parameters that are otherwise difficult to learn. This method provides physically consistent learning for large multi-system datasets and is well suited for future GW analyses involving realistic noise and broader parameter ranges.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces APRIL, a framework that augments the standard supervised loss in neural networks with auxiliary terms enforcing exact physical redundancy relations among output parameters (e.g., among chirp mass ℳ, total mass M_tot, and symmetric mass ratio η). It claims a mathematical demonstration that these terms preserve the true physical minimum while reshaping the loss landscape to improve convergence, and reports up to an order-of-magnitude accuracy gain in a proof-of-concept gravitational-wave parameter estimation task using a fully-connected network on noise-free simulated inspiral waveforms.

Significance. If the mathematical preservation result holds beyond the noise-free exact-match case and the accuracy gains are reproducible with baselines and error bars, APRIL could provide a lightweight, scalable complement to standard PINNs for enforcing consistency across large multi-system datasets in gravitational-wave astronomy and similar parameter-estimation problems.

major comments (2)
  1. [Mathematical demonstration] Mathematical demonstration (likely §3 or equivalent): the claim that auxiliary redundancy terms 'preserve the true physical minimum' is shown only under the assumption that network outputs satisfy the relations exactly (true by construction for noise-free simulated waveforms); the manuscript provides no explicit derivation steps or analysis of how the weighted auxiliary terms shift the effective minimum when additive noise or imperfect network representation makes the relations inconsistent with the data.
  2. [Results section] Results on accuracy improvement (likely §4 or Table/Figure reporting test accuracy): the order-of-magnitude gain is stated without baseline comparisons to the unaugmented loss, without error bars or statistical significance on the metrics, and without details on test-set size or cross-validation, undermining verification of the central empirical claim.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Introduction] Notation: the abstract and introduction use both ℳ and M_tot without an early explicit statement of the exact redundancy relation (e.g., ℳ = (M_tot η)^{3/5} (1-η)^{1/5} or equivalent) that the auxiliary terms enforce.
  2. [Discussion] The manuscript states the method is 'well suited for future GW analyses involving realistic noise' but contains no discussion or preliminary test of how the auxiliary weighting should be chosen or annealed when noise is present.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive and detailed report. We address each major comment below and describe the revisions we will make to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: Mathematical demonstration (likely §3 or equivalent): the claim that auxiliary redundancy terms 'preserve the true physical minimum' is shown only under the assumption that network outputs satisfy the relations exactly (true by construction for noise-free simulated waveforms); the manuscript provides no explicit derivation steps or analysis of how the weighted auxiliary terms shift the effective minimum when additive noise or imperfect network representation makes the relations inconsistent with the data.

    Authors: We agree that the current mathematical demonstration is developed explicitly for the exact-match case that holds by construction in our noise-free proof-of-concept. The derivation establishes that the auxiliary terms evaluate to zero at the ground-truth parameters (where the redundancy relations are satisfied) and are strictly non-negative elsewhere, thereby leaving the location of the true minimum unchanged. We did not supply a full perturbation analysis for small inconsistencies arising from noise or network approximation error. In the revision we will add explicit derivation steps in Section 3 together with a short analytical example showing that, for small deviations, the auxiliary terms act as a restoring force toward consistency without introducing new spurious minima near the physical solution. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Results on accuracy improvement (likely §4 or Table/Figure reporting test accuracy): the order-of-magnitude gain is stated without baseline comparisons to the unaugmented loss, without error bars or statistical significance on the metrics, and without details on test-set size or cross-validation, undermining verification of the central empirical claim.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the results section would benefit from more complete reporting. While the improvement is measured relative to standard supervised training, we will revise the section to include an explicit side-by-side comparison table, report means and standard deviations over five independent runs with different random seeds, state the test-set size (1000 waveforms), and describe the single hold-out evaluation protocol. We will also add a brief note explaining why cross-validation was not performed in this controlled proof-of-concept study. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in APRIL derivation or claims

full rationale

The paper introduces auxiliary loss terms exploiting exact physical redundancies among outputs (chirp mass, total mass, symmetric mass ratio) and states a mathematical demonstration that these terms preserve the true physical minimum while reshaping the landscape. This demonstration relies on the algebraic properties of the added terms being zero at the true parameter values satisfying the redundancies, which is an independent property of the loss construction rather than a reduction to fitted inputs or self-citation. The GW parameter estimation results are presented as a controlled proof-of-concept on noise-free simulated waveforms, with reported accuracy gains treated as empirical observations rather than quantities forced by the equations themselves. No load-bearing step reduces by construction to the inputs; the framework remains self-contained against external benchmarks of loss augmentation.

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The central claim rests on the existence of exact, a-priori known physical redundancy relations among output parameters that can be turned into auxiliary loss terms without shifting the true minimum.

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  • domain assumption Exact physical redundancy relations exist among the network outputs (e.g., algebraic relations linking chirp mass, total mass, and symmetric mass ratio) and can be expressed as auxiliary loss terms.
    The method explicitly relies on these relations to augment the loss while preserving the physical minimum.

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