Multiphase-Diff: Diffusion-Based Generative Modeling for High-Contrast Multiphase Physical Systems with Sharp Interfaces
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Abstract (arXiv)
Physics-constrained diffusion for high-contrast, sharp-interface multiphase fields faces three coupled difficulties. At coefficient jumps, expanded pointwise strong-form PDE residuals contain singular gradient terms that can penalize physical interfaces. Under extreme contrast, low-magnitude phases may fall below the diffusion noise floor and be erased, misscaled, or generated with negative coefficients, while a global likelihood scale allows high-magnitude phases to dominate supervision. We therefore propose Multiphase-Diff, which makes three corresponding contributions: (i) a conservative flux residual that avoids differentiating discontinuous coefficients and enforces discrete conservation; (ii) an analytic bijective representation that maps low-amplitude signals to order-one latent scales and guarantees coefficient positivity through exponential decoding; and (iii) a Jacobi-preconditioned likelihood that normalizes local residual scales for balanced supervision. Experiments on three complementary multiphase benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of Multiphase-Diff over seven baselines in both physical and distributional fidelity and its robustness across phase contrasts and compositions, establishing its effectiveness for scientific sample generation in this challenging regime.
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