Kinetic Theory: Novel Statistical, Stochastic and Analytical Methods: Generative artificial intelligence methods for particle-based kinetic computations
Presenter
October 21, 2025
Keywords:
- Kinetic theory and Stochastic particle systems
- mean field plasma and radiation dynamics
- Boltzmann and Landau type equations and systems
- hydrodynamic limits
- enhanced dissipation
- quasi-neutral limits
- swarming and flocking
- mean-field games
MSC:
- 35Bxx - Qualitative properties of solutions to partial differential equations
- 35Lxx - Hyperbolic equations and hyperbolic systems {For global analysis
- see 58J45}
- 35Q20 - Boltzmann equations {For fluid mechanics
- see 76P05
- for statistical mechanics
- see 82B40
- 82C40
- 82D05}
- 35Q35 - PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics
- 35Q40 - PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics
- 35Q49 - Transport equations {For calculus of variations and optimal control
- see 49Q22
- for fluid mechanics
- see 76F25
- see 82C70
- 82D75
- for operations research
- see 90B06
- for mathematical programming
- see 90C08}
- 35Q70 - PDEs in connection with mechanics of particles and systems of particles
- 35Q82 - PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics
- 35Q83 - Vlasov equations {For statistical mechanics
- 82D75}
- 35Q84 - Fokker-Planck equations {For fluid mechanics
- see 76X05
- 76W05
- see 82C31}
- 35Q89 - PDEs in connection with mean field game theory {For calculus of variations and optimal control
- see 49N80
- for game theory
- see 91A16}
- 35Q91 - PDEs in connection with game theory
- economics
- social and behavioral sciences
- 35Q92 - PDEs in connection with biology
- chemistry and other natural sciences
- 60Gxx - Stochastic processes
- 60Hxx - Stochastic analysis [See also 58J65]
- 70Fxx - Dynamics of a system of particles
- including celestial mechanics
- 70Lxx - Random and stochastic aspects of the mechanics of particles and systems
- 82D05 - Statistical mechanics of gases
- 82D10 - Statistical mechanics of plasmas
Abstract
We report recent progress on the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) methods to accelerate particle-based plasma kinetic computations. These computations are time-consuming due to multiscale dynamics, boundary conditions, and the need to follow large ensembles of particles to avoid statistical sampling errors. The physics models of interest are Fokker-Planck (FP) equations for the particle distribution function in phase space including drifts, diffusion, and collisions. The AI methods include Normalizing Flows (NF) and Diffusion Models (DM). We present a pseudo-reversible NF model that learns the distribution of the final state conditioned to the initial state, such that the model only needs to be trained once and then used to handle arbitrary initial conditions [1]. Following this, we present results based on the use of DM that allow the quantification of confinement losses in bounded domains. We propose a unified hybrid data-driven approach that combines a conditional DM with an exit prediction neural network to capture both interior stochastic dynamics and boundary exit phenomena [2]. Convergence analysis, along with numerical test experiments are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods. We present applications to advection-diffusion transport in 3D chaotic flows, and the generation and confinement of runaway electrons in magnetically confined fusion plasmas.
[1] M. Yang et al, SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, 46, (4) C508-C533 (2024).
[2] M. Yang et al, Submitted to J. Comp. Phys. arXiv:2507.15990v1 (2025).