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Towards a Physics Foundation Model

Towards a Physics Foundation Model

Update: 2025-10-03
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In this episode, we discuss Towards a Physics Foundation Model by Florian Wiesner, Matthias Wessling, Stephen Baek. This paper introduces the General Physics Transformer (GPhyT), a foundation model trained on diverse simulation data that can simulate multiple complex physical systems without explicit knowledge of governing equations. GPhyT outperforms specialized models by up to 29 times, generalizes zero-shot to unseen physics tasks, and maintains stable predictions over long time horizons. This work demonstrates the feasibility of a universal physics foundation model, potentially revolutionizing computational science by eliminating the need for task-specific solvers.
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