<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Physics Foundation Models]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Megathread for physics foundation models for scientific machine learning and engineering simulation, from compact local models to large compute-bound systems.</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.objects.foundation/topic/26/physics-foundation-models</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:53:57 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://forum.objects.foundation/topic/26.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:29:47 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Physics Foundation Models on Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:41:33 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<h1>General Physics Transformer</h1>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Hugging Face</strong>: <a href="https://huggingface.co/flwi/Physics-Foundation-Model" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://huggingface.co/flwi/Physics-Foundation-Model</a><br />
<strong>GitHub</strong>: <a href="https://github.com/FloWsnr/General-Physics-Transformer" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://github.com/FloWsnr/General-Physics-Transformer</a><br />
<strong>Website</strong>: <a href="https://flowsnr.github.io/blog/physics-foundation-model/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://flowsnr.github.io/blog/physics-foundation-model/</a><br />
<strong>Technical report</strong>: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13805" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13805</a></p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Developer</strong>: FloWsnr<br />
<strong>Released</strong>: September 2025<br />
<strong>Variants</strong>: S, M, L, XL<br />
<strong>Architecture</strong>: Transformer-based neural differentiator with numerical integration<br />
<strong>License</strong>: MIT<br />
<strong>Modalities</strong>: Physical fields in, physical fields out; eight fluid, solid, shock, thermal, and multiphase systems<br />
<strong>Runs on</strong>: Desktop GPU, NVIDIA only<br />
<strong>Formats</strong>: PyTorch .pth<br />
<strong>On disk</strong>: S: 32.0MB / M: 446MB / L: 1.54GB / XL: 3.18GB</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.objects.foundation/post/174</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.objects.foundation/post/174</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[montez]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:41:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Physics Foundation Models on Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:41:17 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<h1>LANL MORPH</h1>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Hugging Face</strong>: <a href="https://huggingface.co/mahindrautela/MORPH" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://huggingface.co/mahindrautela/MORPH</a><br />
<strong>GitHub</strong>: <a href="https://github.com/lanl/MORPH" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://github.com/lanl/MORPH</a><br />
<strong>Technical report</strong>: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21670" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21670</a></p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Developer</strong>: Los Alamos National Laboratory<br />
<strong>Released</strong>: September 2025<br />
<strong>Variants</strong>: Ti, S, M, L, XL<br />
<strong>Architecture</strong>: Shape-agnostic vision transformer PDE surrogate with arbitrary data-modality support; full fine-tuning and LoRA adaptation<br />
<strong>License</strong>: MIT<br />
<strong>Modalities</strong>: PDE fields in, PDE fields out; mixed scalar and vector fields across 1D, 2D, and 3D systems<br />
<strong>Runs on</strong>: Desktop GPU, NVIDIA only<br />
<strong>Formats</strong>: PyTorch .pth<br />
<strong>On disk</strong>: Ti: 110MB / S: 361MB / M: 1.36GB / L: 5.26GB / XL: 11.8GB</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.objects.foundation/post/173</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.objects.foundation/post/173</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[montez]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:41:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Physics Foundation Models on Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:41:02 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<h1>PDEformer-2</h1>
<p dir="auto"><strong>GitHub</strong>: <a href="https://github.com/functoreality/pdeformer-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://github.com/functoreality/pdeformer-2</a><br />
<strong>Technical report</strong>: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15409" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15409</a></p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Developer</strong>: Functoreality<br />
<strong>Released</strong>: July 2025<br />
<strong>Variants</strong>: Small, Fast, Base, Base-WDFE<br />
<strong>Parameters</strong>: Small: 27.75M / Fast: 71.07M / Base: 82.65M / Base-WDFE: 84.70M<br />
<strong>Architecture</strong>: Computational-graph encoder with a graph Transformer and an implicit neural representation decoder; Base-WDFE uses a weighted DeepSet function encoder for scattered-point inputs<br />
<strong>License</strong>: Apache 2.0<br />
<strong>Modalities</strong>: Symbolic 2D PDEs and numeric fields in, 2D solution fields out; arbitrary spatio-temporal query coordinates<br />
<strong>Runs on</strong>: CPU<br />
<strong>Formats</strong>: MindSpore checkpoint</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.objects.foundation/post/172</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.objects.foundation/post/172</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[montez]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:41:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Physics Foundation Models on Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:40:47 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<h1>Polymathic AI Walrus</h1>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Hugging Face</strong>: <a href="https://huggingface.co/polymathic-ai/walrus" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://huggingface.co/polymathic-ai/walrus</a><br />
<strong>GitHub</strong>: <a href="https://github.com/PolymathicAI/walrus" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://github.com/PolymathicAI/walrus</a><br />
<strong>Website</strong>: <a href="https://polymathic-ai.org/blog/walrus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://polymathic-ai.org/blog/walrus/</a><br />
<strong>Technical report</strong>: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15684" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15684</a></p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Developer</strong>: Polymathic-AI<br />
<strong>Released</strong>: November 2025<br />
<strong>Parameters</strong>: 1.3B<br />
<strong>Architecture</strong>: Transformer-based continuum-dynamics model with compute-adaptive patching, dimensional augmentation, and randomized compression<br />
<strong>License</strong>: MIT<br />
<strong>Modalities</strong>: Continuum-dynamics fields in, continuum-dynamics fields out; mixed 2D and 3D physical fields across acoustics, fluids, plasma, active matter, and astrophysics<br />
<strong>Runs on</strong>: Desktop GPU<br />
<strong>Formats</strong>: PyTorch, safetensors<br />
<strong>On disk</strong>: 5.15GB PyTorch / 5.14GB safetensors</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.objects.foundation/post/171</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.objects.foundation/post/171</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[montez]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:40:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Physics Foundation Models on Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:40:28 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<h1>TUM Tadpole</h1>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Hugging Face</strong>: <a href="https://huggingface.co/thuerey-group/Tadpole" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://huggingface.co/thuerey-group/Tadpole</a><br />
<strong>GitHub</strong>: <a href="https://github.com/tum-pbs/Tadpole" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://github.com/tum-pbs/Tadpole</a><br />
<strong>Website</strong>: <a href="https://ge.in.tum.de/2026/05/18/tadpole-flexible-scientific-foundation-models/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://ge.in.tum.de/2026/05/18/tadpole-flexible-scientific-foundation-models/</a><br />
<strong>Technical report</strong>: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15284" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15284</a></p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Developer</strong>: Thuerey Group, Technical University of Munich<br />
<strong>Released</strong>: May 2026<br />
<strong>Variants</strong>: S, B, L; only B weights released<br />
<strong>Parameters</strong>: S: 8.8M / B: 38.1M / L: 152.1M<br />
<strong>Resolution</strong>: pre-trained at 64, 128, 256 and 384 cubed, evaluated to 1024 cubed<br />
<strong>Architecture</strong>: 3D PDE autoencoder pre-trained on single-channel 64x64x64 crops, P3D hybrid backbone with convolutional stages and a transformer bottleneck, adversarial reconstruction loss; latent compression 16 (S) / 8 (B) / 4 (L); Tadpole-DFT adds LoRA, a latent dynamics sub-network, and zero-initialized skip connections for rollout<br />
<strong>License</strong>: Apache 2.0<br />
<strong>Modalities</strong>: 3D PDE fields in, 3D PDE fields out<br />
<strong>Runs on</strong>: Autoencoding: Laptop / Dynamics: Desktop GPU, NVIDIA only<br />
<strong>Formats</strong>: safetensors, separate encoder and decoder<br />
<strong>On disk</strong>: B: 60.4MB encoder, 92.6MB decoder</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.objects.foundation/post/170</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://forum.objects.foundation/post/170</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[montez]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:40:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Physics Foundation Models on Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:37:20 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<h1>ETH Zurich Poseidon</h1>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Hugging Face</strong>: <a href="https://huggingface.co/camlab-ethz/Poseidon-T" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://huggingface.co/camlab-ethz/Poseidon-T</a>, <a href="https://huggingface.co/camlab-ethz/Poseidon-B" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://huggingface.co/camlab-ethz/Poseidon-B</a>, <a href="https://huggingface.co/camlab-ethz/Poseidon-L" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://huggingface.co/camlab-ethz/Poseidon-L</a><br />
<strong>GitHub</strong>: <a href="https://github.com/camlab-ethz/poseidon" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://github.com/camlab-ethz/poseidon</a><br />
<strong>Website</strong>: <a href="https://camlab-ethz.github.io/poseidon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://camlab-ethz.github.io/poseidon/</a><br />
<strong>Technical report</strong>: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19101" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19101</a></p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>Developer</strong>: CAMLab, Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH Zurich<br />
<strong>Released</strong>: May 2024<br />
<strong>Variants</strong>: T, B, L<br />
<strong>Parameters</strong>: T: 21M / B: 158M / L: 629M<br />
<strong>Resolution</strong>: 128x128 grid, 4 channels<br />
<strong>Architecture</strong>: scOT multiscale operator transformer on a SwinV2 backbone, time-conditioned layer norm for continuous-in-time evaluation, 4 hierarchical stages, patch 4, shifted window 16, ConvNeXt residual path; T: embed 48, depths 4/4/4/4 / B: embed 96, depths 8/8/8/8 / L: embed 192, depths 8/8/8/8<br />
<strong>License</strong>: CC BY-NC 4.0<br />
<strong>Modalities</strong>: 2D PDE fields in, 2D PDE fields out; density, horizontal velocity, vertical velocity, pressure<br />
<strong>Runs on</strong>: T/B: Laptop / L: Laptop, 8GB+ memory<br />
<strong>Formats</strong>: safetensors float32, PyTorch bin<br />
<strong>On disk</strong>: T: 83.2MB / B: 631.1MB / L: 2.51GB safetensors</p>
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