Accelerate Neural Subspace-Based Reduced-Order Solver of Deformable Simulation by Lipschitz Optimization

TL;DR

This paper introduces a Lipschitz optimization method to enhance neural subspace-based reduced-order simulations, significantly accelerating deformable object simulations while maintaining accuracy.

Contribution

It proposes a general Lipschitz energy optimization approach for neural reduced-order models, improving convergence speed and acceleration in deformable simulation tasks.

Findings

Achieves up to 6.83x acceleration in simulations

Maintains comparable accuracy across various deformation scenarios

Applicable to both supervised and unsupervised settings

Abstract

Reduced-order simulation is an emerging method for accelerating physical simulations with high DOFs, and recently developed neural-network-based methods with nonlinear subspaces have been proven effective in diverse applications as more concise subspaces can be detected. However, the complexity and landscape of simulation objectives within the subspace have not been optimized, which leaves room for enhancement of the convergence speed. This work focuses on this point by proposing a general method for finding optimized subspace mappings, enabling further acceleration of neural reduced-order simulations while capturing comprehensive representations of the configuration manifolds. We achieve this by optimizing the Lipschitz energy of the elasticity term in the simulation objective, and incorporating the cubature approximation into the training process to manage the high memory and time demands associated with optimizing the newly introduced energy. Our method is versatile and applicable to both supervised and unsupervised settings for optimizing the parameterizations of the configuration manifolds. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach through general cases in both quasi-static and dynamics simulations. Our method achieves acceleration factors of up to 6.83 while consistently preserving comparable simulation accuracy in various cases, including large twisting, bending, and rotational deformations with collision handling. This novel approach offers significant potential for accelerating physical simulations, and can be a good add-on to existing neural-network-based solutions in modeling complex deformable objects.