Strengthening our grip on food security by encoding physics into AI
Marcel B.J. MeindersJack YangErik van der Linden
Marcel B.J. MeindersJack YangErik van der Linden
Nov 2023
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Climate change will jeopardize food security. Food security involves the robustness of the global agri-food system. This agri-food system is intricately connected to systems centering around health, economy, social-cultural diversity, and global political stability. A systematic way to determine acceptable interventions in the global agri-food systems involves analyses at different spatial and temporal scales. Such multi-scale analyses are common within physics. Unfortunately, physics alone is not sufficient. Machine learning techniques may aid. We focus on neural networks (NN) into which physics-based information is encoded (PeNN) and apply it to a sub-problem within the agri-food system. We show that the mean squared error of the PeNN is always smaller than that of the NNs, in the order of a factor of thousand. Furthermore, the PeNNs capture extra and interpolation very well, contrary to the NNs. It is shown that PeNNs need a much smaller data set size than the NNs to achieve a similar mse. Our results suggest that the incorporation of physics into neural networks architectures yields promise for addressing food security.
