NeuralOGCM: Differentiable Ocean Modeling with Learnable Physics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11525v1
• Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:53:46 GMT
• Title: NeuralOGCM: Differentiable Ocean Modeling with Learnable Physics
• Authors: Hao Wu, Yuan Gao, Fan Xu, Fan Zhang, Guangliang Liu, Yuxuan Liang, Xiaomeng Huang,
• Abstract summary: We propose NeuralOGCM, an ocean modeling framework that fuses differentiable programming with deep learning.<n>The learnable physics integration captures large-scale, deterministic physical evolution, and transforms key physical parameters into learnable parameters.<n>A deep neural network learns to correct for subgrid-scale processes and discretization errors not captured by the physics model.<n>Experiments demonstrate that NeuralOGCM maintains long-term stability and physical consistency, significantly outperforming traditional numerical models in speed and pure AI baselines in accuracy.
• Score: 38.88216084180426
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: High-precision scientific simulation faces a long-standing trade-off between computational efficiency and physical fidelity. To address this challenge, we propose NeuralOGCM, an ocean modeling framework that fuses differentiable programming with deep learning. At the core of NeuralOGCM is a fully differentiable dynamical solver, which leverages physics knowledge as its core inductive bias. The learnable physics integration captures large-scale, deterministic physical evolution, and transforms key physical parameters (e.g., diffusion coefficients) into learnable parameters, enabling the model to autonomously optimize its physical core via end-to-end training. Concurrently, a deep neural network learns to correct for subgrid-scale processes and discretization errors not captured by the physics model. Both components work in synergy, with their outputs integrated by a unified ODE solver. Experiments demonstrate that NeuralOGCM maintains long-term stability and physical consistency, significantly outperforming traditional numerical models in speed and pure AI baselines in accuracy. Our work paves a new path for building fast, stable, and physically-plausible models for scientific computing.

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