Accelerating Chemical Kinetics for Exoplanet Atmospheres using Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00428v1
• Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:06:22 GMT
• Title: Accelerating Chemical Kinetics for Exoplanet Atmospheres using Neural Networks
• Abstract summary: We present a machine learning local-box chemical kinetics solver for exoplanet atmospheres.<n>We demonstrate that this surrogate model is several orders of magnitude faster than a classical solver.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Observations increasingly reveal the coupled radiative, chemical, and dynamical processes that shape exoplanet atmospheres. Interpreting these atmospheres requires models that can capture this complexity. However, multidimensional models remain fundamentally limited by computational cost, and answering key questions requires simulating the governing physical mechanisms at speeds classical methods cannot achieve. As a result, models often rely on simplifying approximations, such as equilibrium chemistry, even when those assumptions miss important effects. There is a pressing need for fast and accurate chemical kinetics solvers to model planetary atmospheres. Here we present a machine learning local-box chemical kinetics solver for exoplanet atmospheres using a residual flow-map architecture. We demonstrate that this surrogate model is several orders of magnitude faster than a classical solver, achieving microsecond-scale inference while retaining percent-level accuracy. The surrogate model covers a parameter space that spans $T=300$-$3000$ K, $P=10^{-6}$-$10^{4}$ bar, $Δt=10^{-3}$-$10^{8}$ s, and compositions ranging from $10^{-2}$ to $10^{3}$ times solar in both C/O ratio and metallicity. Our model outperforms several commonly used machine learning architectures and performs robustly under the extreme stiffness characteristic of atmospheric chemistry. The machine learning framework presented here is a flexible and efficient approach to emulating state-to-state flow-map problems that commonly arise in numerical simulations.

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