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Finite Element-Based Material Learning via Automatic Differentiation: Learning constitutive neural network models from full-field deformation data

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Pith's one-line read FE-MAD places constitutive neural networks inside a JAX finite element solver and identifies their parameters by gradient descent on the mismatch between predicted and measured full-field deformations.

desk verdict FE-MAD embeds a constitutive NN inside a JAX-FEM solver and backprops through the Newton loop to fit parameters directly to full-field DIC data. read the letter →

arxiv 2606.05199 v1 pith:BJFHOQPY submitted 2026-05-22 physics.comp-ph cs.AI

Matthias Knipper , Chenyi Ji , Malte Brand , Kevin Linka This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords constitutiveneuralnetworksfiniteelementmethodautomaticdifferentiationmaterialparameteridentificationhyperelasticityfull-fielddatadigitalimagecorrelationJAX
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The reading

The paper establishes that an end-to-end differentiable finite element pipeline can optimize the internal parameters of a constitutive neural network so that simulated displacements and forces match experimental observations across heterogeneous tests. A sympathetic reader would care because this removes the need for separate homogeneous calibration experiments, manual derivative derivations, or large external training sets that other data-driven approaches require. The method is shown for both a flexible grey-box polyconvex network and an interpretable white-box expert network on three open datasets covering full DIC fields, reduced one-dimensional data plus global force, and simultaneous identification of matrix and inclusion phases that then generalize to new samples.

What carries the argument

The end-to-end differentiable JAX-FEM pipeline that couples the constitutive neural network directly to the solver, allowing automatic computation of both the tangent stiffness matrix for Newton iterations and the gradients of the measurement-mismatch loss with respect to network parameters.

What would settle it

If the parameters recovered by FE-MAD produce large discrepancies when the learned model is applied to an independent experiment with new geometry or loading conditions not present in the identification data, the claim of reliable generalizable identification would be falsified.

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Core claim

FE-MAD integrates a constitutive neural network model within a JAX-FEM nonlinear solver and identifies its parameters through gradient-based minimization of a measurement-mismatch loss, with Newton tangent stiffness and loss gradients computed automatically using forward- and reverse-mode automatic differentiation throughout the pipeline. The approach is demonstrated for incompressible isotropic hyperelasticity using a grey-box polyconvex fully-connected CANN and a white-box expert-system CANN on three experimental datasets: perforated tensile specimens with DIC, a reduced-data stretch-plus-force case, and a heterogeneous matrix-inclusion system where both phases are recovered and tested on

Load-bearing premise

The selected neural network architectures are expressive enough and the full-field data informative enough to recover unique, physically valid parameters that do not overfit noise or converge to non-physical local minima.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Material parameters for both high-flexibility grey-box and interpretable white-box constitutive networks can be obtained directly from heterogeneous full-field measurements.
  • No analytic adjoints or offline surrogate models are required because all necessary derivatives are obtained automatically.
  • The same framework recovers parameters in full DIC, reduced one-dimensional plus global force, and simultaneous multi-phase identification settings.
  • Learned models generalize to previously unseen samples in the matrix-inclusion demonstration.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The method could be extended to path-dependent materials by incorporating history variables into the same differentiable solver loop.
  • Joint optimization of specimen geometry and material parameters becomes feasible within one gradient-based loop.
  • The approach may allow experimenters to design more informative specimen shapes that maximize information gain per test rather than relying on standard homogeneous geometries.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces FE-MAD, an end-to-end differentiable framework that integrates constitutive artificial neural network (CANN) models into a JAX-based finite element nonlinear solver. Parameters are identified via gradient-based minimization of a measurement-mismatch loss, with Newton tangent stiffness and loss gradients obtained automatically through forward- and reverse-mode automatic differentiation. The method is demonstrated for grey-box (polyconvex fully-connected) and white-box (expert-system) CANN architectures on three open experimental datasets for incompressible isotropic hyperelasticity, including full DIC data from a perforated tensile specimen, a reduced-data one-dimensional stretch plus force-displacement case, and a heterogeneous matrix-inclusion system with generalization to 22 unseen samples.

Significance. If the results hold, FE-MAD offers a computationally tractable route to calibrating high-dimensional constitutive models directly from heterogeneous full-field data without analytic adjoints or offline surrogates. The end-to-end use of automatic differentiation in the solver pipeline is a clear technical strength, and the evaluation across multiple datasets with an explicit generalization test provides concrete evidence of practical utility. The dual grey-box/white-box architecture choice also allows both flexibility and interpretability to be assessed within the same framework.

minor comments (3)
  1. The precise form of the data-mismatch loss, any regularization terms, and the treatment of incompressibility constraints (e.g., via penalty, Lagrange multipliers, or mixed formulation) are not fully detailed in the provided abstract; explicit equations or pseudocode in §3 or §4 would improve reproducibility.
  2. The manuscript should clarify the number of trainable parameters and the specific network widths/depths for both CANN architectures, as this directly affects the claim of handling high-dimensional parameter spaces.
  3. Figure captions and the description of the matrix-inclusion generalization test would benefit from explicit mention of the error metrics used to quantify performance on the 22 unseen samples.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their positive assessment of FE-MAD, the recognition of its technical strengths in end-to-end automatic differentiation, and the recommendation for minor revision. No major comments were raised in the report.

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full rationale

The paper presents an end-to-end differentiable finite-element framework (FE-MAD) that embeds a constitutive neural network inside a JAX-based nonlinear solver and identifies its parameters by gradient-based minimization of a measurement-mismatch loss against external experimental DIC data. The derivation chain consists of standard forward/reverse-mode AD steps for tangent stiffness and loss gradients; no equation reduces a fitted quantity to a prediction of the same quantity by construction, no uniqueness theorem is imported from the authors' prior work to force the architecture, and no ansatz is smuggled via self-citation. The central claim therefore remains self-contained against the supplied full-field measurements and does not exhibit any of the enumerated circularity patterns.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 2 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The framework rests on standard continuum-mechanics assumptions for hyperelasticity plus the modeling choice that the selected NN families can represent the true constitutive response; no new physical entities are introduced.

free parameters (1)
  • CANN network weights
    Learned by gradient descent on the measurement-mismatch loss; their values are the output of the method rather than fixed inputs.
assumptions (2)
  • domain assumption The materials under study are incompressible and isotropic hyperelastic
    Explicitly stated as the modeling focus; required for the strain-energy formulations used.
  • standard math The finite-element discretization and Newton solver converge to the correct weak solution for the chosen constitutive model
    Implicit in any FEM pipeline; not re-derived in the abstract.

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The identification of constitutive neural network models from heterogeneous full-field deformation data provides a robust alternative to traditional calibration methods based on homogeneous stress-strain experiments, particularly given the high dimensionality of trainable parameters. Existing approaches must balance generality, robustness, and computational efficiency: Conventional finite element model updating is broadly applicable but computationally demanding; weak-form methods offer efficiency but are sensitive to noise and data scarcity; neural operator models are highly expressive but require extensive training datasets. This work presents FE-MAD (Finite Element-Based Material learning via Automatic Differentiation), an end-to-end differentiable framework that integrates a constitutive neural network model within a JAX-FEM nonlinear solver and identifies its parameters through gradient-based minimization of a measurement-mismatch loss. Newton tangent stiffness and loss gradients are computed automatically using forward- and reverse-mode automatic differentiation throughout the entire pipeline, thereby removing the need for analytic adjoints or offline surrogate models. FE-MAD is demonstrated for two architectures: a grey-box Constitutive Artificial Neural Network (CANN), a polyconvex, fully connected model with high flexibility, and a white-box CANN, an expert-system network with phenomenologically interpretable strain-energy terms. Focusing on incompressible isotropic hyperelasticity, FE-MAD is evaluated on three open experimental datasets: (1) full digital image correlation (DIC) of a perforated tensile specimen, (2) a reduced-data scenario with a one-dimensional stretch profile and global force-displacement curve, and (3) a heterogeneous matrix-inclusion system in which both phases constitutive laws are identified and generalized to twenty-two previously unseen samples.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Constitutive artificial neural network architectures employed in this work. (a) Grey-box CANN: a fully connected feedforward network with arbitrary depth and width that yields a polyconvex free-energy function by construction. (b) White-box CANN: a partially connected, two-layer expert system whose eight terms recover classical phenomenological constitutive blocks (neo-Hookean, Demiray, Gent type) and therefore prov… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Schematic of the proposed end-to-end FE-MAD training loop. Full-field displacement measurements uref j obtained, e.g., from digital image correlation, together with the global reaction-force measurements F obs j , define the experimental observables. For each candidate parameter vector θ of the constitutive neural network, the JAX-FEM solver assembles the nonlinear residual, performs a Newton solve with automaticall… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Case 1, perforated tensile specimens TT1 and TT2. Top: undeformed wide dogbone-shaped specimens with the region of interest (ROI) used for the FE model highlighted. Only the ROI is meshed with finite elements. Bottom: the same ROIs at maximum deformation, color-coded by the maximum principal stretch λ1 obtained from the FE simulation. Pronounced stretch concentrations are visible at the hole boundaries, in particula… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Case 1, loss evolution during training. Evolution of the displacement loss Lu (red) and the reaction-force loss LF (orange) as a function of the training epoch for the three training configurations (columns: TT1, UT & PS, UT) and the two architectures (rows: grey-box C…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Case 1, training–testing matrix of stress–stretch curves. Stress–stretch responses of all six trained models (grey￾box and white-box CANN, three training configurations) on the homogeneous tests UT and PS and on the reaction-force curve of the heterogeneous specimen TT…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Case 1, displacement field on TT1. For each training configuration (columns: UT, UT & PS, TT1), the figure compares the DIC-measured vertical displacement field uy (top row, black contour lines on filled colormap) with the FE prediction (overlaid blue contours for the …
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Case 1, maximum principal stretch field on TT1. For each training configuration (columns: UT, UT & PS, TT1), the figure compares the DIC-derived maximum principal stretch λ1 (top row, black contour lines on filled colormap) with the FE prediction (overlaid blue contour…
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Case 1, distributions of the pointwise relative error on TT1. Empirical distributions of the relative error of the predicted displacement field (left) and of the maximum principal stretch (right) on the training specimen TT1, derived from Figures 6 and 7. Each violin s…
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Case 1, reaction force on the unseen specimen TT2. Comparison of the measured force–displacement curve of TT2 (black) with the responses simulated by all six trained models (grey-box and white-box CANN, three training configurations). The models trained on TT1 overesti…
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Case 1, displacement field on the unseen specimen TT2. For each training configuration (columns: UT, UT & PS, TT1) and each architecture (grey-box and white-box CANN), the figure compares the DIC-measured vertical displacement field uy (top row, black contour lines on…
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Case 1, kinematic content of the training and testing data. Left: projection of the training (and testing) sets UT, PS, and TT1 into the (I1, I2) invariant plane. Center: projection of the unseen testing set TT2 into the same plane. Right: histogram of the maximum pri…
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Case 2, five-hole tensile specimen TT. Specimen TT in the undeformed reference state (left) and at maximum deformation of uy,top = 57.3 mm (right), color-coded by the maximum principal stretch λ1. The narrow ligament between holes C1 and C3 is cut, resulting in a high…
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Case 2, loss evolution during training. Evolution of the stretch loss Lλ (red) and the reaction-force loss LF (orange) for the three training configurations (columns: TT, UT & PS, UT) and the two architectures (rows: grey-box CANN, white-box CANN). In contrast to Case…
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Case 2, model discovery with the white-box CANN. Stress–stretch responses of the three white-box CANN models on the homogeneous tests UT and PS, and reaction-force response on the heterogeneous specimen TT. Each row corresponds to a training configuration (TT, UT & PS…
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Case 2, maximum principal stretch along the measurement path of TT. Comparison of the experimentally measured maximum principal stretch λ1 along the path through holes C1–C2 (black markers) with the FE predictions of the grey￾box CANN (yellow) and the white-box CANN (…
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Case 2, full material response of the identified models. Stress–stretch responses of all six trained models on a broad battery of homogeneous deformations: uniaxial tension and compression (UT, UC), plane-strain tension and compression (PS, PSC), and equibiaxial bulge…
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Case 3, ground-truth fields of the heterogeneous material system. (a) DIC labeling of a representative thin plate specimen, with blue indicating the matrix and orange the inclusion [72]. (b) Corresponding measured vertical displacement field uy at the final load step.…
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: Case 3, identified heterogeneous material system applied to training and unseen specimens. Rows: training specimen (top), best-case unseen specimen (middle), worst-case unseen specimen (bottom). Columns: force–displacement curve (left), vertical displacement field uy …
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: Case 3, distribution of testing losses across unseen specimens. Empirical distributions of the displacement loss Lu (left) and the reaction-force loss LF (right) across the twenty-two unseen specimens, for the grey-box and white-box CANN trained simultaneously on the …

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