Physics-informed machine learning in geotechnical engineering: a direction paper
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This direction paper explores the evolving landscape of physics-informed machine learning (PIML) methodologies in the field of geotechnical engineering, aiming to provide a comprehensive overview of current advancements and propose future research directions. Recognising the intrinsic connection between geophysical phenomena and geotechnical processes, we delve into the intersection of physics-based models and machine learning techniques. The paper begins by elucidating the significance of incorporating physics-informed approaches, emphasising their potential to enhance the interpretability, accuracy and reliability of predictive models in geotechnical applications. We review recent applications of PIML in soil mechanics, hydrology, geotechnical site investigation, slope stability analysis and foundation engineering, showcasing successes and challenges. Furthermore, we identify promising avenues for future research in geotechnical engineering, including the integration of domain knowledge, model explainability, multiphysics and multiscale problems, complex constitutive models, as well as digital twins and large AI models within PIML frameworks. As geotechnical engineering embraces the paradigm shift towards data-driven methodologies, this direction paper offers valuable insights for researchers and practitioners, guiding the trajectory of PIML for sustainable and resilient infrastructure development.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it