Hasan Cetinkaya

Hasan Cetinkaya


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

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15 December 2025 in Mathematics
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HCHasan Cetinkaya
Hasan Cetinkaya
FAFahrettin Ay
Fahrettin Ay
MTMehmet Tunçel
Mehmet Tunçel
HNHazem Nounou
Hazem Nounou
MNMohamed Nounou
Mohamed Nounou
ESErchin Serpedin
Erchin Serpedin
Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) often struggle with stiff partial differential equations (PDEs) exhibiting sharp gradients and extreme nonlinearities. We propose a Curriculum-Enhanced (CE) Adaptive Sampling framework that integrates curriculum learning with adaptive refinement to improve PINN training. Our framework introduces four methods: CE-RARG (greedy sampling), CE-RARD (probabilistic sampling), and their novel difficulty-aware dynamic counterparts, CED-RARG and CED-RARD, which adjust refinement effort based on task difficulty. We test these methods on five challenging stiff PDEs: the Allen–Cahn, Burgers’ (I and II), Korteweg–de Vries (KdV), and Reaction equations. Our methods consistently outperform both Vanilla PINNs and curriculum-only baselines. In the most difficult regimes, CED-RARD achieves errors up to 100 times lower for the Burgers’ and KdV equations. For the Allen–Cahn and Reaction equations, CED-RARG proves most effective, reducing errors by over 40% compared to its non-dynamic counterpart and by over two orders of magnitude relative to Vanilla PINN. Visualizations confirm that our methods effectively allocate collocation points to high-gradient regions. By demonstrating success across a wide range of stiffness parameters, we provide a robust and reproducible framework for solving stiff PDEs, with all code and datasets publicly available.