“…PINNs have recently come under the spotlight for offering efficient, yet predictive, models of complex PDE systems [10] that has so far been backed by rigorous theoretical justification within the context of linear elliptic and parabolic PDEs [23]. Given the multitask nature of training for these networks and the existing challenges with modeling stiff and highly oscillatory PDEs [12,24], much of the most recent efforts has been focused on (a) adaptive gauging of the loss function [12,25,26,27,28,29,13], and (b) addressing the gradient pathologies [24,13] e.g., via learning rate annealing [30] and customizing the network architecture [11,31,32]. In this study, our initially austere implementations of PINNs using both synthetic and experimental waveforms led almost invariably to failure which further investigation attributed to the following impediments: (a) highnorm gradient fields due to large wavenumbers, (b) high-order governing PDEs in the case of laboratory experiments, and (c) imbalanced objectives in the loss function.…”