Need help getting started with NeuralPDE.jl

I am an absolute beginner to Julia trying to get started with the first NeuralPDE.jl tutorial at: https://neuralpde.sciml.ai/dev/examples/ode/

I am using Julia 1.5.2 and understand that I need to install some packages before I can get started with the tutorial. But I am not clear as to what exactly as I don’t see specific documentation about that. [1]

What I have tried so far is to get into pkg mode and run the following:

add DifferentialEquations
add Flux
add Optim
add NeuralPDE

But when I then try to follow the run the tutorial’s first lines, I stumble into the following:

julia> using NeuralPDE
[ Info: Precompiling NeuralPDE [315f7962-48a3-4962-8226-d0f33b1235f0]
WARNING: could not import DiffEqBase.OptimizationFunction into GalacticOptim
WARNING: could not import DiffEqBase.AbstractADType into GalacticOptim
ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: UndefVarError: AbstractADType not defined
Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope at /Users/harish/.julia/packages/GalacticOptim/TzUrT/src/function.jl:1
 [2] include(::Function, ::Module, ::String) at ./Base.jl:380
 [3] include at ./Base.jl:368 [inlined]
 [4] include(::String) at /Users/harish/.julia/packages/GalacticOptim/TzUrT/src/GalacticOptim.jl:1
 [5] top-level scope at /Users/harish/.julia/packages/GalacticOptim/TzUrT/src/GalacticOptim.jl:15
 [6] include(::Function, ::Module, ::String) at ./Base.jl:380
 [7] include(::Module, ::String) at ./Base.jl:368
 [8] top-level scope at none:2
 [9] eval at ./boot.jl:331 [inlined]
 [10] eval(::Expr) at ./client.jl:467
 [11] top-level scope at ./none:3
in expression starting at /Users/harish/.julia/packages/GalacticOptim/TzUrT/src/function.jl:1
in expression starting at /Users/harish/.julia/packages/GalacticOptim/TzUrT/src/GalacticOptim.jl:15
ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile GalacticOptim [a75be94c-b780-496d-a8a9-0878b188d577] to /Users/harish/.julia/compiled/v1.5/GalacticOptim/fP6Iz_l9FIb.ji.
Stacktrace:
 [1] error(::String) at ./error.jl:33
 [2] compilecache(::Base.PkgId, ::String) at ./loading.jl:1305
 [3] _require(::Base.PkgId) at ./loading.jl:1030
 [4] require(::Base.PkgId) at ./loading.jl:928
 [5] require(::Module, ::Symbol) at ./loading.jl:923
 [6] include(::Function, ::Module, ::String) at ./Base.jl:380
 [7] include(::Module, ::String) at ./Base.jl:368
 [8] top-level scope at none:2
 [9] eval at ./boot.jl:331 [inlined]
 [10] eval(::Expr) at ./client.jl:467
 [11] top-level scope at ./none:3
in expression starting at /Users/harish/.julia/packages/NeuralPDE/7SDF6/src/NeuralPDE.jl:9
ERROR: Failed to precompile NeuralPDE [315f7962-48a3-4962-8226-d0f33b1235f0] to /Users/harish/.julia/compiled/v1.5/NeuralPDE/uYXxU_l9FIb.ji.
Stacktrace:
 [1] error(::String) at ./error.jl:33
 [2] compilecache(::Base.PkgId, ::String) at ./loading.jl:1305
 [3] _require(::Base.PkgId) at ./loading.jl:1030
 [4] require(::Base.PkgId) at ./loading.jl:928
 [5] require(::Module, ::Symbol) at ./loading.jl:923

Could someone point me to what I should be trying to do to correct this? I imagine I should be uninstalling/reinstalling different variants of these requirements, or maybe an additional package DiffEqBase(?), but I am not sure.

[1] I will independently write on GitHub and see if the authors are interested in additions to the documentation that help beginners like me.

Are you using the standard Julia v1.5 binary? Is your registry blocking ModelingToolkit v4?

Thank you for getting back to me.

I doubt my Julia is standard. It was installed via MacPorts. But looking at the installation instructions for it, there doesn’t seem to be any strange patching going on.

I don’t understand your second question enough to answer it. (I don’t know what a registry is and how my particular Julia could maintain its own one.) But I share below my status in pkg mode, if that is of any help:

(@v1.5) pkg> status
Status `~/.julia/environments/v1.5/Project.toml`
  [2b5f629d] DiffEqBase v6.44.3
  [0c46a032] DifferentialEquations v6.15.0
  [587475ba] Flux v0.11.2
  [315f7962] NeuralPDE v2.5.0
  [429524aa] Optim v1.2.0
  [91a5bcdd] Plots v1.6.8
  [c3e4b0f8] Pluto v0.11.14

Should I perhaps be installing ModellingToolkit too?

Try running ] status -m to see the full list of dependencies.

This is what the full list is:

(@v1.5) pkg> status -m
Status `~/.julia/environments/v1.5/Manifest.toml`
  [c3fe647b] AbstractAlgebra v0.11.1
  [621f4979] AbstractFFTs v0.5.0
  [1520ce14] AbstractTrees v0.3.3
  [79e6a3ab] Adapt v2.3.0
  [ec485272] ArnoldiMethod v0.0.4
  [4fba245c] ArrayInterface v2.13.7
  [4c555306] ArrayLayouts v0.3.8
  [56f22d72] Artifacts v1.3.0
  [ab4f0b2a] BFloat16s v0.1.0
  [aae01518] BandedMatrices v0.15.15
  [a134a8b2] BlackBoxOptim v0.5.0
  [764a87c0] BoundaryValueDiffEq v2.5.0
  [6e34b625] Bzip2_jll v1.0.6+5
  [fa961155] CEnum v0.4.1
  [a9c8d775] CPUTime v1.0.0
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  [082447d4] ChainRules v0.7.33
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  [459566f4] DiffEqCallbacks v2.13.5
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  [77ba4419] NaNMath v0.3.5
  [71a1bf82] NameResolution v0.1.5
  [315f7962] NeuralPDE v2.5.0
  [6fe1bfb0] OffsetArrays v1.4.0
  [e7412a2a] Ogg_jll v1.3.4+2
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  [429524aa] Optim v1.2.0
  [91d4177d] Opus_jll v1.3.1+3
  [bac558e1] OrderedCollections v1.3.2
  [1dea7af3] OrdinaryDiffEq v5.42.3
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As you can see ModelingToolkit is at version v3.20.1, and from @ChrisRackauckas reply you need at least v4.x.z

Thank you. I didn’t explicitly pick this version (or any version of any package). I’ll figure out how to upgrade it and report back.

I was also being blind and didn’t see it on the list that I pasted. :sweat_smile:

As with other package management systems, do I not need to be concerned about other packages (presumably the one that installed this older version) need this earlier0 version?

If you force ]add ModelingToolkit@4 what does it tell you?

We did a bunch of downstream PRs to upgrade the other libraries, so it should be okay.

I don’t know the flag to force add[1] to actually apply the following but just an add fails with the following:

(@v1.5) pkg> add ModelingToolkit@4
  Resolving package versions...
ERROR: Unsatisfiable requirements detected for package ModelingToolkit [961ee093]:
 ModelingToolkit [961ee093] log:
 ├─possible versions are: [0.0.1-0.0.2, 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.4.0, 0.5.0, 0.6.0-0.6.1, 0.6.3-0.6.4, 0.7.0-0.7.2, 0.8.0, 0.9.0-0.9.1, 0.10.0, 1.0.0-1.0.3, 1.1.0-1.1.3, 1.2.0-1.2.10, 1.3.0-1.3.3, 1.4.0-1.4.3, 2.0.0, 3.0.0-3.0.2, 3.1.0-3.1.1, 3.2.0, 3.3.0, 3.4.0, 3.5.0, 3.6.0-3.6.4, 3.7.0-3.7.1, 3.8.0, 3.9.0, 3.10.0-3.10.2, 3.11.0-3.11.1, 3.12.0-3.12.2, 3.13.0, 3.14.0-3.14.2, 3.15.0, 3.16.0, 3.17.0, 3.18.0, 3.19.0, 3.20.0-3.20.1, 3.21.0, 4.0.0-4.0.6] or uninstalled
 ├─restricted to versions 4 by an explicit requirement, leaving only versions 4.0.0-4.0.6
 └─restricted by compatibility requirements with NeuralPDE [315f7962] to versions: [3.11.0-3.11.1, 3.12.0-3.12.2, 3.13.0, 3.14.0-3.14.2, 3.15.0, 3.16.0, 3.17.0, 3.18.0, 3.19.0, 3.20.0-3.20.1, 3.21.0] — no versions left
   └─NeuralPDE [315f7962] log:
     ├─possible versions are: [2.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.2.0, 2.3.0, 2.4.0-2.4.1, 2.5.0] or uninstalled
     └─restricted to versions * by an explicit requirement, leaving only versions [2.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.2.0, 2.3.0, 2.4.0-2.4.1, 2.5.0]

[1] I tried -f, --force, --force=true

The issue seems to be that I had missed a tag and a lower bound. Thanks for helping us find that. I just setup a new release of NeuralPDE that will fix this.

Thank you for fixing this.

On a related note, I might as well ask it here. The documentation for NeuralPDE implicitly assumes one knows about installing packages, and that NeuralPDE and the relevant requirements for the tutorial examples are installed.

I understand that this might be the norm for Julia packages as it should be obvious to an experienced user, but would you appreciate patches to the documentation that clarifies this for novices?

Yes, any improvements would be appreciated.

I ran into a similar issue trying to run NeuralPDE. Is there a minimum julia version for ModelingToolkit to get version 4.x.y? I am currently using 1.4.1 and am wondering if I need to upgrade to a newer release, although I would prefer to stick with an LTS if possible.

Thank you for your help.

Julia v1.5 is required for the latest versions of the symbolic libraries. I’d just recommend v1.6 nowadays though. v1.6 is really really good.

Thank you Chris. I upgraded to Julia 1.6.0 and the examples are working now.

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