arXiv AI

PTNO: Training Neural Operators with Noisy Monte Carlo Estimates for Particle Transport Problems

The paper introduces PTNO, a neural operator that learns particle transport surrogates directly from noisy, low‑cost Monte Carlo (MC) labels, addressing high variance and high dynamic range challenges. By training on many noisy scenes, PTNO achieves comparable accuracy to converged MC while dramatically reducing computational cost, and it employs a softplus output and a pointwise relative L2 loss to handle HDR data. Experiments on neutron transport in fusion reactors and radiative transfer in participating media show speedups of up to 10⁵× and cost reductions of up to 10⁵× compared to traditional MC.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Generative Monte Carlo Sampling for Constant-Cost Particle Transport

Generative Monte Carlo (GMC) is a new particle transport simulation method that embeds generative AI into solving the linear Boltzmann equation. By treating cell transmission as a conditional generation task, neural networks trained with conditional flow matching produce particle exit states—position, direction, and path length—without simulating scattering histories. GMC generalizes across materials using optical coordinate scaling, matches standard Monte Carlo’s statistical accuracy and convergence, and achieves constant‑cost per cell transmission, offering significant speedups in optically thick regimes.

By Joseph A. Farmer, Aidan Murray, Johannes Krotz, Ryan G. McClarren
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Amortized mean-shift interacting particles

arXiv:2606. 15871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bayesian inference for inverse problems is run to evaluate integrals -- posterior expectations, tail probabilities, and risks -- across a stream of observations.

By Ali Siahkoohi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

On the training of physics-informed neural operators for solving parametric partial differential equations

arXiv:2606. 06164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-informed neural operators (PINOs) aim to learn solution operators for partial differential equations by using the governing physics as supervision, rather than relying solely on paired input-output simulation data.

By Nanxi Chen, Chuanjie Cui, Airong Chen, Sifan Wang, Rujin Ma
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 4

On the training of physics-informed neural operators for solving parametric partial differential equations

Physics-informed neural operators (PINOs) aim to learn solution operators for partial differential equations by using the governing physics as supervision, rather than relying solely on paired input-output simulation data. By incorporating physical constraints into the training objective, PINOs combine the cross-instance generalization of neural operators with the data efficiency of physics-informed learning.

arXiv AI
Aug 20

Physics-Unrolled Neural Operator for Wireless Field Modeling

The paper introduces Physics-Unrolled Hybrid Neural Operator (PU‑HNO), a three‑stage cascade that transforms low‑fidelity ray‑tracing outputs and scene priors into high‑fidelity indoor radio maps by sequentially modeling reflection, diffraction, and scattering. It demonstrates that, under conditionally unbiased label noise, the model can learn stable propagation structures and surpass its own training labels. Experiments on varied floorplans show PU‑HNO outperforming image‑to‑image baselines, wireless learning models, and monolithic neural operators in both image quality and wireless deployment metrics.

By Rafid Umayer Murshed, Saif Ur Rahman, Mingyue Tang, Elahe Soltanaghai
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Mind the Gap: Navigating Inference with Optimal Transport Maps

The paper introduces a model calibration method using optimal transport to address discrepancies between simulation and experimental data in high-dimensional machine learning applications. Applied to jet tagging in particle physics, the technique calibrates a 128‑dimensional latent representation from a general‑purpose classifier, ensuring downstream derived quantities are properly calibrated. This enables more reliable use of foundation models for jet flavor analysis in LHC experiments and offers a general framework for correcting high‑dimensional simulations across scientific fields.

By Malte Algren, Tobias Golling, Francesco Armando Di Bello, Christopher Pollard
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

Disentangling Attention in Deep Operator Learning: A Controlled Study of Data-Driven and Physics-Informed Architectures

The paper investigates how different attention mechanisms affect the performance of DeepONet neural operators. Five variants—varying in cross‑attention, self‑attention, tokenization, and attention depth—are trained in both data‑driven and physics‑informed settings on one‑ and two‑dimensional PDE benchmarks. Results show that per‑sensor tokenization with cross‑attention consistently reduces error, while branch self‑attention helps only in complex spatial problems, and deeper cross‑attention yields diminishing returns with higher cost.

By Amar Alem Koric, Qibang Liu, Seid Koric
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Amortizing Physics-Informed Neural Solvers via Graph Hypernetworks

The paper introduces a method to amortize physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) across related partial differential equations (PDEs) by explicitly modeling equation relationships in an operator graph. Coefficient vectors encode numerical parameters, while the graph hypernetwork generates diagonal codes that initialize a meta‑trained factorized PINN for each target equation. Experiments on scalar convection‑diffusion‑reaction, two‑field Fisher‑KPP, and a capacitively coupled plasma model show that term‑based descriptors and graph conditioning improve solution accuracy compared to coefficient‑vector conditioning, especially for high‑reaction and coupled systems.

By Cheng Jing, Abhishek Verma, Kallol Bera, Yixuan He, Kookjin Lee