arXiv Statistics ML

Fractional Laplace Neural Operators: Exact Architectures, an Expressivity Frontier at Criticality, and Certified Stability for Memory-Driven Network Dynamics

The paper introduces the fractional Laplace neural operator (fLNO), a neural operator that embeds Volterra resolvent structures with non‑rational Laplace symbols into learned maps. It demonstrates that a single graph‑spectral layer can exactly represent the full linear Volterra solution for commuting excitation–Laplacian pairs, and establishes limits on the expressivity of finite rational realizations, showing they cannot capture non‑integer critical asymptotics. The authors also provide trainable parametrizations that enforce stability margins, a graphon‑transfer theorem, and empirical results on benchmark data, Chilean aftershock sequences, and renewal models, highlighting the fLNO’s ability to recover branching coordinates with few parameters while maintaining stability.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 14

Structure-preserving uncertainty quantification for GENERIC dynamics

arXiv:2608. 12624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structure-preserving machine learning embeds physical structure directly into model architectures, yet uncertainty quantification (UQ) for such hard-constrained models remains limited because standard UQ methods may violate the encoded admissibility conditions, require architectural modifications, or impose substantial computational costs.

By Zequn He, Celia Reina
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

GENERIC-FNO: Embedding Energy Conservation and Entropy Production into Fourier Neural Operators

arXiv:2606. 08343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce GENERIC-FNO, the first neural operator to embed the full GENERIC (metriplectic) structure of nonequilibrium thermodynamics -- reversible, energy-conserving dynamics and irreversible, entropy-producing dynamics coupled through the degeneracy conditions -- directly in function space.

By Jason Sulskis, Sathya Ravi
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 3

Learning and extrapolating scale-invariant processes

The paper investigates how machine learning models can regress scale‑free processes, such as earthquakes or avalanches, focusing on predicting rare, large events that require extrapolation. It studies two self‑similar systems: a 2‑dimensional fractional Gaussian field and the Abelian sandpile model. Experiments compare existing architectures (U‑net, Riesz network) with new proposals (wavelet‑based Graph Neural Network, Fourier embedding, Fourier‑Mellin Neural Operator) to identify spectral bias and coarse‑graining challenges and suggest inductive biases to address them.

By Anaclara Alvez-Canepa, Cyril Furtlehner, Fran\c{c}ois P. Landes
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Graph Transfer Learning via Shared Latent Geometry: Theory and Applications

arXiv:2606. 00716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference and control in engineered physical systems pay a heavy physics cost at deployment: state estimators, inverse-problem solvers, model-predictive controllers, schedulers, and observers are often not closed-form and must re-solve a numerical optimization per instance, with the operator re-supplied each time.

By Tong Wu, Andrew Campbell, Anna Scaglione