arXiv Machine Learning

Hypernetwork-Parameterized Spatially Adaptive Neural Operators for PDE Learning

The paper introduces Hypernetwork-Parameterized Spatially Adaptive Neural Operators (SANO) for learning partial differential equations (PDEs) with spatial heterogeneity. SANO replaces spatially shared parameterization with a continuous field of location-dependent operator parameters, generated by a coordinate-conditioned hypernetwork and interpolated via a Hyper-Neural Element mechanism. Experiments on 1‑, 2‑, and 3‑dimensional PDEs and perforated-domain elliptic benchmarks demonstrate that SANO consistently outperforms existing neural‑operator, hypernetwork‑based, and physics‑informed baselines.

arXiv AI
Aug 17

ArGEnT: Arbitrary Geometry-encoded Transformer for Operator Learning

arXiv:2602. 11626v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning solution operators on arbitrary geometries remains a central challenge in scientific machine learning, especially for many-query simulation, physics-informed learning, and evolving geometries requiring accurate, geometry-aware predictions at arbitrary spatial locations.

By Wenqian Chen, Zhi-Feng Wei, Yucheng Fu, Michael Penwarden, Pratanu Roy, Panos Stinis
arXiv AI
3d ago

Cluster Attention Neural Operators for Solving Parametric Partial Differential Equations

The paper introduces the Cluster Attention Neural Operator (CANO), a neural operator that uses a novel cross‑attention mechanism to dynamically cluster queries while keeping full‑resolution keys and values. This design eliminates the slice compression and weight‑sharing limitations of previous Transformer‑based operators, maintaining fast computation and global interactions. Experiments on a range of fluid and solid dynamics benchmarks—including Navier‑Stokes, Airfoil, Plasticity, Pipe Turbulence, and Composites—show that CANO achieves lower errors than existing baselines and demonstrates strong geometric adaptability and temporal consistency.

By Ming Zhong, Antonio Colanera, Gianluigi Rozza, Zhenya Yan
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

HiLNO: A Hierarchical Latent Neural Operator with Multi-Scale Supervision for PDEs on General Geometries

HiLNO is a hierarchical latent neural operator that builds a fine‑to‑coarse‑to‑fine latent space and incorporates multi‑scale supervision and anisotropic Gaussian attention to preserve spatial information in PDE solutions with multiscale structures. The hierarchy reduces information loss during compression, while multi‑scale supervision aligns intermediate predictions with downsampled targets, and anisotropic attention facilitates feature transfer across scales. Experiments on standard PDE benchmarks and a large‑scale automotive aerodynamics task show that HiLNO achieves competitive accuracy while cutting parameter count by 84.4% and FLOPs by 69.2% compared with LinearNO, and it generalizes effectively to unseen spatial resolutions.

By Zhicheng Hu, Jiacheng Li, Min Yang
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