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Neural networks, especially the recent proposed neural operator models, are increasingly being used to find the solution operator of differential equations. Compared to traditional numerical solvers, they are much faster and more efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Ye Li , Yiwen Pang , Bin Shan

Neural networks can be used to learn the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on arbitrary domains without requiring a computational mesh. Common approaches integrate differential operators in training neural networks using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Shamsulhaq Basir , Inanc Senocak

Much recent work has addressed the solution of a family of partial differential equations by computing the inverse operator map between the input and solution space. Toward this end, we incorporate function-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Kaijun Bao , Xu Qian , Ziyuan Liu , Songhe Song

Operator learning techniques have recently emerged as a powerful tool for learning maps between infinite-dimensional Banach spaces. Trained under appropriate constraints, they can also be effective in learning the solution operator of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Sifan Wang , Hanwen Wang , Paris Perdikaris

We present a framework for recovering/approximating unknown time-dependent partial differential equation (PDE) using its solution data. Instead of identifying the terms in the underlying PDE, we seek to approximate the evolution operator of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Kailiang Wu , Dongbin Xiu

The modeling and control of complex physical systems are essential in real-world problems. We propose a novel framework that is generally applicable to solving PDE-constrained optimal control problems by introducing surrogate models for PDE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Rakhoon Hwang , Jae Yong Lee , Jin Young Shin , Hyung Ju Hwang

Unlike ODEs, whose models involve system matrices and whose controllers involve vector or matrix gains, PDE models involve functions in those roles functional coefficients, dependent on the spatial variables, and gain functions dependent on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Miroslav Krstic , Luke Bhan , Yuanyuan Shi

Learning probabilistic surrogates for partial differential equations remains challenging in data-scarce regimes: neural operators require large amounts of high-fidelity data, while generative approaches typically sacrifice resolution…

Computation · Statistics 2025-12-18 Sahil Bhola , Karthik Duraisamy

Neural networks have been applied to control problems, typically by combining data, differential equation residuals, and objective costs in the training loss or by incorporating auxiliary architectural components. Instead, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Oliver G. S. Lundqvist , Fabricio Oliveira

Neural operator learning accelerates PDE solution by approximating operators as mappings between continuous function spaces. Yet in many engineering settings, varying geometry induces discrete structural changes, including topological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jinshuai Bai , Haolin Li , Zahra Sharif Khodaei , M. H. Aliabadi , YuanTong Gu , Xi-Qiao Feng

Recent advances in scientific machine learning (SciML) have enabled neural operators (NOs) to serve as powerful surrogates for modeling the dynamic evolution of physical systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Siying Ma , Mehrdad M. Zadeh , Mauricio Soroco , Wuyang Chen , Jiguo Cao , Vijay Ganesh

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are commonly derived based on empirical observations. However, recent advances of technology enable us to collect and store massive amount of data, which offers new opportunities for data-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Zichao Long , Yiping Lu , Bin Dong

Operator learning is a recent development in the simulation of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) by means of neural networks. The idea behind this approach is to learn the behavior of an operator, such that the resulting neural network…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Ahmed Abdeljawad , Thomas Dittrich

Predicting outcomes and planning interactions with the physical world are long-standing goals for machine learning. A variety of such tasks involves continuous physical systems, which can be described by partial differential equations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Philipp Holl , Vladlen Koltun , Nils Thuerey

In this work, we describe a novel approach to building a neural PDE solver leveraging recent advances in transformer based neural network architectures. Our model can provide solutions for different values of PDE parameters without any need…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Varun Madhavan , Amal S Sebastian , Bharath Ramsundar , Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan

In recent years, data-driven methods have been developed to learn dynamical systems and partial differential equations (PDE). The goal of such work is discovering unknown physics and the corresponding equations. However, prior to achieving…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-17 Hao Xu , Haibin Chang , Dongxiao Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the applications of operator learning, specifically DeepONet, for solving nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Unlike conventional function learning methods that require training separate neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yahong Yang

By learning the mappings between infinite function spaces using carefully designed neural networks, the operator learning methodology has exhibited significantly more efficiency than traditional methods in solving complex problems such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Ziyuan Liu , Haifeng Wang , Hong Zhang , Kaijuna Bao , Xu Qian , Songhe Song

Learning dynamics governed by differential equations is crucial for predicting and controlling the systems in science and engineering. Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (NODE), a deep learning model integrated with differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Shiqi Gong , Qi Meng , Yue Wang , Lijun Wu , Wei Chen , Zhi-Ming Ma , Tie-Yan Liu

Solving Partial Differential Equation (PDE) interface problems on varying domains is a critical task in design and optimization, yet it remains computationally prohibitive for traditional solvers. Although operator learning has shown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Shanshan Xiao , Ye Li , Zhongyi Huang , Hao Wu