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Neural operators have emerged as a powerful tool for learning mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces. However, their approximation properties in Sobolev norms remain poorly quantified, even though these norms control both…
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Deep learning has been shown to be an effective tool in solving partial differential equations (PDEs) through physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). PINNs embed the PDE residual into the loss function of the neural network, and have been…
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