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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…

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Pretraining methods gain increasing attraction recently for solving PDEs with neural operators. It alleviates the data scarcity problem encountered by neural operator learning when solving single PDE via training on large-scale datasets…

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The generalization of neural networks is a central challenge in machine learning, especially concerning the performance under distributions that differ from training ones. Current methods, mainly based on the data-driven paradigm such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Yige Yuan , Bingbing Xu , Bo Lin , Liang Hou , Fei Sun , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Mixed-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) are characterized by coupled operators defined on domains of varying dimensions and pose significant computational challenges due to their inherent ill-conditioning. Moreover, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Nunzio Dimola , Nicola Rares Franco , Paolo Zunino

Developing neural operators that accurately predict the behavior of systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) across unseen parameter regimes is crucial for robust generalization in scientific and engineering applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Eva van Tegelen , Taniya Kapoor , George A. K. van Voorn , Peter van Heijster , Ioannis N. Athanasiadis

Transfer learning for partial differential equations (PDEs) is to develop a pre-trained neural network that can be used to solve a wide class of PDEs. Existing transfer learning approaches require much information of the target PDEs such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Zezhong Zhang , Feng Bao , Lili Ju , Guannan Zhang

Operator learning has emerged as a powerful tool in scientific computing for approximating mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces. A primary application of operator learning is the development of surrogate models for the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-07 Unique Subedi , Ambuj Tewari

We propose a novel fine-tuning method to achieve multi-operator learning through training a distributed neural operator with diverse function data and then zero-shot fine-tuning the neural network using physics-informed losses for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Zecheng Zhang , Christian Moya , Lu Lu , Guang Lin , Hayden Schaeffer

Existing neural operator architectures face challenges when solving multiphysics problems with coupled partial differential equations (PDEs) due to complex geometries, interactions between physical variables, and the limited amounts of…

Neural operators have emerged as an efficient paradigm for solving PDEs, overcoming the limitations of traditional numerical methods and significantly improving computational efficiency. However, due to the diversity and complexity of PDE…

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Inverse problems in partial differential equations (PDEs) involve estimating the physical parameters of a system from observed spatiotemporal solution fields. Neural networks are well-suited for PDE parameter estimation due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Divyam Goel , Nithin Chalapathi , Sanjeev Raja , Aditi S. Krishnapriyan

Pre-trained machine learning (ML) models have shown great performance for a wide range of applications, in particular in natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). Here, we study how pre-training could be used for…

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We propose a neural network-based meta-learning method to efficiently solve partial differential equation (PDE) problems. The proposed method is designed to meta-learn how to solve a wide variety of PDE problems, and uses the knowledge for…

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Partial differential equations (PDEs) govern nearly every physical process in science and engineering, yet solving them at scale remains prohibitively expensive. Generative AI has transformed language, vision, and protein science, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yilong Dai , Shengyu Chen , Xiaowei Jia , Runlong Yu

We present a lightweighted neural PDE representation to discover the hidden structure and predict the solution of different nonlinear PDEs. Our key idea is to leverage the prior of ``translational similarity'' of numerical PDE differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Ziqian Wu , Xingzhe He , Yijun Li , Cheng Yang , Rui Liu , Shiying Xiong , Bo Zhu

This focused review explores a range of neural operator architectures for approximating solutions to parametric partial differential equations (PDEs), emphasizing high-level concepts and practical implementation strategies. The study covers…

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Neural network-based methods have emerged as powerful tools for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in scientific and engineering applications, particularly when handling complex domains or incorporating empirical data. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Chuqi Chen , Qixuan Zhou , Yahong Yang , Yang Xiang , Tao Luo

We present a new scientific machine learning method that learns from data a computationally inexpensive surrogate model for predicting the evolution of a system governed by a time-dependent nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE), an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Elizabeth Qian , Ionut-Gabriel Farcas , Karen Willcox

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) offer a promising avenue for tackling both forward and inverse problems in partial differential equations (PDEs) by incorporating deep learning with fundamental physics principles. Despite their…

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Solving parametric Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) for a broad range of parameters is a critical challenge in scientific computing. To this end, neural operators, which \textcolor{black}{predicts the PDE solution with variable PDE…

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