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Machine learning (ML) models have emerged as a promising approach for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in science and engineering. Previous ML models typically cannot generalize outside the training data; for example, a trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Zongyi Li , Samuel Lanthaler , Catherine Deng , Michael Chen , Yixuan Wang , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Anima Anandkumar

Pre-training and self-training are two approaches to semi-supervised learning. The comparison between pre-training and self-training has been explored. However, the previous works led to confusing findings: self-training outperforms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Yiheng Wang , Jiayu Lin , Zuoquan Lin

Although the pre-training followed by fine-tuning paradigm is used extensively in many fields, there is still some controversy surrounding the impact of pre-training on the fine-tuning process. Currently, experimental findings based on text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Jiashu Pu , Shiwei Zhao , Ling Cheng , Yongzhu Chang , Runze Wu , Tangjie Lv , Rongsheng Zhang

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are widely used across the physical and computational sciences. Decades of research and engineering went into designing fast iterative solution methods. Existing solvers are general purpose, but may be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Jun-Ting Hsieh , Shengjia Zhao , Stephan Eismann , Lucia Mirabella , Stefano Ermon

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently emerged as a prominent paradigm for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), yet their training strategies remain underexplored. While hard prioritization methods inspired by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Zhaoqian Gao , Min Yanga

Autoregressive next-step prediction models have become the de-facto standard for building data-driven neural solvers to forecast time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs). Denoise training that is closely related to diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Zijie Li , Anthony Zhou , Amir Barati Farimani

We introduce Neural Parameter Regression (NPR), a novel framework specifically developed for learning solution operators in Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). Tailored for operator learning, this approach surpasses traditional DeepONets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Konrad Mundinger , Max Zimmer , Sebastian Pokutta

We present a data-driven control framework for partial differential equations (PDEs). Our approach integrates Time-Integrated Deep Operator Networks (TI-DeepONets) as differentiable PDE surrogate models within the Differentiable Predictive…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Dibakar Roy Sarkar , Ján Drgoňa , Somdatta Goswami

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

Partial differential equations (PDEs) govern a wide variety of dynamical processes in science and engineering, yet obtaining their numerical solutions often requires high-resolution discretizations and repeated evaluations of complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Valentin Duruisseaux , Jean Kossaifi , Anima Anandkumar

Prior-data fitted networks (PFNs) were recently proposed as a new paradigm for machine learning. Instead of training the network to an observed training set, a fixed model is pre-trained offline on small, simulated training sets from a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-19 Thomas Nagler

Segmentation of microscopy images constitutes an ill-posed inverse problem due to measurement noise, weak object boundaries, and limited labeled data. Although deep neural networks provide flexible nonparametric estimators, unconstrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Seema K. Poudel , Sunny K. Khadka

The classical development of neural networks has primarily focused on learning mappings between finite dimensional Euclidean spaces or finite sets. We propose a generalization of neural networks to learn operators, termed neural operators,…

It has been observed in practice that applying pruning-at-initialization methods to neural networks and training the sparsified networks can not only retain the testing performance of the original dense models, but also sometimes even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Hongru Yang , Yingbin Liang , Xiaojie Guo , Lingfei Wu , Zhangyang Wang

Partial differential equations often contain unknown functions that are difficult or impossible to measure directly, hampering our ability to derive predictions from the model. Workflows for recovering scalar PDE parameters from data are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Torkel E. Loman , Yurij Salmaniw , Antonio Leon Villares , Jose A. Carrillo , Ruth E. Baker

Operator learning refers to the application of ideas from machine learning to approximate (typically nonlinear) operators mapping between Banach spaces of functions. Such operators often arise from physical models expressed in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Nikola B. Kovachki , Samuel Lanthaler , Andrew M. Stuart

Neural network solvers for partial differential equations (PDEs) have made significant progress, yet they continue to face challenges related to data scarcity and model robustness. Traditional data augmentation methods, which leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Yunpeng Gong , Yongjie Hou , Zhenzhong Wang , Zexin Lin , Min Jiang

It is well known that direct training of deep neural networks will generally lead to poor results. A major progress in recent years is the invention of various pretraining methods to initialize network parameters and it was shown that such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Jun Li , Wei Luo , Jian Yang , Xiaotong Yuan

Many problems in science and engineering can be represented by a set of partial differential equations (PDEs) through mathematical modeling. Mechanism-based computation following PDEs has long been an essential paradigm for studying topics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Shudong Huang , Wentao Feng , Chenwei Tang , Jiancheng Lv

Engineering design problems often involve solving parametric Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) under variable PDE parameters and domain geometry. Recently, neural operators have shown promise in learning PDE operators and quickly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Weiheng Zhong , Hadi Meidani