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Recently deep learning surrogates and neural operators have shown promise in solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, they often require a large amount of training data and are limited to bounded domains. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Zhiwei Fang , Sifan Wang , Paris Perdikaris

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

Physics-informed deep learning often faces optimization challenges due to the complexity of solving partial differential equations (PDEs), which involve exploring large solution spaces, require numerous iterations, and can lead to unstable…

The classical development of neural networks has primarily focused on learning mappings between finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces. Recently, this has been generalized to neural operators that learn mappings between function spaces. For…

Fractional-order differential equations (FDEs) enhance traditional differential equations by extending the order of differential operators from integers to real numbers, offering greater flexibility in modeling complex dynamical systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Qiyu Kang , Xuhao Li , Kai Zhao , Wenjun Cui , Yanan Zhao , Weihua Deng , Wee Peng Tay

Minimizing PDE-residual losses is a common strategy to promote physical consistency in neural operators. However, standard formulations often lack variational correctness, meaning that small residuals do not guarantee small solution errors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Yuan Qiu , Wolfgang Dahmen , Peng Chen

Neural solvers for partial differential equations (PDEs) have great potential to generate fast and accurate physics solutions, yet their practicality is currently limited by their generalizability. PDEs evolve over broad scales and exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Anthony Zhou , Amir Barati Farimani

This study investigates the application of machine learning, specifically Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), to learn time-advancement operators for parametric partial differential equations (PDEs). Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Rixin Yu , Erdzan Hodzic

Recently, researchers have utilized neural networks to accurately solve partial differential equations (PDEs), enabling the mesh-free method for scientific computation. Unfortunately, the network performance drops when encountering a high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Pongpisit Thanasutives , Masayuki Numao , Ken-ichi Fukui

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

Neural operator learning directly constructs the mapping relationship from the equation parameter space to the solution space, enabling efficient direct inference in practical applications without the need for repeated solution of partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Heng Wu , Junjie Wang , Benzhuo Lu

Multiscale problems are ubiquitous in physics. Numerical simulations of such problems by solving partial differential equations (PDEs) at high resolution are computationally too expensive for many-query scenarios, such as uncertainty…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Hamidreza Eivazi , Jendrik-Alexander Tröger , Stefan Wittek , Stefan Hartmann , Andreas Rausch

The computational overhead of traditional numerical solvers for partial differential equations (PDEs) remains a critical bottleneck for large-scale parametric studies and design optimization. We introduce a Minimal-Data Parametric Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Qiyun Cheng , Md Hossain Sahadath , Huihua Yang , Shaowu Pan , Wei Ji

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) is a required step in the simulation of natural and engineering systems. The associated computational costs significantly increase when exploring various scenarios, such as changes in initial or…

Single-operator learning involves training a deep neural network to learn a specific operator, whereas recent work in multi-operator learning uses an operator embedding structure to train a single neural network on data from multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Jingmin Sun , Zecheng Zhang , Hayden Schaeffer

Due to the curse of dimensionality, solving high dimensional parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) has been a challenging problem for decades. Recently, a weak adversarial network (WAN) proposed in (Y.Zang et al., 2020) offered a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Paul Valsecchi Oliva , Yue Wu , Cuiyu He , Hao Ni

Operator learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for developing efficient surrogate models to solve partial differential equations (PDEs). However, existing approaches often overlook the domain knowledge inherent in the underlying PDEs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ziqian Li , Kang Liu , Yongcun Song , Hangrui Yue , Enrique Zuazua

A key aspect of learned partial differential equation (PDE) solvers is that the main cost often comes from generating training data with classical solvers rather than learning the model itself. Another is that there are clear axes of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Naman Choudhary , Vedant Singh , Ameet Talwalkar , Nicholas Matthew Boffi , Mikhail Khodak , Tanya Marwah

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are central to scientific modeling. Modern workflows increasingly rely on learning-based components to support model reuse, inference, and integration across large computational processes. Despite the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Yilong Dai , Shengyu Chen , Ziyi Wang , Xiaowei Jia , Yiqun Xie , Vipin Kumar , Runlong Yu

Neural networks have emerged as promising tools for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), particularly through the application of neural operators. Training neural operators typically requires a large amount of training data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Chaoyu Liu , Chris Budd , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb