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Neural operators have emerged as powerful data-driven solvers for PDEs, offering substantial acceleration over classical numerical methods. However, existing transformer-based operators still face critical challenges when modeling PDEs on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chun-Wun Cheng , Sifan Wang , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero

Discovering hidden physical laws and identifying governing system parameters from sparse observations are central challenges in computational science and engineering. Existing data-driven methods, such as physics-informed neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Dibakar Roy Sarkar , Vijay Kag , Birupaksha Pal , Somdatta Goswami

Neural operators have emerged as a powerful tool for learning the mapping between infinite-dimensional parameter and solution spaces of partial differential equations (PDEs). In this work, we focus on multiscale PDEs that have important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xinliang Liu , Bo Xu , Shuhao Cao , Lei Zhang

Neural operators, which aim to approximate mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, have been widely applied in the simulation and prediction of physical systems. However, the limited representational capacity of network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jin Song , Kenji Kawaguchi , Zhenya Yan

Object-based attention is a key component of the visual system, relevant for perception, learning, and memory. Neurons tuned to features of attended objects tend to be more active than those associated with non-attended objects. There is a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-09 Jordan Lei , Ari S. Benjamin , Konrad P. Kording

Attention improves representation learning over RNNs, but its discrete nature limits continuous-time (CT) modeling. We introduce Neuronal Attention Circuit (NAC), a novel, biologically inspired CT-Attention mechanism that reformulates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Waleed Razzaq , Izis Kanjaraway , Yun-Bo Zhao

With massive advancements in sensor technologies and Internet-of-things, we now have access to terabytes of historical data; however, there is a lack of clarity in how to best exploit the data to predict future events. One possible…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Tapas Tripura , Souvik Chakraborty

Neural operators generalize classical neural networks to maps between infinite-dimensional spaces, e.g., function spaces. Prior works on neural operators proposed a series of novel methods to learn such maps and demonstrated unprecedented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Md Ashiqur Rahman , Zachary E. Ross , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli

This work introduces the Wavelet-Laplace Neural Operator (WLNO), a novel neural operator that fuses Haar wavelet multi-scale spatial decomposition with the Laplace-domain pole-residue formulation of the Laplace Neural Operator (LNO). While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Muhammad Abid , Arth Sojitra , Omer San

Supervised operator learning is an emerging machine learning paradigm with applications to modeling the evolution of spatio-temporal dynamical systems and approximating general black-box relationships between functional data. We propose a…

Neural operators improve conventional neural networks by expanding their capabilities of functional mappings between different function spaces to solve partial differential equations (PDEs). One of the most notable methods is the Fourier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Xuanle Zhao , Yue Sun , Tielin Zhang , Bo Xu

Neural operators have emerged as a powerful, data-driven paradigm for learning solution operators of partial differential equations (PDEs). State-of-the-art architectures, such as the Fourier Neural Operator (FNO), have achieved remarkable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Saman Pordanesh , Pejman Shahsavari , Hossein Ghadjari

A new data-driven method for operator learning of stochastic differential equations(SDE) is proposed in this paper. The central goal is to solve forward and inverse stochastic problems more effectively using limited data. Deep operator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-08 Jiahao Zhang , Shiqi Zhang , Guang Lin

Deep operator network (DeepONet) has shown significant promise as surrogate models for systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs), enabling accurate mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces. However, when applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Sharmila Karumuri , Lori Graham-Brady , Somdatta Goswami

Neural operators have emerged as a powerful data-driven paradigm for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), while their accuracy and scalability are still limited, particularly on irregular domains where fluid flows exhibit rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Qinxuan Wang , Chuang Wang , Mingyu Zhang , Jingwei Sun , Peipei Yang , Shuo Tang , Shiming Xiang

We propose a novel perspective of the attention mechanism by reinventing it as a memory architecture for neural networks, namely Neural Attention Memory (NAM). NAM is a memory structure that is both readable and writable via differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Hyoungwook Nam , Seung Byum Seo

This paper introduces the Kernel Neural Operator (KNO), a provably convergent operator-learning architecture that utilizes compositions of deep kernel-based integral operators for function-space approximation of operators (maps from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Matthew Lowery , John Turnage , Zachary Morrow , John D. Jakeman , Akil Narayan , Shandian Zhe , Varun Shankar

Classical neural networks are known for their ability to approximate mappings between finite-dimensional spaces, but they fall short in capturing complex operator dynamics across infinite-dimensional function spaces. Neural operators, in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Bo Zhang

The prevalence of employing attention mechanisms has brought along concerns on the interpretability of attention distributions. Although it provides insights about how a model is operating, utilizing attention as the explanation of model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Tristan Gomez , Suiyi Ling , Thomas Fréour , Harold Mouchère

Neural Operators (NOs) are machine learning models designed to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) by learning to map between function spaces. Neural Operators such as the Deep Operator Network (DeepONet) and the Fourier Neural…

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