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While many problems in machine learning focus on learning mappings between finite-dimensional spaces, scientific applications require approximating mappings between function spaces, i.e., operators. We study the problem of learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Adrien Weihs , Jingmin Sun , Zecheng Zhang , Hayden Schaeffer

The Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) framework introduced recently incorporates physics into deep learning, and offers a promising avenue for the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) as well as identification of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Ehsan Haghighat , Ali Can Bekar , Erdogan Madenci , Ruben Juanes

By learning the mappings between infinite function spaces using carefully designed neural networks, the operator learning methodology has exhibited significantly more efficiency than traditional methods in solving complex problems such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Ziyuan Liu , Haifeng Wang , Hong Zhang , Kaijuna Bao , Xu Qian , Songhe Song

Although neural operators are widely used in data-driven physical simulations, their training remains computationally expensive. Recent advances address this issue via downstream learning, where a model pretrained on simpler problems is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Mikhail Masliaev , Dmitry Gusarov , Ilya Markov , Alexander Hvatov

This study presents a novel unsupervised convolutional Neural Network (NN) architecture with nonlocal interactions for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). The nonlocal Peridynamic Differential Operator (PDDO) is employed as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 A. Mavi , A. C. Bekar , E. Haghighat , E. Madenci

Uncertainty and delayed reactions in human driving behavior lead to stop-and-go traffic congestion on freeways. The freeway traffic dynamics are governed by the Aw-Rascle-Zhang (ARZ) traffic Partial Differential Equation (PDE) models with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Kaijing Lv , Junmin Wang , Yihuai Zhang , Huan Yu

In this work, we introduce a planning neural operator (PNO) for predicting the value function of a motion planning problem. We recast value function approximation as learning a single operator from the cost function space to the value…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Sharath Matada , Luke Bhan , Yuanyuan Shi , Nikolay Atanasov

We introduce MENO (''Matrix Exponential-based Neural Operator''), a hybrid surrogate modeling framework for efficiently solving stiff systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) that exhibit a sparse nonlinear structure. In such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Ivan Zanardi , Simone Venturi , Marco Panesi

Attention mechanisms, which enable a neural network to accurately focus on all the relevant elements of the input, have become an essential component to improve the performance of deep neural networks. There are mainly two attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Qing-Long Zhang Yu-Bin Yang

Fourier neural operators (FNOs) can learn highly nonlinear mappings between function spaces, and have recently become a popular tool for learning responses of complex physical systems. However, to achieve good accuracy and efficiency, FNOs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Ning Liu , Siavash Jafarzadeh , Yue Yu

Attention mechanisms, especially self-attention, have played an increasingly important role in deep feature representation for visual tasks. Self-attention updates the feature at each position by computing a weighted sum of features using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Meng-Hao Guo , Zheng-Ning Liu , Tai-Jiang Mu , Shi-Min Hu

Automatic neural architecture design has shown its potential in discovering powerful neural network architectures. Existing methods, no matter based on reinforcement learning or evolutionary algorithms (EA), conduct architecture search in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Renqian Luo , Fei Tian , Tao Qin , Enhong Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Constitutive modeling based on continuum mechanics theory has been a classical approach for modeling the mechanical responses of materials. However, when constitutive laws are unknown or when defects and/or high degrees of heterogeneity are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Huaiqian You , Quinn Zhang , Colton J. Ross , Chung-Hao Lee , Yue Yu

We introduce a novel Multimodal Neural Operator (MNO) architecture designed to learn solution operators for multi-parameter nonlinear boundary value problems (BVPs). Traditional neural operators primarily map either the PDE coefficients or…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Vamshi C. Madala , Nithin Govindarajan , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran

A major challenge for Multi-Agent Systems is enabling agents to adapt dynamically to diverse environments in which opponents and teammates may continually change. Agents trained using conventional methods tend to excel only within the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Qian Long , Ruoyan Li , Minglu Zhao , Tao Gao , Demetri Terzopoulos

Traditionally, neural networks have been employed to learn the mapping between finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces. However, recent research has opened up new horizons, focusing on the utilization of deep neural networks to learn operators…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Somdatta Goswami , Dimitris G. Giovanis , Bowei Li , Seymour M. J. Spence , Michael D. Shields

We propose neural network operator inference (NN-OpInf): a structure-preserving, composable, and minimally restrictive operator inference framework for the non-intrusive reduced-order modeling of dynamical systems. The approach learns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Eric Parish , Anthony Gruber , Patrick Blonigan , Irina Tezaur

Neural operators have shown great potential in solving a family of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) by modeling the mappings between input and output functions. Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) implements global convolutions via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chenhong Zhou , Jie Chen , Zaifeng Yang

In scientific and engineering applications, solving partial differential equations (PDEs) across various parameters and domains normally relies on resource-intensive numerical methods. Neural operators based on deep learning offered a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Zhiwei Zhao , Changqing Liu , Yingguang Li , Zhibin Chen , Xu Liu

Linear layers in neural networks (NNs) trained by gradient descent can be expressed as a key-value memory system which stores all training datapoints and the initial weights, and produces outputs using unnormalised dot attention over the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Kazuki Irie , Róbert Csordás , Jürgen Schmidhuber