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This work introduces a neural operator based surrogate modeling framework for neutron transport computation. Two architectures, the Deep Operator Network (DeepONet) and the Fourier Neural Operator (FNO), were trained for fixed source…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Md Hossain Sahadath , Qiyun Cheng , Shaowu Pan , Wei Ji

In engineering design, surrogate models are widely employed to replace computationally expensive simulations by leveraging design variables and geometric parameters from computer-aided design (CAD) models. However, these models often lose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jangseop Park , Namwoo Kang

We present a deep-learning artificial intelligence model that is capable of learning and forecasting the late-inspiral, merger and ringdown of numerical relativity waveforms that describe quasi-circular, spinning, non-precessing binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-19 Asad Khan , E. A. Huerta , Huihuo Zheng

Nonequilibrium chemistry is central to many astrophysical environments but remains a major computational bottleneck in simulations because solving the associated stiff ODE systems is expensive. Neural surrogates promise large speedups, yet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-15 Robin Janssen , Lorenzo Branca , Tobias Buck

Clinical adoption of personalized virtual heart simulations faces challenges in model personalization and expensive computation. While an ideal solution is an efficient neural surrogate that at the same time is personalized to an individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Xiajun Jiang , Zhiyuan Li , Ryan Missel , Md Shakil Zaman , Brian Zenger , Wilson W. Good , Rob S. MacLeod , John L. Sapp , Linwei Wang

We propose GNN-Surrogate, a graph neural network-based surrogate model to explore the parameter space of ocean climate simulations. Parameter space exploration is important for domain scientists to understand the influence of input…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Neng Shi , Jiayi Xu , Skylar W. Wurster , Hanqi Guo , Jonathan Woodring , Luke P. Van Roekel , Han-Wei Shen

Discrete optimization belongs to the set of $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problems, spanning fields such as mixed-integer programming and combinatorial optimization. A current standard approach to solving convex discrete optimization problems is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Kyle Mana , Fernando Acero , Stephen Mak , Parisa Zehtabi , Michael Cashmore , Daniele Magazzeni , Manuela Veloso

Decision support systems often rely on solving complex optimization problems that may require to estimate uncertain parameters beforehand. Recent studies have shown how using traditionally trained estimators for this task can lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Gaetano Signorelli , Michele Lombardi

Surrogate model-based optimization has been increasingly used in the field of engineering design. It involves creating a surrogate model with objective functions or constraints based on the data obtained from simulations or real-world…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Minyoung Jwa , Jihoon Kim , Seungyeon Shin , Ah-hyeon Jin , Dongju Shin , Namwoo Kang

Neural networks have become very popular in surrogate modeling because of their ability to characterize arbitrary, high dimensional functions in a data driven fashion. This paper advocates for the training of surrogates that are consistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Rushil Anirudh , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Peer-Timo Bremer , Brian K. Spears

Mesh-based simulations play a key role when modeling complex physical systems that, in many disciplines across science and engineering, require the solution of parametrized time-dependent nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Nicola Rares Franco , Stefania Fresca , Filippo Tombari , Andrea Manzoni

Surrogate models provide compact relations between user-defined input parameters and output quantities of interest, enabling the efficient evaluation of complex parametric systems in many-query settings. Such capabilities are essential in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Matteo Giacomini , Pedro Díez

In this contribution, we develop an efficient surrogate modeling framework for simulation-based optimization of enhanced oil recovery, where we particularly focus on polymer flooding. The computational approach is based on an adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-04 Tim Keil , Hendrik Kleikamp , Rolf J Lorentzen , Micheal B Oguntola , Mario Ohlberger

The use of deep neural network (DNN) models as surrogates for linear and nonlinear structural dynamical systems is explored. The goal is to develop DNN based surrogates to predict structural response, i.e., displacements and accelerations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Nan Feng , Guodong Zhang , Kapil Khandelwal

Reliable plasma transport modeling for magnetic confinement fusion depends on accurately resolving the ion charge state distribution and radiative power losses of the plasma. These quantities can be obtained from solutions of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Nathan A. Garland , Romit Maulik , Qi Tang , Xian-Zhu Tang , Prasanna Balaprakash

Carefully designed activation functions can improve the performance of neural networks in many machine learning tasks. However, it is difficult for humans to construct optimal activation functions, and current activation function search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Garrett Bingham , Risto Miikkulainen

The central task in modeling complex dynamical systems is parameter estimation. This task involves numerous evaluations of a computationally expensive objective function. Surrogate-based optimization introduces a computationally efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Žiga Lukšič , Jovan Tanevski , Sašo Džeroski , Ljupčo Todorovski

In Bayesian inverse problems, surrogate models are often constructed to speed up the computational procedure, as the parameter-to-data map can be very expensive to evaluate. However, due to the curse of dimensionality and the nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Liang Yan , Tao Zhou

High-fidelity simulation models are widely used to analyze complex stochastic systems, but their high computational cost motivates the development of cheaper surrogate models that approximate the simulation model's input-output…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-28 Mohammadmahdi Ghasemloo , David J. Eckman , Yaxian Li

A surrogate model approximates the outputs of a solver of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) with a low computational cost. In this article, we propose a method to build learning-based surrogates in the context of parameterized PDEs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Alejandro Ribés , Nawfal Benchekroun , Théo Delagnes