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Neural operators have emerged as powerful surrogates for the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs), yet their ability to handle general, highly variable boundary conditions (BCs) remains limited. Existing approaches often fail…

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Neural operator learning models have emerged as very effective surrogates in data-driven methods for partial differential equations (PDEs) across different applications from computational science and engineering. Such operator learning…

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Chaos is a fundamental feature of many complex dynamical systems, including weather systems and fluid turbulence. These systems are inherently difficult to predict due to their extreme sensitivity to initial conditions. Many chaotic systems…

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In this paper, we introduce and study one-dimensional models for the behavior of pedestrians in a narrow street or corridor. We begin at the microscopic level by formulating a stochastic cellular automata model with explicit rules for…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-09-27 Alina Chertock , Alexander Kurganov , Anthony Polizzi , Ilya Timofeyev

Neural operators have achieved strong performance in learning solution operators of partial differential equations (PDEs), but their inherently continuous representations struggle to capture discontinuities and sharp transitions. Existing…

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Traditional approaches to stabilizing hyperbolic PDEs, such as PDE backstepping, often encounter challenges when dealing with high-dimensional or complex nonlinear problems. Their solutions require high computational and analytical costs.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Xianhe Zhang , Yu Xiao , Xiaodong Xu , Biao Luo

Neural operators have emerged as promising surrogate models for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), but struggle to generalise beyond training distributions and are often constrained to a fixed temporal discretisation. This work…

Partial differential equations (PDEs) govern nearly every physical process in science and engineering, yet solving them at scale remains prohibitively expensive. Generative AI has transformed language, vision, and protein science, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yilong Dai , Shengyu Chen , Xiaowei Jia , Runlong Yu

Unlike ODEs, whose models involve system matrices and whose controllers involve vector or matrix gains, PDE models involve functions in those roles functional coefficients, dependent on the spatial variables, and gain functions dependent on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Miroslav Krstic , Luke Bhan , Yuanyuan Shi

The uncertainty in human driving behaviors leads to stop-and-go instabilities in freeway traffic. The traffic dynamics are typically modeled by the Aw-Rascle-Zhang (ARZ) Partial Differential Equation (PDE) models, in which the relaxation…

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

Neural operators have proven to be a promising approach for modeling spatiotemporal systems in the physical sciences. However, training these models for large systems can be quite challenging as they incur significant computational and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Michael McCabe , Peter Harrington , Shashank Subramanian , Jed Brown

In recent years, machine learning has been used to create data-driven solutions to problems for which an algorithmic solution is intractable, as well as fine-tuning existing algorithms. This research applies machine learning to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Ben Stevens , Tim Colonius

The order/dimension of models derived on the basis of data is commonly restricted by the number of observations, or in the context of monitored systems, sensing nodes. This is particularly true for structural systems (e.g., civil or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Zhilu Lai , Wei Liu , Xudong Jian , Kiran Bacsa , Limin Sun , Eleni Chatzi

We consider hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) for a dynamic description of the traffic behavior in road networks. These equations are coupled to a Hawkes process that models traffic accidents taking into account their…

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Interfacial dynamics underlie a wide range of phenomena, including phase transitions, microstructure coarsening, pattern formation, and thin-film growth, and are typically described by stiff, time-dependent nonlinear partial differential…

Modeling rarefied hypersonic flows remains a fundamental challenge due to the breakdown of classical continuum assumptions in the transition-continuum regime, where the Knudsen number ranges from approximately 0.1 to 10. Conventional…

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Current physics-informed (standard or deep operator) neural networks still rely on accurately learning the initial and/or boundary conditions of the system of differential equations they are solving. In contrast, standard numerical methods…

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Modeling the dynamics of flexible objects has become an emerging topic in the community as these objects become more present in many applications, e.g., soft robotics. Due to the properties of flexible materials, the movements of soft…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Kaiyuan Tan , Peilun Li , Thomas Beckers

Deep learning has been proposed as an efficient alternative for the numerical approximation of PDE solutions, offering fast, iterative simulation of PDEs through the approximation of solution operators. However, deep learning solutions have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Sean Current , Chandan Kumar , Datta Gaitonde , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Deterministic neural operators perform well on many PDEs but can struggle with the approximation of high-frequency wave phenomena, where strong input-to-output sensitivity makes operator learning challenging, and spectral bias blurs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yicheng Zou , Samuel Lanthaler , Hossein Salahshoor