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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…

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In this paper, we considered the problem of the simultaneous approximation of a function and its derivatives by means of the well-known neural network (NN) operators activated by sigmoidal function. Other than a uniform convergence theorem…

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We propose the *State Space Neural Operator* (SS-NO), a compact architecture for learning solution operators of time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs). Our formulation extends structured state space models (SSMs) to joint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Nodens Koren , Samuel Lanthaler

Multiple operator learning concerns learning operator families $\{G[\alpha]:U\to V\}_{\alpha\in W}$ indexed by an operator descriptor $\alpha$. Training data are collected hierarchically by sampling operator instances $\alpha$, then input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Adrien Weihs , Hayden Schaeffer

Operator learning is a data-driven approximation of mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, such as the solution operators of partial differential equations. Kernel-based operator learning can offer accurate, theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Xinyue Yu , Hayden Schaeffer

We explore the approximation capabilities of Transformer networks for H\"older and Sobolev functions, and apply these results to address nonparametric regression estimation with dependent observations. First, we establish novel upper bounds…

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Neural operators have emerged as powerful tools for learning solution operators of partial differential equations (PDEs). However, standard spectral methods based on Fourier transforms struggle with problems involving discontinuous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Giorgio M. Cavallazzi , Miguel Pérez Cuadrado , Alfredo Pinelli

Universal approximation theorems show that neural networks can approximate any continuous function; however, the number of parameters may grow exponentially with the ambient dimension, so these results do not fully explain the practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Changhoon Song , Seungchan Ko , Youngjoon Hong

The Sobolev space $H^{\varsigma}(\mathbb{R}^{d})$, where $\varsigma > d/2$, is an important function space that has many applications in various areas of research. Attributed to the inertia of a measurement instrument, it is desirable in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Youfa Li , Deguang Han , Shouzhi Yang , Ganji Huang

We develop a rigorous framework for extending neural operators to handle out-of-distribution input functions. We leverage kernel approximation techniques and provide theory for characterizing the input-output function spaces in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Blaine Quackenbush , Paul J. Atzberger

We examine the necessary and sufficient complexity of neural networks to approximate functions from different smoothness spaces under the restriction of encodable network weights. Based on an entropy argument, we start by proving lower…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-21 Ingo Gühring , Mones Raslan

We show that deep neural networks (DNNs) can efficiently learn any composition of functions with bounded $F_{1}$-norm, which allows DNNs to break the curse of dimensionality in ways that shallow networks cannot. More specifically, we derive…

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Neural Operators (NOs) provide a powerful framework for computations involving physical laws that can be modelled by (integro-) partial differential equations (PDEs), directly learning maps between infinite-dimensional function spaces that…

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In this paper, we investigate the approximation behavior of both one and multidimensional neural network type operators for functions in $L^p(I^d,\rho)$, where $1\leq p<\infty$, associated with a general measure $\rho$ defined over a…

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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…

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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zhexian Li , Ketan Savla

The study of universal approximation of arbitrary functions $f: \mathcal{X} \to \mathcal{Y}$ by neural networks has a rich and thorough history dating back to Kolmogorov (1957). In the case of learning finite dimensional maps, many authors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 William H. Guss , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Boundary conditions (BCs) are important groups of physics-enforced constraints that are necessary for solutions of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) to satisfy at specific spatial locations. These constraints carry important physical…

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Neural Operators that directly learn mappings between function spaces, such as Deep Operator Networks (DONs) and Fourier Neural Operators (FNOs), have received considerable attention. Despite the universal approximation guarantees for DONs…

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This paper establishes a comprehensive approximation result for deep fully-connected neural networks with commonly-used and general activation functions in Sobolev spaces $W^{n,\infty}$, with errors measured in the $W^{m,p}$-norm for $m <…

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