Neural Operator
A class of neural network architectures designed to learn mappings between function spaces, enabling efficient solution of partial differential equations. Inference speed is substantially faster than traditional numerical methods, and the approach is widely applied across scientific machine learning domains.
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Neural operators are a class of deep learning models that learn mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, aiming to approximate the solution operator of PDEs, are resolution-independent, and representative architectures include FNO and DeepONet.
Neural operators typically use raw coordinate-value pairs (x, u(x)) as input representation, requiring implicit learning of differentiation operations, which increases the learning burden.
After providing derivative features, the approximation bound of the neural operator improves from O(W^{-(s-m)/d}) to O(W^{-s/d}).
The study proposes ∂-NO (del-NO), an architecture-agnostic plug-and-play derivative-enhanced neural operator that can provide learnable fractional-order derivative features for any neural operator backbone.
When neural operators are deployed autoregressively, prediction errors are distributed extremely unevenly in space and time, while the number of local corrections available is very limited.
Traditional CFD computation can take hours or even days, whereas inference with neural operators often takes only milliseconds.
Methods such as neural operators, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), and Fourier neural operators (FNOs) have made significant progress in PDE solving.
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Neural operators are a class of deep learning models that learn mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, aiming to approximate the solution operator of PDEs, are resolution-independent, and representative architectures include FNO and DeepONet.
50%UnverifiedNeural operators typically use raw coordinate-value pairs (x, u(x)) as input representation, requiring implicit learning of differentiation operations, which increases the learning burden.
50%UnverifiedAfter providing derivative features, the approximation bound of the neural operator improves from O(W^{-(s-m)/d}) to O(W^{-s/d}).
50%UnverifiedWhen neural operators are deployed autoregressively, prediction errors are distributed extremely unevenly in space and time, while the number of local corrections available is very limited.
50%UnverifiedMethods such as neural operators, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), and Fourier neural operators (FNOs) have made significant progress in PDE solving.
50%UnverifiedTraditional CFD computation can take hours or even days, whereas inference with neural operators often takes only milliseconds.
50%UnverifiedThe study proposes ∂-NO (del-NO), an architecture-agnostic plug-and-play derivative-enhanced neural operator that can provide learnable fractional-order derivative features for any neural operator backbone.
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