Neural Integral Equations

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Autori principali: Zappala, Emanuele, Fonseca, Antonio Henrique de Oliveira, Caro, Josue Ortega, Moberly, Andrew Henry, Higley, Michael James, Cardin, Jessica, van Dijk, David
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author Zappala, Emanuele
Fonseca, Antonio Henrique de Oliveira
Caro, Josue Ortega
Moberly, Andrew Henry
Higley, Michael James
Cardin, Jessica
van Dijk, David
author_facet Zappala, Emanuele
Fonseca, Antonio Henrique de Oliveira
Caro, Josue Ortega
Moberly, Andrew Henry
Higley, Michael James
Cardin, Jessica
van Dijk, David
contents Nonlinear operators with long distance spatiotemporal dependencies are fundamental in modeling complex systems across sciences, yet learning these nonlocal operators remains challenging in machine learning. Integral equations (IEs), which model such nonlocal systems, have wide ranging applications in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. We introduce Neural Integral Equations (NIE), a method for learning unknown integral operators from data using an IE solver. To improve scalability and model capacity, we also present Attentional Neural Integral Equations (ANIE), which replaces the integral with self-attention. Both models are grounded in the theory of second kind integral equations, where the indeterminate appears both inside and outside the integral operator. We provide theoretical analysis showing how self-attention can approximate integral operators under mild regularity assumptions, further deepening previously reported connections between transformers and integration, and deriving corresponding approximation results for integral operators. Through numerical benchmarks on synthetic and real world data, including Lotka-Volterra, Navier-Stokes, and Burgers' equations, as well as brain dynamics and integral equations, we showcase the models' capabilities and their ability to derive interpretable dynamics embeddings. Our experiments demonstrate that ANIE outperforms existing methods, especially for longer time intervals and higher dimensional problems. Our work addresses a critical gap in machine learning for nonlocal operators and offers a powerful tool for studying unknown complex systems with long range dependencies.
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spellingShingle Neural Integral Equations
Zappala, Emanuele
Fonseca, Antonio Henrique de Oliveira
Caro, Josue Ortega
Moberly, Andrew Henry
Higley, Michael James
Cardin, Jessica
van Dijk, David
Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
Dynamical Systems
Computational Physics
Nonlinear operators with long distance spatiotemporal dependencies are fundamental in modeling complex systems across sciences, yet learning these nonlocal operators remains challenging in machine learning. Integral equations (IEs), which model such nonlocal systems, have wide ranging applications in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. We introduce Neural Integral Equations (NIE), a method for learning unknown integral operators from data using an IE solver. To improve scalability and model capacity, we also present Attentional Neural Integral Equations (ANIE), which replaces the integral with self-attention. Both models are grounded in the theory of second kind integral equations, where the indeterminate appears both inside and outside the integral operator. We provide theoretical analysis showing how self-attention can approximate integral operators under mild regularity assumptions, further deepening previously reported connections between transformers and integration, and deriving corresponding approximation results for integral operators. Through numerical benchmarks on synthetic and real world data, including Lotka-Volterra, Navier-Stokes, and Burgers' equations, as well as brain dynamics and integral equations, we showcase the models' capabilities and their ability to derive interpretable dynamics embeddings. Our experiments demonstrate that ANIE outperforms existing methods, especially for longer time intervals and higher dimensional problems. Our work addresses a critical gap in machine learning for nonlocal operators and offers a powerful tool for studying unknown complex systems with long range dependencies.
title Neural Integral Equations
topic Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
Dynamical Systems
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15190