DeltaPhi: Physical States Residual Learning for Neural Operators in Data-Limited PDE Solving

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Main Authors: Yue, Xihang, Yang, Yi, Zhu, Linchao
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author Yue, Xihang
Yang, Yi
Zhu, Linchao
author_facet Yue, Xihang
Yang, Yi
Zhu, Linchao
contents The limited availability of high-quality training data poses a major obstacle in data-driven PDE solving, where expensive data collection and resolution constraints severely impact the ability of neural operator networks to learn and generalize the underlying physical system. To address this challenge, we propose DeltaPhi, a novel learning framework that transforms the PDE solving task from learning direct input-output mappings to learning the residuals between similar physical states, a fundamentally different approach to neural operator learning. This reformulation provides implicit data augmentation by exploiting the inherent stability of physical systems where closer initial states lead to closer evolution trajectories. DeltaPhi is architecture-agnostic and can be seamlessly integrated with existing neural operators to enhance their performance. Extensive experiments demonstrate consistent and significant improvements across diverse physical systems including regular and irregular domains, different neural architectures, multiple training data amount, and cross-resolution scenarios, confirming its effectiveness as a general enhancement for neural operators in data-limited PDE solving.
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spellingShingle DeltaPhi: Physical States Residual Learning for Neural Operators in Data-Limited PDE Solving
Yue, Xihang
Yang, Yi
Zhu, Linchao
Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
The limited availability of high-quality training data poses a major obstacle in data-driven PDE solving, where expensive data collection and resolution constraints severely impact the ability of neural operator networks to learn and generalize the underlying physical system. To address this challenge, we propose DeltaPhi, a novel learning framework that transforms the PDE solving task from learning direct input-output mappings to learning the residuals between similar physical states, a fundamentally different approach to neural operator learning. This reformulation provides implicit data augmentation by exploiting the inherent stability of physical systems where closer initial states lead to closer evolution trajectories. DeltaPhi is architecture-agnostic and can be seamlessly integrated with existing neural operators to enhance their performance. Extensive experiments demonstrate consistent and significant improvements across diverse physical systems including regular and irregular domains, different neural architectures, multiple training data amount, and cross-resolution scenarios, confirming its effectiveness as a general enhancement for neural operators in data-limited PDE solving.
title DeltaPhi: Physical States Residual Learning for Neural Operators in Data-Limited PDE Solving
topic Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09795