TANTE: Time-Adaptive Operator Learning via Neural Taylor Expansion

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Hauptverfasser: Wu, Zhikai, Wang, Sifan, Zhang, Shiyang, He, Sizhuang, Zhu, Min, Jiao, Anran, Lu, Lu, van Dijk, David
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author Wu, Zhikai
Wang, Sifan
Zhang, Shiyang
He, Sizhuang
Zhu, Min
Jiao, Anran
Lu, Lu
van Dijk, David
author_facet Wu, Zhikai
Wang, Sifan
Zhang, Shiyang
He, Sizhuang
Zhu, Min
Jiao, Anran
Lu, Lu
van Dijk, David
contents Operator learning for time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) has seen rapid progress in recent years, enabling efficient approximation of complex spatiotemporal dynamics. However, most existing methods rely on fixed time step sizes during rollout, which limits their ability to adapt to varying temporal complexity and often leads to error accumulation. Here, we propose the Time-Adaptive Transformer with Neural Taylor Expansion (TANTE), a novel operator-learning framework that produces continuous-time predictions with adaptive step sizes. TANTE predicts future states by performing a Taylor expansion at the current state, where neural networks learn both the higher-order temporal derivatives and the local radius of convergence. This allows the model to dynamically adjust its rollout based on the local behavior of the solution, thereby reducing cumulative error and improving computational efficiency. We demonstrate the effectiveness of TANTE across a wide range of PDE benchmarks, achieving superior accuracy and adaptability compared to fixed-step baselines, delivering accuracy gains of 60-80 % and speed-ups of 30-40 % at inference time. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/zwu88/TANTE for transparency and reproducibility.
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spellingShingle TANTE: Time-Adaptive Operator Learning via Neural Taylor Expansion
Wu, Zhikai
Wang, Sifan
Zhang, Shiyang
He, Sizhuang
Zhu, Min
Jiao, Anran
Lu, Lu
van Dijk, David
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Operator learning for time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) has seen rapid progress in recent years, enabling efficient approximation of complex spatiotemporal dynamics. However, most existing methods rely on fixed time step sizes during rollout, which limits their ability to adapt to varying temporal complexity and often leads to error accumulation. Here, we propose the Time-Adaptive Transformer with Neural Taylor Expansion (TANTE), a novel operator-learning framework that produces continuous-time predictions with adaptive step sizes. TANTE predicts future states by performing a Taylor expansion at the current state, where neural networks learn both the higher-order temporal derivatives and the local radius of convergence. This allows the model to dynamically adjust its rollout based on the local behavior of the solution, thereby reducing cumulative error and improving computational efficiency. We demonstrate the effectiveness of TANTE across a wide range of PDE benchmarks, achieving superior accuracy and adaptability compared to fixed-step baselines, delivering accuracy gains of 60-80 % and speed-ups of 30-40 % at inference time. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/zwu88/TANTE for transparency and reproducibility.
title TANTE: Time-Adaptive Operator Learning via Neural Taylor Expansion
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08574