Mitigating Spectral Bias in Neural Operators via High-Frequency Scaling for Physical Systems

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Autori principali: Khodakarami, Siavash, Oommen, Vivek, Bora, Aniruddha, Karniadakis, George Em
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author Khodakarami, Siavash
Oommen, Vivek
Bora, Aniruddha
Karniadakis, George Em
author_facet Khodakarami, Siavash
Oommen, Vivek
Bora, Aniruddha
Karniadakis, George Em
contents Neural operators have emerged as powerful surrogates for modeling complex physical problems. However, they suffer from spectral bias making them oblivious to high-frequency modes, which are present in multiscale physical systems. Therefore, they tend to produce over-smoothed solutions, which is particularly problematic in modeling turbulence and for systems with intricate patterns and sharp gradients such as multi-phase flow systems. In this work, we introduce a new approach named high-frequency scaling (HFS) to mitigate spectral bias in convolutional-based neural operators. By integrating HFS with proper variants of UNet neural operators, we demonstrate a higher prediction accuracy by mitigating spectral bias in single and two-phase flow problems. Unlike Fourier-based techniques, HFS is directly applied to the latent space, thus eliminating the computational cost associated with the Fourier transform. Additionally, we investigate alternative spectral bias mitigation through diffusion models conditioned on neural operators. While the diffusion model integrated with the standard neural operator may still suffer from significant errors, these errors are substantially reduced when the diffusion model is integrated with a HFS-enhanced neural operator.
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spellingShingle Mitigating Spectral Bias in Neural Operators via High-Frequency Scaling for Physical Systems
Khodakarami, Siavash
Oommen, Vivek
Bora, Aniruddha
Karniadakis, George Em
Machine Learning
Computational Physics
Neural operators have emerged as powerful surrogates for modeling complex physical problems. However, they suffer from spectral bias making them oblivious to high-frequency modes, which are present in multiscale physical systems. Therefore, they tend to produce over-smoothed solutions, which is particularly problematic in modeling turbulence and for systems with intricate patterns and sharp gradients such as multi-phase flow systems. In this work, we introduce a new approach named high-frequency scaling (HFS) to mitigate spectral bias in convolutional-based neural operators. By integrating HFS with proper variants of UNet neural operators, we demonstrate a higher prediction accuracy by mitigating spectral bias in single and two-phase flow problems. Unlike Fourier-based techniques, HFS is directly applied to the latent space, thus eliminating the computational cost associated with the Fourier transform. Additionally, we investigate alternative spectral bias mitigation through diffusion models conditioned on neural operators. While the diffusion model integrated with the standard neural operator may still suffer from significant errors, these errors are substantially reduced when the diffusion model is integrated with a HFS-enhanced neural operator.
title Mitigating Spectral Bias in Neural Operators via High-Frequency Scaling for Physical Systems
topic Machine Learning
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13695