GITO: Graph-Informed Transformer Operator for Learning Complex Partial Differential Equations

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Main Authors: Ramezankhani, Milad, Patel, Janak M., Deodhar, Anirudh, Birru, Dagnachew
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author Ramezankhani, Milad
Patel, Janak M.
Deodhar, Anirudh
Birru, Dagnachew
author_facet Ramezankhani, Milad
Patel, Janak M.
Deodhar, Anirudh
Birru, Dagnachew
contents We present a novel graph-informed transformer operator (GITO) architecture for learning complex partial differential equation systems defined on irregular geometries and non-uniform meshes. GITO consists of two main modules: a hybrid graph transformer (HGT) and a transformer neural operator (TNO). HGT leverages a graph neural network (GNN) to encode local spatial relationships and a transformer to capture long-range dependencies. A self-attention fusion layer integrates the outputs of the GNN and transformer to enable more expressive feature learning on graph-structured data. TNO module employs linear-complexity cross-attention and self-attention layers to map encoded input functions to predictions at arbitrary query locations, ensuring discretization invariance and enabling zero-shot super-resolution across any mesh. Empirical results on benchmark PDE tasks demonstrate that GITO outperforms existing transformer-based neural operators, paving the way for efficient, mesh-agnostic surrogate solvers in engineering applications.
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spellingShingle GITO: Graph-Informed Transformer Operator for Learning Complex Partial Differential Equations
Ramezankhani, Milad
Patel, Janak M.
Deodhar, Anirudh
Birru, Dagnachew
Machine Learning
We present a novel graph-informed transformer operator (GITO) architecture for learning complex partial differential equation systems defined on irregular geometries and non-uniform meshes. GITO consists of two main modules: a hybrid graph transformer (HGT) and a transformer neural operator (TNO). HGT leverages a graph neural network (GNN) to encode local spatial relationships and a transformer to capture long-range dependencies. A self-attention fusion layer integrates the outputs of the GNN and transformer to enable more expressive feature learning on graph-structured data. TNO module employs linear-complexity cross-attention and self-attention layers to map encoded input functions to predictions at arbitrary query locations, ensuring discretization invariance and enabling zero-shot super-resolution across any mesh. Empirical results on benchmark PDE tasks demonstrate that GITO outperforms existing transformer-based neural operators, paving the way for efficient, mesh-agnostic surrogate solvers in engineering applications.
title GITO: Graph-Informed Transformer Operator for Learning Complex Partial Differential Equations
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13906