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20202026
most citedWhen and why PINNs fail to train: A neural tangent kernel perspective

121 citations · 150 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2026

DeepOHeat-v2: Self-Improving Operator Learning for Fast and Trustworthy Thermal Optimization in 3D-IC Design

Xinling Yu, Yixing Li, Ziyue Liu +4

Thermal-aware optimization of multi-die 3D integrated circuits evaluates many designs, each a costly heat-equation solve. Operator-learning surrogates replace this solve with a fas…

cs.LG2026

GRZO: Group-Relative Zeroth-Order Optimization for Large Language Model Fine-Tuning

Liyan Tan, Yequan Zhao, Yifan Yang +3

Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization is a memory-efficient alternative to backpropagation for fine-tuning large language models, but its deployment is limited by the high variance of gra…

cs.LG2025

KANO: Kolmogorov-Arnold Neural Operator

Jin Lee, Ziming Liu, Xinling Yu +4

We introduce Kolmogorov--Arnold Neural Operator (KANO), a dual-domain neural operator jointly parameterized by both spectral and spatial bases with intrinsic symbolic interpretabil…

cs.LG2025

DeepOHeat-v1: Efficient Operator Learning for Fast and Trustworthy Thermal Simulation and Optimization in 3D-IC Design

Xinling Yu, Ziyue Liu, Hai Li +5

Thermal analysis is crucial in 3D-IC design due to increased power density and complex heat dissipation paths. Although operator learning frameworks such as DeepOHeat~\cite{liu2023…

cs.LG2025

Scalable Back-Propagation-Free Training of Optical Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Yequan Zhao, Xinling Yu, Xian Xiao +6

Physics intelligence and digital twins often require rapid and repeated performance evaluation of various engineering systems (e.g. robots, autonomous vehicles, semiconductor chips…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Experimental Demonstration of an Optical Neural PDE Solver via On-Chip PINN Training

Yequan Zhao, Xian Xiao, Antoine Descos +6

Partial differential equation (PDE) is an important math tool in science and engineering. This paper experimentally demonstrates an optical neural PDE solver by leveraging the back…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Photonic KAN: a Kolmogorov-Arnold network inspired efficient photonic neuromorphic architecture

Yiwei Peng, Sean Hooten, Xinling Yu +7

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) models were recently proposed and claimed to provide improved parameter scaling and interpretability compared to conventional multilayer perceptron…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Separable Operator Networks

Xinling Yu, Sean Hooten, Ziyue Liu +4

Operator learning has become a powerful tool in machine learning for modeling complex physical systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). Although Deep Operator Net…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Real-Time FJ/MAC PDE Solvers via Tensorized, Back-Propagation-Free Optical PINN Training

Yequan Zhao, Xian Xiao, Xinling Yu +5

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) numerically often requires huge computing time, energy cost, and hardware resources in practical applications. This has limited their…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

Tensor-Compressed Back-Propagation-Free Training for (Physics-Informed) Neural Networks

Yequan Zhao, Xinling Yu, Zhixiong Chen +3

Backward propagation (BP) is widely used to compute the gradients in neural network training. However, it is hard to implement BP on edge devices due to the lack of hardware and so…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

DeepOHeat: Operator Learning-based Ultra-fast Thermal Simulation in 3D-IC Design

Ziyue Liu, Yixing Li, Jing Hu +5

Thermal issue is a major concern in 3D integrated circuit (IC) design. Thermal optimization of 3D IC often requires massive expensive PDE simulations. Neural network-based thermal…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

PIFON-EPT: MR-Based Electrical Property Tomography Using Physics-Informed Fourier Networks

Xinling Yu, José E. C. Serrallés, Ilias I. Giannakopoulos +4

We propose Physics-Informed Fourier Networks for Electrical Properties (EP) Tomography (PIFON-EPT), a novel deep learning-based method for EP reconstruction using noisy and/or inco…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

MR-Based Electrical Property Reconstruction Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Xinling Yu, José E. C. Serrallés, Ilias I. Giannakopoulos +4

Electrical properties (EP), namely permittivity and electric conductivity, dictate the interactions between electromagnetic waves and biological tissue. EP can be potential biomark…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

TT-PINN: A Tensor-Compressed Neural PDE Solver for Edge Computing

Ziyue Liu, Xinling Yu, Zheng Zhang

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have been increasingly employed due to their capability of modeling complex physics systems. To achieve better expressiveness, increasingly…

cs.LG2020★ 121 cited

When and why PINNs fail to train: A neural tangent kernel perspective

Sifan Wang, Xinling Yu, Paris Perdikaris

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have lately received great attention thanks to their flexibility in tackling a wide range of forward and inverse problems involving partial…