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most citedSparse Dynamics for Partial Differential Equations

175 citations · 317 across the 46 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2026

Loss Curvature as a Sampling-Free Proxy for Memorization in Diffusion Models

Shashank Sule, Xinyue Yu, Boonam Shin +3

Understanding the mechanism behind why diffusion models memorize their training data remains an open question in generative modeling. In this paper, we examine this question from t…

math.NA2026

Wasserstein Moment Nudging for Vlasov-Poisson Data Assimilation

Liyao Lyu, Xinyue Yu, David Schneidinger +1

We introduce a continuous data assimilation method for particle-in-cell simulations of the Vlasov-Poisson equation when only hydrodynamic moments are observed. The forecast state i…

cs.LG2026

Kernel Methods for Learning Operators with Multiple Inputs and Outputs

Adrien Weihs, Chunyang Liao, Jingmin Sun +1

Learning mappings between infinite-dimensional objects is a central challenge in scientific machine learning. We introduce a general kernel-based encoder-decoder framework for oper…

math.NA2026

Multiscale Nudging: From Macroscopic Observations to Microscopic Dynamics

Liyao Lyu, Xinyue Yu, Hayden Schaeffer

We introduce a measure-based nudging framework for assimilating macroscopic observations into microscopic mean-field particle dynamics. The central difficulty is a representation m…

cs.LG2026

Multiple Neural Operators Achieve Near-Optimal Rates for Multi-Task Learning

Adrien Weihs, Hayden Schaeffer

We study the approximation and statistical complexity of learning collections of operators in a shared multi-task setting, with a focus on the Multiple Neural Operators (MNO) archi…

math.NA2026

MVNN: A Measure-Valued Neural Network for Learning McKean-Vlasov Dynamics from Particle Data

Liyao Lyu, Xinyue Yu, Hayden Schaeffer

Collective behaviors that emerge from interactions are fundamental to numerous biological systems. To learn such interacting forces from observations, we introduce a measure-valued…

cs.LG2026

Generalization Bounds and Statistical Guarantees for Multi-Task and Multiple Operator Learning with MNO Networks

Adrien Weihs, Hayden Schaeffer

Multiple operator learning concerns learning operator families indexed by an operator descriptor . Training data are collected hierarchically by sampl…

cs.LG2026

Adam Improves Muon: Adaptive Moment Estimation with Orthogonalized Momentum

Minxin Zhang, Yuxuan Liu, Hayden Schaeffer

Efficient stochastic optimization typically integrates an update direction that performs well in the deterministic regime with a mechanism adapting to stochastic perturbations. Whi…

cs.LG2025

PI-MFM: Physics-informed multimodal foundation model for solving partial differential equations

Min Zhu, Jingmin Sun, Zecheng Zhang +2

Partial differential equations (PDEs) govern a wide range of physical systems, and recent multimodal foundation models have shown promise for learning PDE solution operators across…

cs.LG2025

Regularized Random Fourier Features and Finite Element Reconstruction for Operator Learning in Sobolev Space

Xinyue Yu, Hayden Schaeffer

Operator learning is a data-driven approximation of mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, such as the solution operators of partial differential equations. Kernel-…

math.NA2025

Finite Element Representation Network (FERN) for Operator Learning with a Localized Trainable Basis

Zecheng Zhang, Hao Liu, Guosheng Fu +2

We propose a finite-element local basis-based operator learning framework for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Operator learning aims to approximate mappings from inp…

cs.LG2025

A Deep Learning Framework for Multi-Operator Learning: Architectures and Approximation Theory

Adrien Weihs, Jingmin Sun, Zecheng Zhang +1

While many problems in machine learning focus on learning mappings between finite-dimensional spaces, scientific applications require approximating mappings between function spaces…

cs.LG2025

AdaGrad Meets Muon: Adaptive Stepsizes for Orthogonal Updates

Minxin Zhang, Yuxuan Liu, Hayden Schaeffer

The recently proposed Muon optimizer updates weight matrices via orthogonalized momentum and has demonstrated strong empirical success in large language model training. However, it…

cs.LG2025

Cauchy Random Features for Operator Learning in Sobolev Space

Chunyang Liao, Deanna Needell, Hayden Schaeffer

Operator learning is the approximation of operators between infinite dimensional Banach spaces using machine learning approaches. While most progress in this area has been driven b…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

A Multimodal PDE Foundation Model for Prediction and Scientific Text Descriptions

Elisa Negrini, Yuxuan Liu, Liu Yang +2

Neural networks are one tool for approximating non-linear differential equations used in scientific computing tasks such as surrogate modeling, real-time predictions, and optimal c…

cs.LG2025

BCAT: A Block Causal Transformer for PDE Foundation Models for Fluid Dynamics

Yuxuan Liu, Jingmin Sun, Hayden Schaeffer

We introduce BCAT, a PDE foundation model designed for autoregressive prediction of solutions to two dimensional fluid dynamics problems. Our approach uses a block causal transform…

math.OC2024

Inexact Proximal Point Algorithms for Zeroth-Order Global Optimization

Minxin Zhang, Fuqun Han, Yat Tin Chow +2

This work concerns the zeroth-order global minimization of continuous nonconvex functions with a unique global minimizer and possibly multiple local minimizers. We formulate a theo…

cs.LG2024

Differentially Private Random Feature Model

Chunyang Liao, Deanna Needell, Hayden Schaeffer +1

Designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms has received great attention in recent years, especially in the setting when the data contains sensitive information. Diffe…

cs.LG2024

DeepONet as a Multi-Operator Extrapolation Model: Distributed Pretraining with Physics-Informed Fine-Tuning

Zecheng Zhang, Christian Moya, Lu Lu +2

We propose a novel fine-tuning method to achieve multi-operator learning through training a distributed neural operator with diverse function data and then zero-shot fine-tuning th…

cs.LG2024

VICON: Vision In-Context Operator Networks for Multi-Physics Fluid Dynamics Prediction

Yadi Cao, Yuxuan Liu, Liu Yang +3

In-Context Operator Networks (ICONs) have demonstrated the ability to learn operators across diverse partial differential equations using few-shot, in-context learning. However, ex…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Neural Scaling Laws of Deep ReLU and Deep Operator Network: A Theoretical Study

Hao Liu, Zecheng Zhang, Wenjing Liao +1

Neural scaling laws play a pivotal role in the performance of deep neural networks and have been observed in a wide range of tasks. However, a complete theoretical framework for un…

cs.LG2024

Time-Series Forecasting, Knowledge Distillation, and Refinement within a Multimodal PDE Foundation Model

Derek Jollie, Jingmin Sun, Zecheng Zhang +1

Symbolic encoding has been used in multi-operator learning as a way to embed additional information for distinct time-series data. For spatiotemporal systems described by time-depe…

cs.LG2024

PROSE-FD: A Multimodal PDE Foundation Model for Learning Multiple Operators for Forecasting Fluid Dynamics

Yuxuan Liu, Jingmin Sun, Xinjie He +3

We propose PROSE-FD, a zero-shot multimodal PDE foundational model for simultaneous prediction of heterogeneous two-dimensional physical systems related to distinct fluid dynamics…

cs.LG2024

LeMON: Learning to Learn Multi-Operator Networks

Jingmin Sun, Zecheng Zhang, Hayden Schaeffer

Single-operator learning involves training a deep neural network to learn a specific operator, whereas recent work in multi-operator learning uses an operator embedding structure t…