Bridging Operator Learning and Conditioned Neural Fields: A Unifying Perspective

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13998v1
• Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 21:13:23 GMT
• Title: Bridging Operator Learning and Conditioned Neural Fields: A Unifying Perspective
• Authors: Sifan Wang, Jacob H Seidman, Shyam Sankaran, Hanwen Wang, George J. Pappas, Paris Perdikaris,
• Abstract summary: Operator learning is an emerging area of machine learning which aims to learn mappings between infinite dimensional function spaces. We find that many commonly used operator learning models can be viewed as neural fields with conditioning mechanisms restricted to point-wise and/or global information. Motivated by this, we propose the Continuous Vision Transformer (CViT), a novel neural operator architecture that employs a vision transformer encoder.
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• Abstract: Operator learning is an emerging area of machine learning which aims to learn mappings between infinite dimensional function spaces. Here we uncover a connection between operator learning architectures and conditioned neural fields from computer vision, providing a unified perspective for examining differences between popular operator learning models. We find that many commonly used operator learning models can be viewed as neural fields with conditioning mechanisms restricted to point-wise and/or global information. Motivated by this, we propose the Continuous Vision Transformer (CViT), a novel neural operator architecture that employs a vision transformer encoder and uses cross-attention to modulate a base field constructed with a trainable grid-based positional encoding of query coordinates. Despite its simplicity, CViT achieves state-of-the-art results across challenging benchmarks in climate modeling and fluid dynamics. Our contributions can be viewed as a first step towards adapting advanced computer vision architectures for building more flexible and accurate machine learning models in physical sciences.

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