Enhancing Fourier Neural Operators with Local Spatial Features

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17797v1
• Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:11:56 GMT
• Title: Enhancing Fourier Neural Operators with Local Spatial Features
• Authors: Chaoyu Liu, Davide Murari, Chris Budd, Lihao Liu, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a convolutional neural network (CNN) preprocessor to extract Local Spatial Features (LSFs) directly from input data.<n>Our findings show that this simple yet impactful modification enhances the representational capacity of FNOs and significantly improves performance on challenging PDE benchmarks.
• Score: 9.767300085430534
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Partial Differential Equation (PDE) problems often exhibit strong local spatial structures, and effectively capturing these structures is critical for approximating their solutions. Recently, the Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) has emerged as an efficient approach for solving these PDE problems. By using parametrization in the frequency domain, FNOs can efficiently capture global patterns. However, this approach inherently overlooks the critical role of local spatial features, as frequency-domain parameterized convolutions primarily emphasize global interactions without encoding comprehensive localized spatial dependencies. Although several studies have attempted to address this limitation, their extracted Local Spatial Features (LSFs) remain insufficient, and computational efficiency is often compromised. To address this limitation, we introduce a convolutional neural network (CNN) preprocessor to extract LSFs directly from input data, resulting in a hybrid architecture termed \textit{Conv-FNO}. Furthermore, we introduce two novel resizing schemes to make our Conv-FNO resolution invariant. In this work, we focus on demonstrating the effectiveness of incorporating LSFs into FNOs by conducting both a theoretical analysis and extensive numerical experiments. Our findings show that this simple yet impactful modification enhances the representational capacity of FNOs and significantly improves performance on challenging PDE benchmarks.

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