LOGLO-FNO: Efficient Learning of Local and Global Features in Fourier Neural Operators

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04260v1
• Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2025 19:35:04 GMT
• Title: LOGLO-FNO: Efficient Learning of Local and Global Features in Fourier Neural Operators
• Authors: Marimuthu Kalimuthu, David Holzmüller, Mathias Niepert,
• Abstract summary: High-frequency information is a critical challenge in machine learning.<n>Deep neural nets exhibit the so-called spectral bias toward learning low-frequency components.<n>We propose a novel frequency-sensitive loss term based on radially binned spectral errors.
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• Abstract: Modeling high-frequency information is a critical challenge in scientific machine learning. For instance, fully turbulent flow simulations of Navier-Stokes equations at Reynolds numbers 3500 and above can generate high-frequency signals due to swirling fluid motions caused by eddies and vortices. Faithfully modeling such signals using neural networks depends on accurately reconstructing moderate to high frequencies. However, it has been well known that deep neural nets exhibit the so-called spectral bias toward learning low-frequency components. Meanwhile, Fourier Neural Operators (FNOs) have emerged as a popular class of data-driven models in recent years for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) and for surrogate modeling in general. Although impressive results have been achieved on several PDE benchmark problems, FNOs often perform poorly in learning non-dominant frequencies characterized by local features. This limitation stems from the spectral bias inherent in neural networks and the explicit exclusion of high-frequency modes in FNOs and their variants. Therefore, to mitigate these issues and improve FNO's spectral learning capabilities to represent a broad range of frequency components, we propose two key architectural enhancements: (i) a parallel branch performing local spectral convolutions (ii) a high-frequency propagation module. Moreover, we propose a novel frequency-sensitive loss term based on radially binned spectral errors. This introduction of a parallel branch for local convolutions reduces number of trainable parameters by up to 50% while achieving the accuracy of baseline FNO that relies solely on global convolutions. Experiments on three challenging PDE problems in fluid mechanics and biological pattern formation, and the qualitative and spectral analysis of predictions show the effectiveness of our method over the state-of-the-art neural operator baselines.

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