Multi-Scale Finite Expression Method for PDEs with Oscillatory Solutions on Complex Domains

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22497v1
• Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 02:26:49 GMT
• Title: Multi-Scale Finite Expression Method for PDEs with Oscillatory Solutions on Complex Domains
• Authors: Gareth Hardwick, Haizhao Yang,
• Abstract summary: High-frequency oscillations and intricate geometries result in prohibitively expensive representations for traditional numerical methods.<n>We introduce an enhanced Finite Expression Method (FEX) designed to address these challenges with improved accuracy, interpretability, and computational efficiency.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) with highly oscillatory solutions on complex domains remains a challenging and important problem. High-frequency oscillations and intricate geometries often result in prohibitively expensive representations for traditional numerical methods and lead to difficult optimization landscapes for machine learning-based approaches. In this work, we introduce an enhanced Finite Expression Method (FEX) designed to address these challenges with improved accuracy, interpretability, and computational efficiency. The proposed framework incorporates three key innovations: a symbolic spectral composition module that enables FEX to learn and represent multiscale oscillatory behavior; a redesigned linear input layer that significantly expands the expressivity of the model; and an eigenvalue formulation that extends FEX to a new class of problems involving eigenvalue PDEs. Through extensive numerical experiments, we demonstrate that FEX accurately resolves oscillatory PDEs on domains containing multiple holes of varying shapes and sizes. Compared with existing neural network-based solvers, FEX achieves substantially higher accuracy while yielding interpretable, closed-form solutions that expose the underlying structure of the problem. These advantages, often absent in conventional finite element, finite difference, and black-box neural approaches, highlight FEX as a powerful and transparent framework for solving complex PDEs.

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