Learning to Solve PDEs on Neural Shape Representations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21311v1
• Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 18:14:02 GMT
• Title: Learning to Solve PDEs on Neural Shape Representations
• Authors: Lilian Welschinger, Yilin Liu, Zican Wang, Niloy Mitra,
• Abstract summary: Solving partial differential equations on shapes underpins many shape analysis and engineering tasks.<n>Yet, prevailing PDE solvers operate on polygonal/triangle meshes while modern 3D assets increasingly live as neural representations.<n>We present a novel, mesh-free formulation that learns a local update operator conditioned on neural (local) shape attributes.
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• Abstract: Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on shapes underpins many shape analysis and engineering tasks; yet, prevailing PDE solvers operate on polygonal/triangle meshes while modern 3D assets increasingly live as neural representations. This mismatch leaves no suitable method to solve surface PDEs directly within the neural domain, forcing explicit mesh extraction or per-instance residual training, preventing end-to-end workflows. We present a novel, mesh-free formulation that learns a local update operator conditioned on neural (local) shape attributes, enabling surface PDEs to be solved directly where the (neural) data lives. The operator integrates naturally with prevalent neural surface representations, is trained once on a single representative shape, and generalizes across shape and topology variations, enabling accurate, fast inference without explicit meshing or per-instance optimization while preserving differentiability. Across analytic benchmarks (heat equation and Poisson solve on sphere) and real neural assets across different representations, our method slightly outperforms CPM while remaining reasonably close to FEM, and, to our knowledge, delivers the first end-to-end pipeline that solves surface PDEs on both neural and classical surface representations. Code will be released on acceptance.

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