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Kernel Neural Operators (KNOs) for Scalable, Memory-efficient, Geometrically-flexible Operator Learning
Lowery, Matthew, Turnage, John, Morrow, Zachary, Jakeman, John D., Narayan, Akil, Zhe, Shandian, Shankar, Varun
This paper introduces the Kernel Neural Operator (KNO), a novel operator learning technique that uses deep kernel-based integral operators in conjunction with quadrature for function-space approximation of operators (maps from functions to functions). KNOs use parameterized, closed-form, finitely-smooth, and compactly-supported kernels with trainable sparsity parameters within the integral operators to significantly reduce the number of parameters that must be learned relative to existing neural operators. Moreover, the use of quadrature for numerical integration endows the KNO with geometric flexibility that enables operator learning on irregular geometries. Numerical results demonstrate that on existing benchmarks the training and test accuracy of KNOs is higher than popular operator learning techniques while using at least an order of magnitude fewer trainable parameters. KNOs thus represent a new paradigm of low-memory, geometrically-flexible, deep operator learning, while retaining the implementation simplicity and transparency of traditional kernel methods from both scientific computing and machine learning.
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Koopman neural operator as a mesh-free solver of non-linear partial differential equations
Xiong, Wei, Huang, Xiaomeng, Zhang, Ziyang, Deng, Ruixuan, Sun, Pei, Tian, Yang
The lacking of analytic solutions of diverse partial differential equations (PDEs) gives birth to series of computational techniques for numerical solutions. In machine learning, numerous latest advances of solver designs are accomplished in developing neural operators, a kind of mesh-free approximators of the infinite-dimensional operators that map between different parameterization spaces of equation solutions. Although neural operators exhibit generalization capacities for learning an entire PDE family simultaneously, they become less accurate and explainable while learning long-term behaviours of non-linear PDE families. In this paper, we propose Koopman neural operator (KNO), a new neural operator, to overcome these challenges. With the same objective of learning an infinite-dimensional mapping between Banach spaces that serves as the solution operator of target PDE family, our approach differs from existing models by formulating a non-linear dynamic system of equation solution. By approximating the Koopman operator, an infinite-dimensional linear operator governing all possible observations of the dynamic system, to act on the flow mapping of dynamic system, we can equivalently learn the solution of an entire non-linear PDE family by solving simple linear prediction problems. In zero-shot prediction and long-term prediction experiments on representative PDEs (e.g., the Navier-Stokes equation), KNO exhibits notable advantages in breaking the tradeoff between accuracy and efficiency (e.g., model size) while previous state-of-the-art models are limited. These results suggest that more efficient PDE solvers can be developed by the joint efforts from physics and machine learning.
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Oh Kno it didn't! Tablet gets tested by Lego robot
With today's proliferation of tablets it can be hard to distinguish one device from the next. But here's something that sets the Kno Textbook Tablet apart (besides its big dual displays and focus on students): it's getting stress-tested by a Lego robot. The Kno product development team needed a way to automate tests of the ambient light sensor and the note-taking stylus' interaction with the LCD touch screen. So they built a Lego robotic arm (they give it the far less sexy name of "accelerated life test apparatus") to shoulder the repetitive work. In the behind-the-scenes video below, you'll see the arm directing the pen back and forth and up and down across a screen, while another robot makes the device itself go back and forth.