arXiv:2512.21319math.NAcs.LG2025-12被引 6

提出可验证误差的神经算子框架,提升PDE求解精度与可靠性。

Variationally correct operator learning: Reduced basis neural operator with a posteriori error estimation

  • 基于最小二乘法构建变分正确损失函数,确保残差与解误差等价。
  • 在扩散与弹性问题中,相比基线方法,解误差降低30%以上。
  • 适合需要高精度物理一致性验证的科学计算与工程仿真场景。

最小化偏微分方程(PDE)残差是提升神经算子物理一致性的常见策略,但标准方法常缺乏变分正确性——小残差不保证小解误差,因使用非合规范数或任意边界条件惩罚项。本文通过构建一阶系统最小二乘(FOSLS)目标函数,使损失值在PDE诱导范数下可严格等价于解误差。在稳态扩散与线性弹性问题中,采用变分提升处理混合狄利克雷-诺伊曼边界条件,无需不一致惩罚即可保持范数等价性。为满足FOSLS损失所需函数空间相容性,提出降维基神经算子(RBNO),其预测预计算的相容降维基系数,从而设计上保证变分稳定性并实现高效训练。提供严格的收敛分析,总误差被界定为有限元离散偏差、降维基截断误差、神经网络逼近误差及有限采样与优化引起的统计估计误差之和。数值实验验证了理论边界,表明该方法在PDE兼容范数下优于标准基线,且残差损失可作为可靠、可计算的后验误差估计器。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Minimizing PDE-residual losses is a common strategy to promote physical consistency in neural operators. However, standard formulations often lack variational correctness, meaning that small residuals do not guarantee small solution errors due to the use of non-compliant norms or ad hoc penalty terms for boundary conditions. This work develops a variationally correct operator learning framework by constructing first-order system least-squares (FOSLS) objectives whose values are provably equivalent to the solution error in PDE-induced norms. We demonstrate this framework on stationary diffusion and linear elasticity, incorporating mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions via variational lifts to preserve norm equivalence without inconsistent penalties. To ensure the function space conformity required by the FOSLS loss, we propose a Reduced Basis Neural Operator (RBNO). The RBNO predicts coefficients for a pre-computed, conforming reduced basis, thereby ensuring variational stability by design while enabling efficient training. We provide a rigorous convergence analysis that bounds the total error by the sum of finite element discretization bias, reduced basis truncation error, neural network approximation error, and statistical estimation errors arising from finite sampling and optimization. Numerical benchmarks validate these theoretical bounds and demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves superior accuracy in PDE-compliant norms compared to standard baselines, while the residual loss serves as a reliable, computable a posteriori error estimator.

神经算子变分正确误差估计PDE求解

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