arXiv:2606.17513cs.LGcs.AI2026-06

让神经算子在复杂几何下自动给出靠谱的不确定性估计。

Geometry-Aware Post-Hoc Uncertainty Quantification in Operator Learning

论文配图:Geometry-Aware Post-Hoc Uncertainty Quantification in Operator Learning
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  • 用嵌入特征构建高斯过程,直接在算子内部空间做后验不确定量化。
  • 五类方程测试中精度不降,不确定性校准效果媲美深度集成但成本极低。
  • 对几何变化鲁棒,误差集中在物理关键区域如激波前沿,适合工程仿真场景。

神经算子能快速替代偏微分方程求解,但其确定性输出限制了在需要不确定性量化任务中的应用,尤其在几何变化条件下。现有方法多聚焦于网络参数不确定性,忽略了算子自身学习到的几何感知表示。本文提出 REEF-GP(Residual on Embedded Features Gaussian Process)——一种后处理不确定性量化框架,将高斯过程拟合到冻结神经算子的残差上,其内部嵌入特征定义核函数空间。无需额外特征映射,直接利用算子内在坐标-特征表示构造几何感知不确定性。为保障在非结构化域上的稳定性与可扩展性,引入谱归一化投影、异方差几何噪声及基于子集的高效训练,避免了受限的低秩近似。在五种具有不同几何的偏微分方程基准测试中,该方法在保持预测精度的同时,实现与深度集成相当的校准不确定性,但计算开销仅为后者的极小部分。在几何分布偏移下仍保持鲁棒性,不确定性集中于物理意义明确区域(如激波前沿)。结果表明,可在算子学习的特征空间中直接实现准确且可扩展的后处理不确定性量化,提供一种实用的替代参数中心化方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Neural operators provide fast surrogates for PDEs but their deterministic predictions limit their use in tasks requiring uncertainty quantification (UQ), especially under geometric variability. Existing approaches primarily model uncertainty in network parameters, largely overlooking the geometry-aware representations learned by the operator itself. We propose REEF-GP (Residual on Embedded Features Gaussian Process), a post-hoc UQ framework that fits a GP to the residuals of a frozen neural operator whose internal embeddings define the kernel feature space. Rather than learning a separate feature map, REEF-GP adapts the operator's intrinsic coordinate-feature representations to construct geometry-aware uncertainties. To ensure stability and scalability on unstructured domains, REEF-GP incorporates spectral-normalized projections, heteroscedastic geometry-aware noise, and efficient subset-based training that avoids restrictive low-rank approximations. Across five PDE benchmarks with varying geometries, REEF-GP preserves predictive accuracy while achieving calibrated uncertainty estimates competitive with deep ensembles but at a fraction of their cost. Our approach remains robust under geometric distribution shift, with uncertainty concentrating in physically meaningful regions (e.g., shock fronts). Our results demonstrate that accurate and scalable post-hoc UQ for neural operators can be achieved directly in their learned feature space, offering a practical alternative to parameter-centric approaches.

神经算子不确定性量化几何感知高斯过程

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