让神经网络自动学习最优网格分布,提升物理模拟精度。
Learning to Discretize: Diffusion-Based Adaptive Mesh with Spectral Guidance

- 用扩散模型生成自适应网格,结合物理约束与谱信息。
- 在五类偏微分方程上表现优于固定网格和手工网格方法。
- 适合需要高精度空间/频域分配的复杂物理建模任务。
大多数神经偏微分方程(PDE)代理模型在网格确定后才学习场的演化。然而,在任何算子应用前,网格已决定了空间、分辨率与频带宽度的建模能力分配。我们提出这一隐含设计应可学习,从而引出新问题:代理模型能否在预测场演化前学会何处应有高分辨率?我们将自适应离散化建模为物理约束下的有效网格位移条件生成问题。扩散模型在PDE场预测中的成功表明其在类似结构约束下学习自适应离散化的潜力。为此提出两阶段扩散框架:第一阶段基于观测动态学习r-自适应位移网格;第二阶段从网格增强表示中预测解演化。网格生成器通过物理感知代理通道、几何合法性约束和局部谱集中性进行正则化,确保适应行为兼具物理解释性与数值合法性。在五类PDE场景中,基于扩散的自适应离散化性能媲美自适应网格与降阶基线,尤其在固定或手工分配不足的场景中优势显著。核心结论并非存在通用最优网格规则,而是离散化应按场景学习:不同空间与谱结构偏好不同分配策略。这将神经PDE求解器的自适应网格从特定求解器启发式重构为生成式表征学习问题。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Most neural partial differential equation (PDE) surrogates learn how fields evolve after a grid has already been chosen. However, before any operator is applied, the grid has already determined how modeling capacity is allocated across space, resolution, and spectral bandwidth. We argue that this hidden design choice should itself be learnable, leading to a question different from standard operator learning: can a surrogate learn where resolution should exist before predicting field evolution? We formulate adaptive discretization as a physics-constrained conditional generation problem over valid mesh displacements. The success of diffusion models in PDE field prediction suggests their potential for learning adaptive discretizations under similar structured constraints. This leads to a two-stage diffusion framework: Stage 1 learns an r-adaptive displacement mesh conditioned on the observed dynamics, while Stage 2 predicts the solution evolution from the mesh-informed representation. The mesh generator is regularized by physics-aware proxy channels, geometric validity constraints, and local spectral concentration so that adaptation remains physically interpretable and numerically legal. Across five PDE regimes, the results show that diffusion-based learned discretization is competitive with adaptive-mesh and reduced-order baselines, with particularly strong gains in regimes where fixed or handcrafted allocation is insufficient. The main conclusion is not that there exists a universal optimal mesh rule, but that discretization should be learned in a regime-dependent manner: different spatial and spectral structures favor different allocation behaviors. This reframes adaptive meshing for neural PDE solvers from a solver-specific heuristic into a generative representation-learning problem.
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