arXiv:2609.05860cs.LG2026-09

神经微分方程算子在拓扑变化下表现下降,本文揭示其根源并提出新模型提升泛化能力。

Beyond Arbitrary Geometry: Topology Generalization In neural PDE Operators

论文配图:Beyond Arbitrary Geometry: Topology Generalization In neural PDE Operators
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  • 用霍奇热流分析拓扑对算子的影响,区分不变与衰减子空间
  • 6种架构中37个跨拓扑测试场景出现过度退化,谱结构是主要影响因素
  • 显式建模拓扑结构能提升非调和部分的预测精度,适合复杂几何场景

能够处理任意网格的神经算子常被视为具备几何泛化能力,但未见域的拓扑变化会改变偏微分方程算子的不变与衰减子空间。本文以霍奇热流为可控视角,提出TopoBox-3D,其中隧道与空腔变化贝蒂数支持,而精确霍奇分解可分离调和核与正谱部分。在六种架构中,隐式推断拓扑的模型在45个模型-任务-分布外(OOD)拓扑组合中有37个出现显著退化,而调和维度变化并未平均带来更强惩罚。主要困难源于谱特性:初始瑞利商是最稳定的误差预测因子,谱展宽为边与面链提供了额外信息。最令人惊讶的是,显式引入关联与调和坐标并未获得最佳核一致性准确率;然而,拓扑神经算子(TNO)在所有六个具有非平凡调和支撑的任务中,混合输入非调和精度排名第一。这些结果确立拓扑是超越任意几何兼容性的独立泛化轴,其影响遍及整个霍奇谱而非仅限于调和核。更广泛地,提示全局低频结构先验可能有助于组织快速衰减互补成分中的预测,为神经算子如何同时跨拓扑与几何泛化提供新视角。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Neural operators that accept arbitrary meshes are often treated as geometry-general, but unseen domain topology changes both the invariant and decaying subspaces of a PDE operator. We use Hodge heat flow as a controlled lens on this distinction and introduce TopoBox-3D, where tunnels and cavities vary Betti support while the exact Hodge decomposition separates the harmonic kernel from the positive spectrum. Across six architectures, models that infer topology implicitly suffer excess matched degradation in 37 of 45 model--task topology-OOD cells, yet cases that change harmonic dimension are not more strongly penalized on average. The dominant difficulty is instead spectral: the initial Rayleigh quotient is the most stable predictor of error, and spectral broadening adds information for edge and face cochains. Most strikingly, controlled probes show that explicit incidence and harmonic coordinates do not yield the best kernel-identity accuracy; nevertheless, TNO ranks first in mixed-input nonharmonic accuracy on all six tasks with nontrivial harmonic support. Together, these results establish topology as a distinct generalization axis beyond arbitrary-geometry compatibility and show that its influence extends across the Hodge spectrum rather than remaining confined to the harmonic kernel. More broadly, they suggest that global, low-frequency structural priors may help organize predictions in the faster-decaying complementary component, offering a new perspective on how neural operators may generalize across topology as well as geometry.

神经算子拓扑泛化霍奇分解偏微分方程

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