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ArticleNature communications2025

One-shot learning for solution operators of partial differential equations.

Anran Jiao, Haiyang He, Rishikesh Ranade, Jay Pathak, Lu Lu

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  1. Neural Operator-enabled Topology-informed Evolutionary Strategy for PDE-Constrained Optimization.IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation : a publication of the IEEE Neural Networks Council · 2026
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5 authors.

Anran JiaoDepartment of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-6084-110X
Haiyang HeAnsys Inc., San Jose, CA, USA.
Rishikesh RanadeNVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
Jay PathakAnsys Inc., San Jose, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2942-2771
Lu LuDepartment of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. lu.lu@yale.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5476-5768

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) DMS-2347833U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-SC0025592U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-SC0025593
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Learning and solving governing equations of a physical system, represented by partial differential equations (PDEs), from data is a central challenge in many areas of science and engineering. Traditional numerical methods can be computationally expensive for complex systems and require complete governing equations. Existing data-driven machine learning methods require large datasets to learn a surrogate solution operator, which could be impractical. Here, we propose a solution operator learning method that requires only one PDE solution, i.e., one-shot learning, along with suitable initial and boundary conditions. Leveraging the locality of derivatives, we define a local solution operator in small local domains, train it using a neural network, and use it to predict solutions of new input functions via mesh-based fixed-point iteration or meshfree neural-network based approaches. We test our method on various PDEs, complex geometries, and a practical spatial infection spread application, demonstrating its effectiveness and generalization capabilities.

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