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AOT-POT: Adaptive Operator Transformation for Large-Scale PDE Pre-training

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The pith

Transforming diverse PDE solution operators into a unified form allows one neural operator to pre-train effectively across many equation types.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper claims that the variety in PDE solution operators makes joint pre-training difficult when models are left unchanged. Instead of adding capacity alone, it applies adaptive transformations that reshape each operator into a simpler common structure depending on the input. This reshaping happens through parallel streams that are aggregated and mixed before and after processing layers. If successful, a single architecture can then approximate an entire family of operators rather than requiring separate models. Results show clear gains on multiple benchmarks and strong transfer when fine-tuned on new PDEs.

Core claim

AOT-POT expands hidden representations into multiple parallel streams, adaptively aggregates and redistributes them before and after each sub-layer, and mixes the streams using Sinkhorn-projected doubly stochastic matrices; these steps together convert structurally different PDE solution operators into aligned forms that a single neural operator can model jointly during large-scale pre-training.

What carries the argument

Adaptive operator transformation that expands representations into parallel streams, performs input-dependent aggregation and redistribution around sub-layers, and mixes streams via Sinkhorn-projected doubly stochastic matrices to align diverse solution operators.

If this is right

  • State-of-the-art results on 12 PDE benchmarks using only 3 percent extra parameters.
  • Relative L2 error drops by up to 77.6 percent and 40.9 percent on average compared with prior methods.
  • Fine-tuning the pre-trained model cuts L2 error by as much as 92 percent on in-domain PDEs and 89 percent on out-of-domain PDEs.
  • The same architecture works for both pre-training on mixed PDE data and quick adaptation to unseen equation types.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Operator alignment through input-dependent reshaping may prove useful for other families of scientific operators beyond PDEs, such as integral equations or stochastic processes.
  • This direction complements capacity scaling and could lower the parameter count needed for capable scientific foundation models.
  • Extending the stream-mixing mechanism to handle time-evolving or multi-scale PDEs would test whether the unification benefit holds for more complex dynamics.

Load-bearing premise

The best transformation that aligns solution operators changes with each PDE type and must be chosen adaptively from the input itself.

What would settle it

Training the same base architecture on the 12 PDE benchmarks but replacing the adaptive stream mixing and aggregation with a single fixed non-adaptive transformation, then checking whether relative L2 error reductions remain close to the reported 40.9 percent average.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.15793 by Bowen Zhou, Chao Zhang, Feng Wu, Hong Wang, Qitan Lv, Wen Wu, Xuenan Xu, Zhongkai Hao.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: An illustration of pre-training a PDE foundation model using extensive data from diverse datasets. The model is then fine￾tuned for diverse downstream operator learn￾ing tasks to handle complex scenarios. Despite this progress, multi-PDE pre-training is still highly challenging due to the heterogeneity of PDE solution operators: their underlying time-evolution operators are intricately complex and differ s… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Different PDEs benefit from different operator transformations. (a) Adding pointwise linear layers consistently reduces L2RE across all four PDE families; freezing a matched transform and retraining the backbone from scratch outperforms joint optimization. (b) Cross-PDE transfer of frozen transforms: rows index the source PDE (where the transform was trained), columns the target PDE (where the backbone is … view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Overall architecture of AOT-POT. After patchification and temporal aggregation, latent features are lifted into n parallel streams and refined by N×AOT blocks, each wrapping a Fourier attention layer. Inside an AOT block, the aggregation al , redistribution dl , and transformation kernel Tl together perform a per-input change of basis, mimicking an adaptive operator transformation. A gated readout then col… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Interpretability of Tl . Left: t-SNE embedding of the concatenated Tl features across all layers. Right: Confusion matrix of nearest-neighbor classification [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Full motivated experiment results on all 12 datasets (DPOT-Tiny). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Visualization of the learned pointwise linear transforms across all 12 pre-training datasets. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Scaling experiments. Average per￾formance across 12 pre-training datasets versus activated parameters. The dashed line is the power-law trend fitted to DPOT. Performance is 50 · − log10(L2RE) (higher is better; 100 = L2RE = 0.01 everywhere) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Full motivated experiment results on all 12 datasets (DPOT-Small, 30 M parameters). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p047_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Visualization of the learned pointwise linear transforms at DPOT-Small scale (30 M [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p048_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Full motivated experiment results on all 12 datasets (DPOT-Medium, 122 M parameters). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p049_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Visualization of the learned pointwise linear transforms at DPOT-Medium scale (122 M [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p050_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Epoch 50. Left: t-SNE embedding of T features. Most dataset clusters are already well-separated, though PDEArena and PDEArena-Cond partially overlap. Right: Confusion matrix showing near-perfect classification on most datasets, with residual confusion between the two PDEArena variants [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p051_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Epoch 150. Left: t-SNE clusters become tighter and more separated. Right: PDEArena accuracy improves to 98%, though PDBench-CNS shows a transient dip to 93% [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p051_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Epoch 250. Left: t-SNE embedding shows well-defined, compact clusters for all datasets. Right: Classification accuracy reaches ≥97% on all datasets, with PDEArena-Cond achieving 100%. 51 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p051_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: AOT-POT-Tiny at Epoch 1000. Left: t-SNE embedding of T features. All seven dataset groups form well-separated clusters, with only minor proximity between PDEArena and PDEArena￾Cond reflecting their shared Navier–Stokes governing equations. Right: The corresponding confusion matrix achieves 98.3% overall accuracy. The remaining residual confusion (11% of PDEArena-Cond samples classified as PDEArena) is con… view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: AOT-POT-Medium at Epoch 1000. Left: t-SNE embedding of T features. Every dataset group is mapped to a tight, isolated cluster, including the previously confusable PDEArena and PDEArena-Cond pair. Right: The confusion matrix is perfectly diagonal with 100% accuracy across all seven dataset groups, indicating that increased model capacity sharpens the PDE-discriminative structure encoded in T . 52 [PITH_FU… view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Training Stability of AOT-POT vs. DPOT. Mean L2 relative error averaged over all 12 pre-training datasets, plotted on a logarithmic scale over 1000 training epochs. Panels (a)–(c) correspond to the Tiny, Small, and Medium model scales, respectively. The DPOT baseline (grey) exhibits occasional sharp loss spikes that exceed the plot range, indicative of transient numerical instability in the standard resid… view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Propagation Stability of AOT-POT. Top row (a)–(c): single-layer Amax Gain Magnitude per sub-layer. Bottom row (d)–(f): composite Amax Gain Magnitude as a function of the starting sub-layer index l. The grey horizontal line denotes the ideal forward signal gain (= 1); the blue curve shows the backward gradient gain. For all three model scales, the forward signal gain is exactly preserved at 1.0 by the Sink… view at source ↗
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: FNO-ν=1e-5: vorticity ω. Auto-regressive predictions over 10 timesteps. Rows 1–4: ground truth and predictions from AOT-POT-Ti/S/M. Rows 5–7: pointwise absolute error. Errors concentrate at vortex filaments and grow with rollout length, with AOT-POT-M achieving the lowest error throughout. 54 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p054_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: FNO-ν=1e-4: vorticity ω. Auto-regressive predictions over 20 timesteps. The longer rollout horizon amplifies inter-scale differences: AOT-POT-M maintains vortex sharpness through the full trajectory while AOT-POT-Ti shows progressive blurring of fine-scale features. 55 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p055_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: FNO-ν=1e-3: vorticity ω. Auto-regressive predictions over 20 timesteps. High viscosity yields smooth dynamics that all three model scales predict with near-zero error, confirming efficient capacity allocation in the AOT architecture. 56 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p056_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: PDBench-CNS (M=1, η=1e-1, ζ=1e-1): density ρ. Predictions over 11 timesteps. The initial perturbation decays rapidly under high viscosity. All three scales achieve very low error (< 0.003), with minimal inter-scale differences on this relatively smooth dynamical regime. 57 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p057_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: PDBench-CNS (M=1, η=1e-2, ζ=1e-2): density ρ. Low viscosity sustains persistent density structures with high gradients. AOT-POT-Ti accumulates visible high-frequency artifacts near shock regions, while AOT-POT-M maintains the cleanest predictions throughout. 58 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p058_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 24. Figure 24: PDBench-CNS (M=1, η=1e-2, ζ=1e-2): pressure p. The pressure field ranges from ∼65 to ∼125. Error patterns co-localize with shock interfaces and compression regions. AOT-POT-M achieves the most uniform and lowest-magnitude error distribution. 59 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p059_24.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 25. Figure 25: PDBench-CNS (M=0.1, η=1e-1, ζ=1e-1): density ρ. Near-incompressible flow with rapid decay. All three scales achieve errors on the order of 10−4 , the lowest among all CNS configurations. 60 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p060_25.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 26. Figure 26: PDBench-CNS (M=0.1, η=1e-2, ζ=1e-2): density ρ. Subsonic low-viscosity flow sustains moderate-amplitude vortex structures. Errors concentrate at interaction regions between density perturbations, with a clear Ti > S > M hierarchy. 61 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p061_26.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 27. Figure 27: PDBench-SWE: water height h. Predictions over 91 timesteps—the longest rollout in our benchmark. The radially symmetric wave propagation is faithfully reproduced by all three scales. Errors form a distinctive ring pattern co-localized with the propagating wavefront. 62 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p062_27.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 28. Figure 28: PDBench-DR: activator. Predictions over 91 timesteps. Turing patterns progressively emerge from a near-homogeneous state. Errors concentrate at pattern boundaries (spot and stripe edges) and grow as the patterns sharpen over time. 63 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p063_28.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 29. Figure 29: PDBench-DR: inhibitor. The inhibitor field shows the complementary (anti-correlated) Turing pattern. Error distributions mirror those of the activator channel, with errors localized at the interfaces between pattern domains. 64 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p064_29.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 30. Figure 30: PDEArena-NS: velocity vx. Predictions over 4 timesteps. Even on this short horizon, the error maps reveal a clear scaling hierarchy. Errors concentrate at shear layers and vortex cores. vy and |v| show consistent patterns. 65 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p065_30.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 31. Figure 31: PDEArena-NS-cond: velocity vx. Predictions over 46 timesteps. The jet-to-turbulence transition produces rapidly growing errors that reveal the strongest scaling hierarchy among all datasets: AOT-POT-M maintains coherent flow structures through late timesteps where AOT-POT￾Ti shows substantial degradation. vy and |v| exhibit consistent trends. 66 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p066_31.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 32. Figure 32: CFDBench: velocity vx. Predictions over 10 timesteps. Errors concentrate near solid boundaries and flow separation regions. AOT-POT-Ti shows grid-like artifacts while AOT-POT-S/M produce smoother error distributions. vy shows consistent trends. 67 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p067_32.png] view at source ↗
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Pre-training neural operators on diverse partial differential equation (PDE) datasets has emerged as a promising direction for building general-purpose surrogate models in scientific machine learning. However, the inherent complexity and structural diversity of PDE solution operators make multi-PDE pre-training fundamentally challenging. Existing methods mainly address this by increasing model capacity, while leaving the target solution operators unchanged. Inspired by classical numerical analysis, we instead propose to transform complex and diverse solution operators into simpler, better-aligned forms that are easier to model jointly. Since the optimal transformation varies across PDE types, it must be adaptive and input-dependent, allowing a single neural operator to approximate an entire family of operators. We instantiate this idea as AOT-POT (adaptive operator-transformation for pre-training operator transformer), which expands hidden representations into multiple parallel streams, adaptively aggregates and redistributes them before and after each sub-layer, and mixes streams through Sinkhorn-projected doubly stochastic matrices for stable training. These mechanisms together reshape diverse solution operators into a unified form that can be effectively modeled by a single architecture. Empirically, AOT-POT achieves state-of-the-art performance on 12 PDE benchmarks with only 3\% additional parameters, reducing relative L2 error by up to 77.6\% (40.9\% on average). Fine-tuning AOT-POT further reduces L2 error by up to 92\% on in-domain PDEs and 89\% on out-of-domain PDEs (unseen types during pre-training), demonstrating that adaptive operator transformation is an effective and complementary direction for advancing PDE foundation models beyond simply scaling model capacity.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes AOT-POT for pre-training neural operators across diverse PDE datasets. It introduces adaptive operator transformation via parallel streams, input-dependent aggregation before/after sub-layers, and Sinkhorn-projected doubly stochastic matrices to reshape varied solution operators into a unified form amenable to a single architecture. The central empirical claim is state-of-the-art performance on 12 PDE benchmarks using only 3% extra parameters, with relative L2 error reductions up to 77.6% (40.9% average), plus further gains from fine-tuning (up to 92% in-domain, 89% out-of-domain).

Significance. If the unification mechanism and performance claims hold under scrutiny, the work offers a promising complementary direction to capacity scaling for PDE foundation models. Grounding the approach in classical numerical analysis and demonstrating out-of-domain generalization are strengths; the modest parameter overhead and reported error reductions on multiple benchmarks could influence future multi-PDE pre-training designs if the latent operations are shown to meaningfully align operators rather than simply expand expressivity.

major comments (2)
  1. [Method] Method section (description of AOT-POT mechanisms): The core claim that parallel streams, adaptive aggregation, and Sinkhorn mixing 'reshape diverse solution operators into a unified form' is load-bearing yet unsupported by any direct evidence. No operator-norm distances, kernel alignments, or consistency metrics between input-to-output maps of different PDEs are provided before versus after the latent transformations; all operations act exclusively on hidden representations, leaving open whether gains stem from unification or incidental capacity increase.
  2. [Experiments] Experiments section (benchmark results): The reported SOTA performance and error reductions on 12 PDEs cannot be fully assessed without explicit data splits, verification steps, or ablations that isolate the adaptive transformation from the added parallel-stream capacity. This directly affects attribution of the 40.9% average improvement and the out-of-domain fine-tuning gains.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The baseline model against which the 'up to 77.6% (40.9% on average)' relative L2 reductions are measured should be stated explicitly for immediate clarity.
  2. Notation and figures: Introduce the definition of the doubly stochastic matrices and the aggregation weights earlier in the text; some figure captions would benefit from additional detail on what the parallel streams represent visually.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which help clarify the presentation of our contributions. We address each major point below and outline targeted revisions to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Method] Method section (description of AOT-POT mechanisms): The core claim that parallel streams, adaptive aggregation, and Sinkhorn mixing 'reshape diverse solution operators into a unified form' is load-bearing yet unsupported by any direct evidence. No operator-norm distances, kernel alignments, or consistency metrics between input-to-output maps of different PDEs are provided before versus after the latent transformations; all operations act exclusively on hidden representations, leaving open whether gains stem from unification or incidental capacity increase.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the manuscript does not include direct quantitative metrics such as operator-norm distances or kernel alignments computed on the input-to-output maps before and after the transformations. All operations indeed occur on hidden representations, consistent with standard neural operator designs. The unification claim is grounded in the input-dependent adaptive aggregation and Sinkhorn-projected mixing, which are motivated by classical operator preconditioning techniques to simplify and align diverse operators in latent space. To address the concern, we will add a dedicated discussion subsection in the revised manuscript that elaborates on this motivation with references to numerical analysis literature and includes proxy empirical analyses, such as pairwise representation similarities across PDE types with and without the adaptive components. These additions will help clarify attribution beyond the modest 3% parameter overhead. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section (benchmark results): The reported SOTA performance and error reductions on 12 PDEs cannot be fully assessed without explicit data splits, verification steps, or ablations that isolate the adaptive transformation from the added parallel-stream capacity. This directly affects attribution of the 40.9% average improvement and the out-of-domain fine-tuning gains.

    Authors: We agree that more explicit documentation is warranted for full reproducibility and attribution. In the revised manuscript we will expand the experimental section to include detailed data splits (train/validation/test ratios and any preprocessing steps) for each of the 12 benchmarks, along with verification procedures such as multiple random seeds and statistical significance tests. We will also incorporate new ablation experiments that disable the adaptive aggregation and Sinkhorn mechanisms while retaining equivalent parallel-stream capacity, allowing direct isolation of their contribution to the reported error reductions. For the fine-tuning results, we will add details on the selection of out-of-domain PDE types and the fine-tuning protocol to better support the generalization claims. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation remains self-contained

full rationale

The paper defines AOT-POT mechanisms (parallel streams, adaptive aggregation, Sinkhorn mixing) explicitly as operations on latent hidden representations inside the neural operator. These are presented as architectural choices whose effect on unifying solution operators is then tested empirically on external PDE benchmarks. No equation reduces the claimed unification to a fitted parameter renamed as prediction, nor does any load-bearing step rely on a self-citation whose content is itself unverified or tautological. The performance numbers (L2 error reductions) are reported against held-out test sets and are therefore independent of the definitional steps. This is the normal case of a self-contained empirical architecture paper.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The approach rests on the domain assumption that neural operators can learn transformed versions of PDE solution operators and that adaptive input-dependent reshaping is feasible without introducing instability.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Neural operators can approximate families of solution operators when inputs are transformed into aligned forms.
    Invoked in the motivation for adaptive transformation to enable joint modeling.
invented entities (1)
  • parallel streams with Sinkhorn-projected doubly stochastic matrices no independent evidence
    purpose: To expand, aggregate, and mix hidden representations for adaptive operator reshaping.
    New architectural component introduced to implement the transformation.

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