Attention mechanisms are powerful tools used in AI, and their potential for modeling complex physical systems is being explored in a new study.
A new neural operator architecture called Neural Interpretable PDEs (NIPS) enhances Nonlocal Attention Operators (NAO) for better predictive accuracy and computational efficiency in solving inverse PDE problems.
NIPS employs a linear attention mechanism and introduces a learnable kernel network for scalable learning, eliminating the need for large pairwise interactions and improving spatial interaction handling through Fourier transform.
Empirical evaluations show that NIPS outperforms NAO and other baselines on various benchmarks, marking a significant advancement in scalable, interpretable, and efficient physics learning.