Hybrid Iterative Neural Low-Regularity Integrator for Nonlinear Dispersive Equations
For computational scientists solving nonlinear dispersive PDEs with rough data, HIN-LRI offers a stable, accurate hybrid solver that outperforms existing analytical and neural methods.
HIN-LRI hybridizes a classical low-regularity integrator with a neural operator to correct truncation error for nonlinear dispersive PDEs, achieving improved accuracy over analytical and neural baselines with stable spatial refinement and out-of-distribution transfer.
We propose HIN-LRI, a hybrid framework that augments a classical numerical solver with a neural operator trained to correct the solver's structured truncation error. A base low-regularity integrator provides a consistent first-order approximation to nonlinear dispersive PDEs, while a lightweight neural network, operating on a low-dimensional latent manifold, learns the residual defect that analytical methods cannot close. An explicit time-step scaling on the neural correction ensures that its Lipschitz contribution remains $\mathcal{O}(τ)$, yielding a Gronwall stability factor bounded uniformly in the step size and independent of the spatial resolution. The network is trained end-to-end through a solver-in-the-loop objective that unrolls the full iteration and penalises trajectory error in a Bourgain-type norm, aligning learning with multi-step solver dynamics rather than isolated one-step targets. Under stated assumptions, the global error satisfies $C(\varepsilon_{net}+δ)\,τ^γ\ln(1/τ)$, where $\varepsilon_{net}$ measures the network approximation quality and $δ$ the training shortfall. Experiments on three dispersive benchmarks with rough data show that HIN-LRI improves accuracy over analytical integrators, splitting methods, and neural PDE surrogates, with stable spatial refinement, effective out-of-distribution transfer, and modest online overhead.