Neural Operators as Efficient Function Interpolators
Neural operators (NOs) are designed to learn maps between infinite-dimensional function spaces. We propose a novel reframing of their use. By introducing an auxiliary base-space, any finite-dimensional function can be viewed as an operator acting by composition on functions of the base-space. Through a range of benchmarks on analytic functions of increasing complexity and dimensionality, we demonstrate that NOs can match or outperform standard multilayer perceptrons and Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks in accuracy while requiring significantly fewer parameters and training time. As a real-world application, we apply a two-dimensional Tensorized Fourier Neural Operator (TFNO) to the nuclear cha...
| Authors | Vasilis Niarchos, Angelos Sirbu, Sokratis Trifinopoulos |
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| Primary category | cs.LG |
| Published | 8 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 8 May 2026 |
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