Small Models, Strong Priors: Architectural Inductive Bias for Parameter-Efficient Neural PDE Solvers 文章

arXiv:2605.25949v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural PDE solvers have followed the scaling trajectory of vision and language, with recent foundation models reaching billions of parameters. We argue that scale is a poor substitute for architectural inductive bias in this domain: structured priors deliver outsized parameter efficiency, and the pattern of where they succeed and fail is itself informative about what they capture. We instantiate this argument in WaveLiT, an architecture combining a discrete wavelet transform for lossless multi-resolution tokenization, an augmented linear attention block, a shared-weight multiscale feature pyramid, and a wavelet-domain auxiliary loss. Bespoke 1-10M-parameter WaveLiT models compete with foundation models of 100-1000$\times$ their size across eight TheWell benchmarks, with the largest gains on wave and acoustic-dominated benchmarks where the wavelet-multiscale prior fits the dominant dynamical structure and small per-step errors do not…

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