Hierarchical Implicit Neural Emulators
About
Neural PDE solvers offer a powerful tool for modeling complex dynamical systems, but often struggle with error accumulation over long time horizons and maintaining stability and physical consistency. We introduce a multiscale implicit neural emulator that enhances long-term prediction accuracy by conditioning on a hierarchy of lower-dimensional future state representations. Drawing inspiration from the stability properties of numerical implicit time-stepping methods, our approach leverages predictions several steps ahead in time at increasing compression rates for next-timestep refinements. By actively adjusting the temporal downsampling ratios, our design enables the model to capture dynamics across multiple granularities and enforce long-range temporal coherence. Experiments on turbulent fluid dynamics show that our method achieves high short-term accuracy and produces long-term stable forecasts, significantly outperforming autoregressive baselines while adding minimal computational overhead.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autoregressive Rollout Forecasting | L96 (test) | RMSE0.0712 | 15 | |
| Long-horizon forecasting | KS (test) | ∆RMSE (%)34.7 | 3 | |
| Long-horizon forecasting | L96 (test) | Delta RMSE (%)-5.6 | 3 |