The Adaptive Vekua Cascade: A Differentiable Spectral-Analytic Solver for Physics-Informed Representation
About
Coordinate-based neural networks have emerged as a powerful tool for representing continuous physical fields, yet they face two fundamental pathologies: spectral bias, which hinders the learning of high-frequency dynamics, and the curse of dimensionality, which causes parameter explosion in discrete feature grids. We propose the Adaptive Vekua Cascade (AVC), a hybrid architecture that bridges deep learning and classical approximation theory. AVC decouples manifold learning from function approximation by using a deep network to learn a diffeomorphic warping of the physical domain, projecting complex spatiotemporal dynamics onto a latent manifold where the solution is represented by a basis of generalized analytic functions. Crucially, we replace the standard gradient-descent output layer with a differentiable linear solver, allowing the network to optimally resolve spectral coefficients in a closed form during the forward pass. We evaluate AVC on a suite of five rigorous physics benchmarks, including high-frequency Helmholtz wave propagation, sparse medical reconstruction, and unsteady 3D Navier-Stokes turbulence. Our results demonstrate that AVC achieves state-of-the-art accuracy while reducing parameter counts by orders of magnitude (e.g., 840 parameters vs. 4.2 million for 3D grids) and converging 2-3x faster than implicit neural representations. This work establishes a new paradigm for memory-efficient, spectrally accurate scientific machine learning. The code is available at https://github.com/VladimerKhasia/vecua.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1D Signal Reconstruction | Inverse Param 1D | MSE1.42e-4 | 4 | |
| 1D Signal Reconstruction | Noisy Chirp 1D | MSE0.0023 | 4 | |
| Implicit Representation Reconstruction | Sparse Seismic | MSE0.095 | 4 | |
| Implicit Representation Reconstruction | Curved Shock | MSE0.0102 | 4 | |
| Implicit Representation Reconstruction | Navier-Stokes 3D | MSE0.0016 | 4 | |
| Implicit Representation Reconstruction | Geometric SDF | MSE1.21e-4 | 4 | |
| Implicit Representation Reconstruction | Sparse Phantom | MSE0.031 | 4 | |
| Image interpolation | Sparse Phantom Shepp-Logan | MSE0.031 | 3 | |
| Inverse Parameter Estimation | Inverse Parameter Estimation | MSE9.00e-5 | 3 | |
| Physics-informed Signal Reconstruction | Noisy Helmholtz | MSE0.0157 | 3 |