Numerical results demonstrate the efficacy of ICON in solving various types of differential equation problems and generalizing to operators beyond the training distribution and has implications for artificial general intelligence in physical systems.
Significance This paper presents In-Context Operator Networks (ICON), a neural network approach that can learn new operators from prompted data during the inference stage without requiring any weight updates. Unlike existing methods that are limited to approximating specific equation solutions or operators and necessitate retraining for new problems, ICON trains a single neural network as an operator learner, eliminating the need for retraining or fine-tuning when encountering different problems. Numerical results demonstrate the efficacy of ICON in solving various types of differential equation problems and generalizing to operators beyond the training distribution. The proposed approach draws inspiration from successful in-context learning techniques used in natural language processing and has implications for artificial general intelligence in physical systems.
S. Osher
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