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Published as a conference paper at NeurIPS 2026

IADR: Interface-Augmented Neural Operator for Phase-Field Mean-Curvature Flow

Qinyi Zhang, Duanyu Feng, Yangshuai Wang, Hao Wang

Abstract

The Allen–Cahn equation is one of the standard phase-field models for mean-curvature flow (MCF), parameterised by the diffuse-interface width . Practical simulations span a working range of , so a single model covering this range is needed. PDE-specific neural operators are accurate but must be retrained at every ; general neural operators cover in one model but lose the phase-field structure of the target. We introduce Interface-Augmented Diffusion-Reaction (IADR), a neural operator that addresses both shortcomings: a target network with a diffusion-and-reaction structure preserves the phase-field structure of the Allen–Cahn equation, while a hypernetwork that maps to the weights of this target network amortises the dependence on across the working range. A single IADR matches the per- specialists on in-distribution data, retains their cross-shape generalisation under both - and geometry-out-of-distribution shifts, and runs at the per- specialist's per-step inference cost. We further establish a -step rollout error bound that aligns with the long-horizon behaviour observed in experiments.

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