Equidistribution of Solution Gradients in Physics-Informed Neural Networks via Coordinate Transformations

Equidistribution of Solution Gradients in Physics-Informed Neural Networks via Coordinate Transformations

Tianchi Yu and Ivan Oseledets propose Coordinate Transformation PINNs (CTPINNs) to address a difficulty they identify in Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs): approximating solutions with sharp gradients can be hard because of optimization difficulties and spectral bias. Their approach learns a coordinate transformation from the physical domain to a computational domain where, they say, the solution becomes approximately affine—varying in a simpler, near-linear way that neural networks can learn more easily. The authors describe two constructions: an explicit one based on Majorants and an implicit one based on invertable neural networks. In their experiments, the explicit construction can improve accuracy for PDEs with available explicit coordinate transformations. They also report that the implicit construction can be combined with other advanced PINN models as a plug-in module, improving performance across a range of challenging PDE benchmarks. The proposed mechanism is to redistribute solution gradients through coordinate transformations, reducing the functional complexity the network must learn. The abstract presents experimental results, but does not give benchmark-by-benchmark results or enough detail to assess the size and conditions of the reported improvements. The reported gains therefore concern the described PDE settings; their broader applicability is not clear

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attribution — pass: The draft correctly credits the proposal to Tianchi Yu and Ivan Oseledets. It keeps the method claims and experimental claims attributed to the authors with phrasing such as 'they say' and 'they report'.

Authors:Tianchi Yu, Ivan Oseledets

summary — uncertain: The summary follows the abstract faithfully, and 'affine' is explained. However, central terms remain opaque to a non-specialist reader. 'PDE' is never expanded (partial differential equation). The draft never says what a PINN is, for example a neural network trained to satisfy physics equations. 'Spectral bias' and 'Majorants' are also unexplained. Smallest repair: add brief plain-language glosses for PINN, PDE and spectral bias. Minor: the final sentence is missing its closing period.

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) often struggle to approximate solutions with sharp gradients due to optimization difficulties and spectral bias.

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[Submitted on 6 Nov 2026]

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which redistributes solution gradients to reduce functional complexity

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