Papers › BENO: Boundary-embedded Neural Operators for Elliptic PDEs

BENO: Boundary-embedded Neural Operators for Elliptic PDEs

17 Jan 2024arXiv:2401.09323archive 2025-07-28

Haixin Wang, Jiaxin Li, Anubhav Dwivedi, Kentaro Hara, Tailin Wu

Elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) are a major class of time-independent PDEs that play a key role in many scientific and engineering domains such as fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and solid mechanics. Recently, neural operators have emerged as a promising technique to solve elliptic PDEs more efficiently by directly mapping the input to solutions. However, existing networks typically cannot handle complex geometries and inhomogeneous boundary values present in the real world. Here we introduce Boundary-Embedded Neural Operators (BENO), a novel neural operator architecture that embeds the complex geometries and inhomogeneous boundary values into the solving of elliptic PDEs. Inspired by classical Green's function, BENO consists of two branches of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for interior source term and boundary values, respectively. Furthermore, a Transformer encoder maps the global boundary geometry into a latent vector which influences each message passing layer of the GNNs. We test our model extensively in elliptic PDEs with various boundary conditions. We show that all existing baseline methods fail to learn the solution operator. In contrast, our model, endowed with boundary-embedded architecture, outperforms state-of-the-art neural operators and strong baselines by an average of 60.96\%. Our source code can be found https://github.com/AI4Science-WestlakeU/beno.git.

PaperPDFCodeCode Syntology ran

In Syntology Open this paper in Syntology's Atlas, the map of the papers in Syntology's graph and their citations.

For agents, Syntology's MCP tool lists every function and class Syntology harvested from this paper and whether it ran (how to connect): get_harvested_code_for_paper(arxiv_id="2401.09323")

Code

Syntology Ran 5 of 9 code samples harvested from 1 repository linked to this paper; 4 have no recorded run. Of those that ran: 1 ran · fixture could not drive it; 4 ran with no contract checked.

By repository: official repository: 9 samples from 1 repository, 5 ran. The run record, sample by sample. “Ran” means executed on a synthesized input, not that the code is correct or reproduces the paper.

ai4science-westlakeu/beno officialmentioned in papermentioned on GitHubpytorchMIT report

Repository list and official/mentioned flags are the archive's, frozen 2025-07-28. Reachability, where shown, is from one Syntology probe window (2026-09-16 to 2026-09-18); repositories not probed show nothing. GitHub stars are not tracked.

Code Syntology ran Syntology

9 samples harvested; 5 ran; 0 honoured the contract we drafted; 4 have no recorded run. Read from Syntology's graph 2026-09-24; that is when this build read the record, not when the samples ran.

1ran · fixture could not drive it
4ran
4unverified

Licence: 0 of the 9 samples are pointer only, meaning Syntology does not serve that copy's text. This page shows no code text for any sample; each one links to its file in the repository.

Harvested from ai4science-westlakeu/beno. “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized input. It does not mean the output is correct, and nothing here reproduces the paper's results. “Honoured” and “violated” refer to a contract Syntology drafted from the code itself; “our draft was wrong” and “fixture could not drive it” are failures of Syntology's instrument, not of the code.

Each sample ends with its code_sha256, Syntology's identity for that exact code. An agent fetches the stored sample with Syntology's MCP tool get_code(code_sha256="…") (how to connect); click an identity to copy that call.

Repository labels, per sample. official repository: The archive marks this repository official for the paper. named in the paper: The archive records that the paper mentions this repository; it is not marked official. community (archive-listed): In the archive's code links for this paper, not marked official and not recorded as mentioned in the paper. found in paper text by Syntology: Syntology found this repository in the paper's own text; whether it is the authors' implementation is not asserted. community: Not in the archive's code links for this paper; a community repository Syntology harvested. Samples from a repository marked official are listed first. Licence labels name the repository's licence as recorded at harvest. “Pointer only” means Syntology does not serve that copy's text, for one of four reasons: no licence file was found; the licence was not identified; the licence is recorded as permissive but that copy's record is not marked cleared; or the licence is outside the permissive list Syntology serves text under (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD and similar). Some licences outside that list permit redistribution, such as WTFPL, and GPL-3.0 under its conditions; they are simply not on the list. Hover a licence label for the reason. File links open the file on GitHub at the default branch, which may have changed since the harvest.

Decoder ai4science-westlakeu/beno/BE_MPNN.py official repository ran · metamorphic tier: invariant fingerprinted MIT (permissive) · bdd576900f6376a0 · report
Encoder ai4science-westlakeu/beno/BE_MPNN.py official repository ran · metamorphic tier: deterministic MIT (permissive) · 2af5dbe8b3fb3afc · report
build_mlp ai4science-westlakeu/beno/BE_MPNN.py official repository ran · fixture could not drive it MIT (permissive) · 75242456aca1ec7b · report
recursive_index AI4Science-WestlakeU/beno/util.py official repository ran MIT (permissive) · 9e275404aa5e3c6a · report
transform_dict AI4Science-WestlakeU/beno/util.py official repository ran MIT (permissive) · 398aeb54fbc373f8 · report
HeteroGNS ai4science-westlakeu/beno/BE_MPNN.py official repository unverified MIT (permissive) · 164fcc0810edef06 · report
InteractionNetwork ai4science-westlakeu/beno/BE_MPNN.py official repository unverified MIT (permissive) · c12241529df7714d · report
Processor ai4science-westlakeu/beno/BE_MPNN.py official repository unverified MIT (permissive) · fc9804a83b0f802c · report
plot_vectors AI4Science-WestlakeU/beno/util.py official repository unverified MIT (permissive) · c67b9864a21d4148 · report

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

No leaderboard rows for this paper in the archive.

Methods

Absolute Position EncodingsAdamAttentionBPEDense ConnectionsDropoutLabel SmoothingLayer NormalizationLinear LayerMulti-Head AttentionPosition-Wise Feed-Forward LayerResidual ConnectionSoftmaxTransformer

Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections