Physics-Informed Learning of Probabilistic Gegenbauer Reconstruction for Transport-Dominated Problems

Abstract

Transport-dominated problems remain challenging for data-driven methods, which often exhibit severe numerical oscillations near shocks or steep gradients due to globally supported basis functions or overly smooth hypothesis spaces. Gegenbauer reconstruction has shown promise in mitigating such oscillations, but its effectiveness critically depends on the reconstruction parameters, particularly the weight parameter $\lambda$ and truncation order $m$. For data-driven models, variations in governing problems, training data, and model architectures make systematic parameter selection particularly challenging. To address this issue, we propose a physics-informed machine-learning framework that predicts probability distributions over candidate Gegenbauer parameter pairs, enabling probabilistically weighted reconstruction while accounting for parameter uncertainty. A two-stage strategy is adopted, in which a general predictor is first pre-trained and then fine-tuned for target problems to balance accuracy and computational cost. The framework is evaluated for reduced-order and neural operator models, represented by POD-Galerkin and DeepONet, respectively. Numerical experiments on one- and two-dimensional transport-dominated problems show that the framework learns effective spatially adaptive parameter distributions. Compared with conventional reconstruction strategies, it reduces numerical errors by up to one to two orders of magnitude and achieves a more favorable accuracy--cost trade-off than problem-specific model retraining.