Hypernetwork-Conditioned WENO5 Conservative-Form CNNs for One-Dimensional Conservation Laws

TL;DR

This paper introduces a hypernetwork-conditioned CNN that emulates WENO5 schemes for 1D conservation laws, enabling adaptive, high-order, conservative discretizations that generalize across resolutions and initial conditions.

Contribution

The authors develop a hypernetwork-based CNN that predicts WENO weights and fluxes, maintaining conservation and adaptability without retraining across different problem settings.

Findings

Achieves accuracy comparable to classical WENO5.

Attains near machine-precision conservation on fine meshes.

Generalizes to unseen resolutions and initial conditions.

Abstract

We study a conservative data-driven discretization for one-dimensional hyperbolic conservation laws based on the classical fifth-order WENO finite-volume scheme and a hypernetwork architecture. In the proposed Hyper--WENO5 Conservative-Form Convolutional Neural Network (Hyper--CFCNN), a lightweight target network predicts the nonlinear WENO weights on each stencil, while a hypernetwork generates the target-network parameters from problem metadata, including the mesh spacing, mesh layout, and coarse descriptors of the initial condition. The construction preserves the standard polynomial reconstruction and conservative flux-difference update of WENO, which enables adaptation across problem instances and spatial resolutions without retraining. We also consider an unknown-flux variant, Hyper--CFCNN--F, in which a compact FluxNet is used in place of the analytical flux inside the numerical flux function while retaining a conservative update form. To improve long-time prediction quality, training uses a multi-step recurrent loss that penalizes error accumulation over successive time advances. Numerical experiments on one-dimensional test problems, including single- and multi-shock Burgers equations, the shallow-water system, and the Shu--Osher Euler example, show that Hyper--CFCNN attains accuracy comparable to classical WENO5, achieves near machine-precision conservation in the known-flux setting on fine meshes, and generalizes to unseen spatial resolutions and initial conditions without retraining. The flux-learning variant remains stable on meshes outside the training set and exhibits bounded conservation drift. These results show that hypernetwork-conditioned conservative WENO discretizations provide an effective framework for adaptive high-order learning of nonlinear conservation laws with either known or unknown fluxes.