arXiv · 2607.16238
Diffusion-corrected Autoregressive Fourier Neural Operator for Droplet Evolution Prediction
Abstract
Predicting droplet evolution in material jetting, or Inkjet Printing (IJP), is essential for maintaining printing quality. However, long-horizon forecasts remain challenging due to error accumulation and the complex coupling of process variables. In this work, we introduce the Diffusion-corrected Auto-Regressive Fourier Neural Operator (DiffARFNO), a two-stage framework that combines an autoregressive Fourier-MIONet with a conditional Denoising Diffusion Implicit Model (DDIM) corrector. Fourier-MIONet is trained as a coarse predictor and deployed autoregressively for long-horizon forecasting. In the second stage, a DDIM-based conditional corrector refines the coarse prediction within each sliding window through efficient iterative denoising. By combining coarse predictions from Fourier-MIONet with a DDIM corrector that restores fine details, DiffARFNO aims to provide high-fidelity predictions for long-horizon forecasts. Extensive experiments on droplet datasets from ANSYS Fluent demonstrate that DiffARFNO significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art models.
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Jinghao Cao, Minsung Kang, Hongyue Sun, Chi Zhou, Jihoon Chung, Xubo Yue, Sanchoy Das, Bo Shen. 2026-06-25. Diffusion-corrected Autoregressive Fourier Neural Operator for Droplet Evolution Prediction. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16238
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