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Jay Phil Yoo

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From Proxies to Fields: Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of Global Radiation from Sparse Sensor Sequences

Accurate reconstruction of latent environmental fields from sparse, indirect observations is a fundamental challenge across scientific domains, from atmospheric science and geophysics to public health and aerospace safety. Existing approaches typically rely on physics-based simulations or dense sensor networks; however, these methods are hampered by high computational cost, latency, and limited spatial coverage. Here we introduce the \textbf{Temporal Radiation Operator Network (TRON)}, a spatiotemporal neural operator architecture that infers continuous global scalar fields solely from sequences of sparse, non-uniform proxy measurements. Unlike recent prediction models that require dense, gridded inputs to predict system states, TRON tackles sparse-to-dense, cross-domain field reconstruction. It reconstructs the current global field in real time from sparse, temporally evolving sensor data, without access to any future observations or dense ground-truth fields. We demonstrate this approach on global cosmic radiation dose mapping: TRON, trained on daily reference fields spanning 2001 to 2023, generalizes across 65,341 spatial locations with input sequences ranging from 7 to 90 days. It achieves sub-second inference with relative $L_2$ errors below 0.1\%, representing over a 58,000$\times$ speedup compared to physics-based estimators. Although showcased in the radiation application, TRON provides a domain-agnostic framework for continuous field reconstruction from sparse data, with broad applications in atmospheric modeling, geophysical hazard monitoring, and real-time environmental risk prediction.

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Towards Data-Efficient Cross-Device Generalization of Grad-Shafranov Equilibria via Transfer Learning Neural Operator

Real-time reconstruction of magnetohydrodynamic equilibria is essential for plasma shaping, stability assessment and feedback control in magnetic confinement fusion. However, Grad-Shafranov equilibrium calculations remain largely device-specific and iterative, limiting their use in latency-constrained control settings. Existing neural approaches can accelerate individual equilibrium predictions, but they do not generally provide reusable models across changing plasma boundaries or tokamak geometries. Here we show that equilibrium reconstruction can be recast as a cross-device operator learning problem. We develop a domain-specific neural operator framework that maps geometry and profile parameters directly to the poloidal flux field, replacing repeated solve-on-demand computation with amortized operator inference. Using the analytically tractable Solov'ev family as a controlled Grad-Shafranov testbed, we generate equilibria across eight geometrically distinct tokamak-like configurations and benchmark five neural operator architectures under four transfer-learning strategies. Single-geometry pretraining gives poor transfer to unseen devices, whereas multi-geometry pretraining enables data-efficient adaptation. The Wavelet Neural Operator gives the strongest cross-geometry performance, reaching mean relative L2 errors below 4% with 100 labelled target equilibria and below 2% with full fine-tuning. The predicted magnetic fields satisfy the divergence-free constraint to numerical precision, and four architectures achieve millisecond or sub-millisecond inference. These results identify neural operator pretraining as a route towards reusable, real-time equilibrium inference across fusion device configurations.

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Sensing Without Colocation: Operator-Based Virtual Instrumentation for Domains Beyond Physical Reach

Classical sensing rests on one foundational assumption: the quantity of interest must be colocated with the measurement device. This is not an engineering convenience. It is the organizing principle of every instrumentation standard developed over the past century, and it fails completely at aviation altitude, where no physical sensor can survive long enough to monitor the cosmic radiation field that irradiates millions of aircrew annually. We establish that this barrier is resolved by a new sensing principle: when the sensor manifold and the target field manifold are physically disjoint, a learned operator bridging them \emph{is} the instrument. We term this \textbf{operator-theoretic virtual sensing} and instantiate it in \textbf{STONe}, which maps \textbf{twelve} ground-based neutron monitors (sparse, indirect, surface-bound) to the complete global dose field at 10{,}000\,m across \textbf{180-day} horizons, achieving sub-millisecond inference where Monte Carlo transport requires hours. Deployed without modification on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano embedded AI platform at 7.3\,W average system power and 143.3\,MB GPU memory footprint; within the envelope of photovoltaic-powered field hardware co-locatable with existing neutron monitor stations, STONe constitutes a physically realizable sensing device of a new category: an instrument whose measurement principle is operator-theoretic and whose deployment constraint is the power budget of remote environmental monitoring infrastructure, not the accessibility of the target domain.

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