Multi-resolution enhancement for full-spectrum neural representations

Scientific data acquisition continues to outpace storage and analysis capabilities, making voxel-based representations increasingly intractable. Implicit neural representations (INRs) offer a promising solution by encoding signals through coordinate-based neural networks, serving as surrogates of data, with computational and storage requirements scaling with network complexity rather than data dimensionality. However, smaller INRs struggle to faithfully represent multiscale structures, high-frequency information and fine textures that constitute a large proportion of scientific measurements. We propose WIEN-INR, a theoretically guided hierarchical INR framework that distributes modelling across resolution scales and enables improved representation capacity through a novel enhancement network to recover subtle details. This multiscale architecture allows smaller networks to retain the full spatial-frequency content of the signal as well as preserve training efficiency and lower storage cost. Evaluated on distinct raw experimental measurements across scales and complexities, WIEN-INR represents a practical step towards a broader adoption of neural representations in scientific workflows, delivering compact, robust and high-fidelity representations. Ni et al. present WIEN-INR, an implicit neural representation for scientific data compression. It operates in the multiscale wavelet domain to improve compression as well as preserve fine details and signal fidelity.

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Nature Machine Intelligence
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2026-08-24
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-026-01287-9
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2
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Neural Networks and Applications
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Multi-resolution enhancement for full-spectrum neural representations

Cheng Peng, Yuan Ni, Joshua J. Turner, Zhantao Chen et al.
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Neural Networks and Applications
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Multi-resolution enhancement for full-spectrum neural representations

Cheng Peng, Yuan Ni, Joshua J. Turner, Zhantao Chen, Chun Hong Yoon, Rajan Plumley, Jana Thayer
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Abstract

Scientific data acquisition continues to outpace storage and analysis capabilities, making voxel-based representations increasingly intractable. Implicit neural representations (INRs) offer a promising solution by encoding signals through coordinate-based neural networks, serving as surrogates of data, with computational and storage requirements scaling with network complexity rather than data dimensionality. However, smaller INRs struggle to faithfully represent multiscale structures, high-frequency information and fine textures that constitute a large proportion of scientific measurements. We propose WIEN-INR, a theoretically guided hierarchical INR framework that distributes modelling across resolution scales and enables improved representation capacity through a novel enhancement network to recover subtle details. This multiscale architecture allows smaller networks to retain the full spatial-frequency content of the signal as well as preserve training efficiency and lower storage cost. Evaluated on distinct raw experimental measurements across scales and complexities, WIEN-INR represents a practical step towards a broader adoption of neural representations in scientific workflows, delivering compact, robust and high-fidelity representations. Ni et al. present WIEN-INR, an implicit neural representation for scientific data compression. It operates in the multiscale wavelet domain to improve compression as well as preserve fine details and signal fidelity.

Nature Machine Intelligence
Cardiovascular Institute of the South (US), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US), Environmental and Water Resources Engineering (IL), Linac Coherent Light Source (US), Walker (United States) (US), Carnegie Mellon University (US), University of California, Davis (US), The University of Texas at Austin (US), Stanford University (US)
National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Openalex Percentile: Top 3%
Neural Networks and Applications
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