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The work shows the failures arise from four simultaneous factors: spectral bias, multi-term loss imbalance and loss-weight collapse, temporal causality violation, and insufficient collocation resolution. SPARC-Net jointly targets all four with an adaptive multi-scale spectral encoder, a gated residual backbone, adaptive activations, and a hard-constraint output ansatz enforcing initial and boundary conditions exactly. Training uses gradient-norm balancing, floored causality-aware residual weighting, and RAD adaptive collocation, delivering large error reductions versus vanilla PINNs across canonical benchmarks.","SPARC-Net: A Spectral, Causality-Aware, and Hard-Constrained Physics-Informed Architecture for Stiff and Shock-Dominated Partial Differential  \nEquations  \nDivyavardhan Singh Dept. of Electronics Engg.  \nSVNIT Surat, India [u23ec035@eced.svnit.ac.in](u23ec035@eced.svnit.ac.in)  \nDimple Sonone  \nDept. of Electronics Engg. SVNIT Surat, India [u24ec095@eced.svnit.ac.in](u24ec095@eced.svnit.ac.in)  \nHammad Mohammad  \nDept. of Electronics Engg. SVNIT Surat, India [u24ec101@eced.svnit.ac.in](u24ec101@eced.svnit.ac.in)  \nDr. Kishor Upla  \nDept. of Electronics Engg. SVNIT Surat, India [kpu@eced.svnit.ac.in](kpu@eced.svnit.ac.in)  \narXiv :2607 . 1 13 10v 1 [ cs .LG] 13 Jul 2026  \nAbstract—Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) provide a meshless approach for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), but they suffer from severe degradation in stiff and shock-dominated problems, where small PDE residuals can correspond to globally inaccurate solutions. We demonstrate that these failures do not stem from a single isolated cause, but rather from the concurrent interplay of (i) spectral bias against sharp features, (ii) imbalanced multi-term optimization and loss-weight collapse, (iii) violation of temporal causality, and (iv) under-resolved collocation. We present SPARC-Net, a unified architecture and training framework designed to jointly address all four pathologies. SPARC-Net leverages an adaptive multi-scale spectral encoder with a learnable spectral gate, a gated residual backbone, adaptive activations, and a hardconstraint output ansatz. This ansatz exactly enforces initial and boundary conditions, structurally eliminating the loss-weight collapse phenomenon.  \nFor training, the framework employs stabilized gradient-norm loss balancing, floored causality-respecting residual weighting, and residual-based adaptive collocation (RAD). Validated against exact analytic and high-order spectral reference solutions across four canonical benchmarks—viscous Burgers’, Allen–Cahn, convection (β = 30), and reaction—SPARC-Net yields substantial improvements. Compared to vanilla PINNs, SPARC-Net reduces the relative L2 error from 1.47×10−1 to 1. 14×10−1 on Burgers’(22% reduction), from 9.93 × 10 −1 to 5.78 × 10 −2 on Allen–Cahn (94% reduction), and from 9 .82×10−1 to 3 .54×10−3 on reaction (100% reduction). Furthermore, introducing a characteristiccoordinate encoder for hyperbolic transport reduces the convection error from 5.14 × 10 −1 to 9.88 × 10 −5 (100% reduction). We provide comprehensive evaluations, reporting five-seed mean ± standard deviation errors, Wilcoxon significance tests, full ablation studies, hyperparameter sensitivities, extensions to the 2D heat equation, and comparisons against parameter-matched baselines.  \nIndex Terms—Physics-informed neural networks, stiff partial differential equations, spectral bias, hard constraints, causal training, adaptive collocation, loss weighting.  \nI. INTRODUCTION  \nPHYSICS-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), proposed  \nby Raissi et al. [1], incorporate the governing equations  \nof a physical system into the training objective of a neural network using automatic differentiation. PINNs provide a flexible, mesh-free solver for both forward and inverse problems [2], [3] . Despite their general success, PINNs are notoriously difficult to train on stiff and shock-dominated PDEs, where solutions develop sharp gradients, thin interfaces, or fast-traveling fronts [4]–[6] . Notably, the physics-informed residual can often be minimized to near-zero values while therecovered solution remains globally inaccurate [4], [7] .  \nPast remedies have largely been studied in isolation: adaptive loss weighting to stabilize optimization [5], [8], [9]; adaptive collocation for resolution refinement [10], [11]; Fourierfeature encodings to mitigate spectral bias [12], [13]; and causal training to preserve temporal ordering [14] . 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