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We demonstrate the efficacy of HNO on several challenging benchmarks, including the heat and nonlinear Schr\u00f6dinger equations. Across these tasks, HNO consistently achieves significantly higher accuracy than leading baselines such as FNO, proper orthogonal decomposition-deep operator network, and latent spectral model. We further verify HNO\u2019s ability to learn a true operator through dedicated off-grid generalization tests. By making accurate inferences at arbitrary locations far beyond the training data support, HNO shows remarkable stability, an advantage absent in grid-dependent models. 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