learning operators between infinitely dimensional spaces is an important learning task arising in wide applications in machine learning, data science, mathematical modeling and simulations, etc. this talk introduces a new discretization-invariant operator learning approach based on data-driven kernels for sparsity via deep learning. compared to existing methods, our approach achieves attractive accuracy in solving forward and inverse problems, prediction problems, and signal processing problems with zero-shot generalization, i.e., networks trained with a fixed data structure can be applied to heterogeneous data structures without expensive re-training. under mild conditions, quantitative generalization error will be provided to understand discretization-invariant operator learning in the sense of non-parametric estimation.