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A hybrid finite element/neural network solver and its application to the Poisson problem

Numerical Analysis 2023-10-18 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We analyze a hybrid method that enriches coarse grid finite element solutions with fine scale fluctuations obtained from a neural network. The idea stems from the Deep Neural Network Multigrid Solver (DNN-MG), (Margenberg et al., J Comput Phys 460:110983, 2022; A neural network multigrid solver for the Navier-Stokes equations) which embeds a neural network into a multigrid hierarchy by solving coarse grid levels directly and predicting the corrections on fine grid levels locally (e.g. on small patches that consist of several cells) by a neural network. Such local designs are quite appealing, as they allow a very good generalizability. In this work, we formalize the method and describe main components of the a-priori error analysis. Moreover, we numerically investigate how the size of training set affects the solution quality.

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@article{arxiv.2307.00947,
  title  = {A hybrid finite element/neural network solver and its application to the Poisson problem},
  author = {Uladzislau Kapustsin and Utku Kaya and Thomas Richter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.00947},
  year   = {2023}
}
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