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Neural Pushforward Samplers for the Fokker-Planck Equation on Embedded Riemannian Manifolds

Numerical Analysis 2026-03-19 v2 Machine Learning Numerical Analysis

Abstract

In this paper, we extend the Weak Adversarial Neural Pushforward Method to the Fokker--Planck equation on compact embedded Riemannian manifolds. The method represents the solution as a probability distribution via a neural pushforward map that is constrained to the manifold by a retraction layer, enforcing manifold membership and probability conservation by construction. Training is guided by a weak adversarial objective using ambient plane-wave test functions, whose intrinsic differential operators are derived in closed form from the geometry of the embedding, yielding a fully mesh-free and chart-free algorithm. Both steady-state and time-dependent formulations are developed, and numerical results on a double-well problem on the two-sphere demonstrate the capability of the method in capturing multimodal invariant distributions on curved spaces.

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@article{arxiv.2603.16239,
  title  = {Neural Pushforward Samplers for the Fokker-Planck Equation on Embedded Riemannian Manifolds},
  author = {Andrew Qing He and Wei Cai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.16239},
  year   = {2026}
}

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13 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, 1 algorithm