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Variational Monte Carlo - Bridging Concepts of Machine Learning and High Dimensional Partial Differential Equations

Numerical Analysis 2020-01-07 v1

Abstract

A statistical learning approach for parametric PDEs related to Uncertainty Quantification is derived. The method is based on the minimization of an empirical risk on a selected model class and it is shown to be applicable to a broad range of problems. A general unified convergence analysis is derived, which takes into account the approximation and the statistical errors. By this, a combination of theoretical results from numerical analysis and statistics is obtained. Numerical experiments illustrate the performance of the method with the model class of hierarchical tensors.

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@article{arxiv.1810.01348,
  title  = {Variational Monte Carlo - Bridging Concepts of Machine Learning and High Dimensional Partial Differential Equations},
  author = {Martin Eigel and Reinhold Schneider and Philipp Trunschke and Sebastian Wolf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.01348},
  year   = {2020}
}