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The solution to partial differential equations using deep learning approaches has shown promising results for several classes of initial and boundary-value problems. However, their ability to surpass, particularly in terms of accuracy,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Ziad Aldirany , Régis Cottereau , Marc Laforest , Serge Prudhomme

Over the past years, inverse problems in partial differential equations have garnered increasing interest among scientists and engineers. However, due to the lack of conventional stability, nonlinearity and non-convexity, these problems are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Feng Chen , Kegan Li , Yiran Meng , Zhiyi Xiao , Pengqi Wu

Diffuse domain methods (DDMs) have gained significant attention for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex geometries. These methods approximate the domain by replacing sharp boundaries with a diffuse layer of thickness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Toai Luong , Tadele Mengesha , Steven M. Wise , Ming Hei Wong

The problem of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) can be formulated into a least-squares minimization problem, where neural networks are used to parametrize PDE solutions. A global minimizer corresponds to a neural network that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Tao Luo , Haizhao Yang

Classical numerical methods solve partial differential equations (PDEs) efficiently on regular meshes, but many of them become unstable on irregular domains. In practice, multiphysics interactions such as diffusion, damage, and healing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yuelian Li , Andrew Rushing Hands

In this paper we use deep feedforward artificial neural networks to approximate solutions to partial differential equations in complex geometries. We show how to modify the backpropagation algorithm to compute the partial derivatives of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-28 Jens Berg , Kaj Nyström

In this paper, we propose DeepMartNet - a Martingale based deep neural network learning method for solving Dirichlet boundary value problems (BVPs) and eigenvalue problems for elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Wei Cai , Andrew He , Daniel Margolis

This paper focuses on the numerical solution of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with Dirichlet and mixed boundary conditions, specifically addressing the challenges arising from irregular domains. Both finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Clarissa Astuto , Daniele Boffi , Giovanni Russo , Umberto Zerbinati

This work proposes an $r$-adaptive finite element method (FEM) using neural networks (NNs). The method employs the Ritz energy functional as the loss function, currently limiting its applicability to symmetric and coercive problems, such as…

Machine learning methods have been lately used to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) and dynamical systems. These approaches have been developed into a novel research field known as scientific machine learning in which techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Junho Choi , Namjung Kim , Youngjoon Hong

The Poisson equation is commonly encountered in engineering, for instance in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) where it is needed to compute corrections to the pressure field to ensure the incompressibility of the velocity field. In the…

Deep learning models are often successfully trained using gradient descent, despite the worst case hardness of the underlying non-convex optimization problem. The key question is then under what conditions can one prove that optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Alon Brutzkus , Amir Globerson

Uncertainty quantification for partial differential equations is traditionally grounded in discretization theory, where solution error is controlled via mesh/grid refinement. Physics-informed neural networks fundamentally depart from this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Amartya Mukherjee , Maxwell Fitzsimmons , David C. Del Rey Fernández , Jun Liu

Methods for solving PDEs using neural networks have recently become a very important topic. We provide an a priori error analysis for such methods which is based on the $\mathcal{K}_1(\mathbb{D})$-norm of the solution. We show that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Qingguo Hong , Jonathan W. Siegel , Jinchao Xu

We propose new machine learning schemes for solving high dimensional nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Relying on the classical backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) representation of PDEs, our algorithms estimate…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Côme Huré , Huyên Pham , Xavier Warin

This paper establishes an approximation theorem for randomized neural networks (RaNNs) whose hidden-layer parameters are uniformly sampled from a prescribed bounded domain. Our analysis shows that, for RaNNs of the form $\mathop{\sum}_i W_i…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Ran Bi , Weibing Deng

Using deep neural networks to solve PDEs has attracted a lot of attentions recently. However, why the deep learning method works is falling far behind its empirical success. In this paper, we provide a rigorous numerical analysis on deep…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Chenguang Duan , Yuling Jiao , Yanming Lai , Xiliang Lu , Zhijian Yang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are efficient solvers for ill-posed problems and have been shown to outperform classical optimization techniques in several computational imaging problems. DNNs are trained by solving an optimization problem…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-14 Mo Deng , Alexandre Goy , Shuai Li , Kwabena Arthur , George Barbastathis

In this work, we propose data-integrated neural networks (DataInNet) for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), offering a novel approach to leveraging data (e.g., source terms, initial conditions, and boundary conditions). The core…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Jiachun Zheng , Yunqing Huang , Nianyu Yi , Yunlei Yang

The accurate numerical solution of partial differential equations is a central task in numerical analysis allowing to model a wide range of natural phenomena by employing specialized solvers depending on the scenario of application. Here,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Moritz Reh , Martin Gärttner