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High-quality ordinary differential equation (ODE) solver libraries have a long history, going back to the 1970s. Over the past several years we have implemented, on top of the PETSc linear and nonlinear solver package, a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-06 Shrirang Abhyankar , Jed Brown , Emil M. Constantinescu , Debojyoti Ghosh , Barry F. Smith , Hong Zhang

In this paper we establish a connection between non-convex optimization methods for training deep neural networks and nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Relaxation techniques arising in statistical physics which have already…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Pratik Chaudhari , Adam Oberman , Stanley Osher , Stefano Soatto , Guillaume Carlier

Constructing fast numerical solvers for partial differential equations (PDEs) is crucial for many scientific disciplines. A leading technique for solving large-scale PDEs is using multigrid methods. At the core of a multigrid solver is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Daniel Greenfeld , Meirav Galun , Ron Kimmel , Irad Yavneh , Ronen Basri

This paper is concerned with model order reduction of parametric Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) using tree-based library approximations. Classical approaches are formulated for PDEs on Hilbert spaces and involve one single linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Diane Guignard , Olga Mula

We propose a novel approach to solving input- and state-constrained parametric mixed-integer optimal control problems using Differentiable Predictive Control (DPC). Our approach follows the differentiable programming paradigm by learning an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Ján Boldocký , Shahriar Dadras Javan , Martin Gulan , Martin Mönnigmann , Ján Drgoňa

We present a novel method for using Neural Networks (NNs) for finding solutions to a class of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). Our method builds on recent advances in Neural Radiance Field research (NeRFs) and allows for a NN to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jaroslaw Rzepecki , Daniel Bates , Chris Doran

Model discrepancy, defined as the difference between model predictions and reality, is ubiquitous in computational models for physical systems. It is common to derive partial differential equations (PDEs) from first principles physics, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Joseph Hart , Bart van Bloemen Waanders

Spectral methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) and stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) often use Fourier or polynomial spectral expansions on either uniform and non-uniform grids. However, while very widely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Channa Hatharasinghe , Run Yan Teh , Jesse van Rhijn , Peter D. Drummond , Margaret D. Reid

I provide an introduction to the application of deep learning and neural networks for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). The approach, known as physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), involves minimizing the residual of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Hubert Baty

We introduce a novel spectral, finite-dimensional approximation of general Sobolev spaces in terms of Chebyshev polynomials. Based on this polynomial surrogate model (PSM), we realise a variational formulation, solving a vast class of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Juan-Esteban Suarez Cardona , Phil-Alexander Hofmann , Michael Hecht

Solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) is a cornerstone of engineering and scientific research. Traditional methods for PDE solving are cumbersome, relying on manual setup and domain expertise. While Physics-Informed Neural Network…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jianming Liu , Ren Zhu , Jian Xu , Kun Ding , Xu-Yao Zhang , Gaofeng Meng , Cheng-Lin Liu

The numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) is challenging because of the need to resolve spatiotemporal features over wide length and timescales. Often, it is computationally intractable to resolve the finest features…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-08-22 Yohai Bar-Sinai , Stephan Hoyer , Jason Hickey , Michael P. Brenner

We propose a neural network-based algorithm for solving forward and inverse problems for partial differential equations in unsupervised fashion. The solution is approximated by a deep neural network which is the minimizer of a cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Leah Bar , Nir Sochen

We propose, analyze, and test new robust iterative solvers for systems of linear algebraic equations arising from the space-time finite element discretization of reduced optimality systems defining the approximate solution of hyperbolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Ulrich Langer , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

We present a multidimensional deep learning implementation of a stochastic branching algorithm for the numerical solution of fully nonlinear PDEs. This approach is designed to tackle functional nonlinearities involving gradient terms of any…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Jiang Yu Nguwi , Guillaume Penent , Nicolas Privault

We present a hierarchical, control theory inspired method for variational inference (VI) for neural stochastic differential equations (SDEs). While VI for neural SDEs is a promising avenue for uncertainty-aware reasoning in time-series, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Rembert Daems , Manfred Opper , Guillaume Crevecoeur , Tolga Birdal

The numerical solution of large-scale PDEs, such as those occurring in data-driven applications, unavoidably require powerful parallel computers and tailored parallel algorithms to make the best possible use of them. In fact, considerations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Francisco Bernal , Gonçalo dos Reis , Greig Smith

This paper presents the Tensor Product Network (TPNet), a novel neural architecture for efficient and accurate function approximation and PDE solving. The core of the proposal involves constructing the solution explicitly as a linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Qihong Yang , Yangtao Deng , Qiaolin He , Shiquan Zhang

Partial differential equations with distributional sources---in particular, involving (derivatives of) delta distributions---have become increasingly ubiquitous in numerous areas of physics and applied mathematics. It is often of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Marius Oltean , Carlos F. Sopuerta , Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci

PyTorch has ascended as a premier machine learning framework, yet it lacks a native and comprehensive library for decision and control tasks suitable for large development teams dealing with complex real-world data and environments. To…