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The physics solvers employed for neural network training are primarily iterative, and hence, differentiating through them introduces a severe computational burden as iterations grow large. Inspired by works in bilevel optimization, we show…

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Poisson's equation plays an important role in modeling many physical systems. In electrostatic self-consistent low-temperature plasma (LTP) simulations, Poisson's equation is solved at each simulation time step, which can amount to a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 Ihda Chaerony Siffa , Markus M. Becker , Klaus-Dieter Weltmann , Jan Trieschmann

In scenarios with limited available data, training the function-to-function neural PDE solver in an unsupervised manner is essential. However, the efficiency and accuracy of existing methods are constrained by the properties of numerical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Rui Zhang , Qi Meng , Rongchan Zhu , Yue Wang , Wenlei Shi , Shihua Zhang , Zhi-Ming Ma , Tie-Yan Liu

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are widely used across the physical and computational sciences. Decades of research and engineering went into designing fast iterative solution methods. Existing solvers are general purpose, but may be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Jun-Ting Hsieh , Shengjia Zhao , Stephan Eismann , Lucia Mirabella , Stefano Ermon

A solver for the Poisson equation for 1D, 2D and 3D regular grids is presented. The solver applies the convolution theorem in order to efficiently solve the Poisson equation in spectral space over a rectangular computational domain.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Joseph Saverin

Deep learning has emerged as a transformative tool for the neural surrogate modeling of partial differential equations (PDEs), known as neural PDE solvers. However, scaling these solvers to industrial-scale geometries with over $10^8$ cells…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Hang Zhou , Haixu Wu , Haonan Shangguan , Yuezhou Ma , Huikun Weng , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

The numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) is difficult, having led to a century of research so far. Recently, there have been pushes to build neural--numerical hybrid solvers, which piggy-backs the modern trend towards…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Johannes Brandstetter , Daniel Worrall , Max Welling

Recent advances in deep learning have allowed neural networks (NNs) to successfully replace traditional numerical solvers in many applications, thus enabling impressive computing gains. One such application is time domain simulation, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Samuel Chevalier , Jochen Stiasny , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

Simulating the dynamic characteristics of a PN junction at the microscopic level requires solving the Poisson's equation at every time step. Solving at every time step is a necessary but time-consuming process when using the traditional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-26 Zhongyang Zhang , Ling Zhang , Ze Sun , Nicholas Erickson , Ryan From , Jun Fan

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) is the canonical approach for understanding the behavior of physical systems. However, large scale solutions of PDEs using state of the art discretization techniques remains an expensive…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Xiaoxuan Zhang , Krishna Garikipati

The traditional limitations of neural networks in reliably generalizing beyond the convex hulls of their training data present a significant problem for computational physics, in which one often wishes to solve PDEs in regimes far beyond…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jonathan Gorard , Ammar Hakim , James Juno

Efficient and stable solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) is central to scientific and engineering applications, yet existing numerical solvers rely heavily on matrix based discretizations, while learning based methods require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yi Bing , Zheng Ran , Fu Jinyang , Liu Long , Peng Xiang

We propose Neural Walk-on-Spheres (NWoS), a novel neural PDE solver for the efficient solution of high-dimensional Poisson equations. Leveraging stochastic representations and Walk-on-Spheres methods, we develop novel losses for neural…

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In this paper, a deep learning method for solving an improved one-dimensional Poisson-Nernst-Planck ion channel (PNPic) model, called the PNPic deep learning solver, is presented. In particular, it combines a novel local neural network…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Hwi Lee , Zhen Chao , Harris Cobb , Yingjie Liu , Dexuan Xie

The Poisson equation is critical to get a self-consistent solution in plasma fluid simulations used for Hall effect thrusters and streamer discharges, since the Poisson solution appears as a source term of the unsteady nonlinear flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Lionel Cheng , Ekhi Ajuria Illarramendi , Guillaume Bogopolsky , Michael Bauerheim , Benedicte Cuenot

Neural networks have promise as surrogate partial differential equation (PDE) solvers, but it remains a challenge to use these concepts to solve problems with high accuracy and scalability. In this work, we show that neural network…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Chenkai Mao , Jonathan A. Fan

Neural PDE solvers are often described as learning solution operators that map problem data to PDE solutions. In this work, we argue that this interpretation is generally incorrect when boundary conditions vary. We show that standard neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Lennon J. Shikhman

Iterative solvers are widely used to accurately simulate physical systems. These solvers require initial guesses to generate a sequence of improving approximate solutions. In this contribution, we introduce a novel method to accelerate…

In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm called Neuron-wise Parallel Subspace Correction Method (NPSC) for the finite neuron method that approximates numerical solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs) using neural network…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Jongho Park , Jinchao Xu , Xiaofeng Xu

Self-consistent multi-particle simulation plays an important role in studying beam-beam effects and space charge effects in high-intensity beams. The Poisson equation has to be solved at each time-step based on the particle density…

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