arXiv Machine Learning

The limits of exactness: On the failure of automatic differentiation in physics-informed machine learning

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2

Rigorous Error Certification for Neural PDE Solvers: From Empirical Residuals to Solution Guarantees

The paper presents a theoretical framework for certifying the accuracy of physics‑informed neural networks (PINNs) used to solve partial differential equations. It derives generalization bounds that link the residual loss minimized during training to the actual error in the solution space, showing that if the neural approximation stays within a compact subset, a vanishing residual guarantees convergence to the true solution. Deterministic and probabilistic convergence results are provided, offering explicit error guarantees based on residual, boundary, and initial condition errors.

By Amartya Mukherjee, Maxwell Fitzsimmons, David C. Del Rey Fern\'andez, Jun Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25

A Zeroth-Order Deep Learning Method for Fully Nonlinear Parabolic Partial Differential Equations with Unknown Coefficients

arXiv:2606. 24999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) with unknown coefficients arise widely in scientific machine learning, including continuous-time reinforcement learning, yet solving them efficiently in a data-driven way remains challenging.

By Yanwei Jia, Du Ouyang, Huy\^en Pham, Xun Yu Zhou