arXiv Machine Learning

Taming the Loss Landscape of PINNs with Noisy Feynman-Kac Supervision: Operator Preconditioning and Non-Asymptotic Error Bounds

arXiv:2606. 00643v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) often train slowly or fail to converge on challenging partial differential equations (PDEs), a behavior recently linked to severely ill-conditioned loss landscapes inherited from the underlying differential operator.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 22

Boundary-Adapted PINNs for Elliptic Dirichlet Problems: $H^2(\Omega)$ A Priori Error Bounds with Application to Mean Escape Time Computation

arXiv:2607. 19167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motivated by the numerical computation of the Mean Escape Time (MET) $\tau:\Omega\to\mathbb{R}$ of a stochastic process from a bounded domain $\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^d$, we study elliptic Dirichlet boundary value problems (BVPs) using boundary-enforced Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), in which the Dirichlet condition is imposed exactly by multiplying the network output with a predefined distance-to-boundary approximation $\rho$.

By Nathanael Tepakbong, Jun Fan, Xiang Zhou, Ding-Xuan Zhou
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4

Loss-Conditional PINNs for Parametric PDE Families

arXiv:2606. 04420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) approximate solutions of ODEs and PDEs by minimising a weighted combination of residual, boundary, initial, and data losses.

By Anna Lazareva, Alexander Tarakanov
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Learning Physics from an Imperfect Ancestor

arXiv:2609.24947v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural operators evaluate parametric partial differential equations cheaply but degrade sharply outside their training distribution. Physics-informed n...

By S. Mohammad Mousavi, Teeratorn Kadeethum, Nikolaos Bouklas, Somdatta Goswami
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 AI
Jun 26

Error-Conditioned Neural Solvers

arXiv:2606. 27354v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural surrogate models offer fast approximate mappings from PDE parameters to solutions, but they typically treat solving as a purely statistical task: once trained, they struggle to correct their own constraint violations and extrapolate beyond the training distribution.

By Haina Jiang, Liam Wang, Peng-Chen Chen, Min Seop Kwak, Seungryong Kim, Brian Bell, Jeong Joon Park
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
arXiv Statistics ML
Sep 14

PDE-constrained inverse problems at the $\sqrt{n}$ rate via debiased physics-informed neural networks

The paper introduces a two‑step debiased estimation method for PDE‑constrained inverse problems where the PDE solution is approximated by Physics‑Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). By combining neural‑network‑based nonparametric estimation with an influence‑function bias correction, the authors achieve a √{n}-consistent, asymptotically normal estimator without undersmoothing the neural network. The approach is extended to Bayesian inference, yielding a posterior that contracts at the √{n}-rate with asymptotic covariance matching the frequentist estimator, and the analysis also provides near‑minimax rates for estimating nonparametric regression functions and their derivatives in Sobolev spaces.

By Yves Atchade, Debarghya Mukherjee
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

Random test functions, $H^{-1}$ norm equivalence, and stochastic variational physics-informed neural networks

arXiv:2605. 03542v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The dual norm characterisation of weak solutions of second-order linear elliptic partial differential equations is mathematically natural but computationally intractable: evaluating the $H^{-1}$ norm of the residual requires a supremum over an infinite-dimensional test space.

By Diego Marcondes