Deep backward schemes for high-dimensional nonlinear PDEs

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DOI10.1090/MCOM/3514zbMATH Open1440.60063arXiv1902.01599OpenAlexW2993551995WikidataQ114094322 ScholiaQ114094322MaRDI QIDQ4960067FDOQ4960067

Xavier Warin, Côme Huré, Huyên Pham

Publication date: 8 April 2020

Published in: Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 simultaneously the solution and its gradient by deep neural networks. These approximations are performed at each time step from the minimization of loss functions defined recursively by backward induction. The methodology is extended to variational inequalities arising in optimal stopping problems. We analyze the convergence of the deep learning schemes and provide error estimates in terms of the universal approximation of neural networks. Numerical results show that our algorithms give very good results till dimension 50 (and certainly above), for both PDEs and variational inequalities problems. For the PDEs resolution, our results are very similar to those obtained by the recent method in cite{weinan2017deep} when the latter converges to the right solution or does not diverge. Numerical tests indicate that the proposed methods are not stuck in poor local minimaas it can be the case with the algorithm designed in cite{weinan2017deep}, and no divergence is experienced. The only limitation seems to be due to the inability of the considered deep neural networks to represent a solution with a too complex structure in high dimension.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01599




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