Solving high-dimensional partial differential equations using deep learning

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DOI10.1073/PNAS.1718942115zbMATH Open1416.35137arXiv1707.02568OpenAlexW2803629276WikidataQ64123028 ScholiaQ64123028MaRDI QIDQ4967451FDOQ4967451


Authors: Jiequn Han, Arnulf Jentzen, Weinan E Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 3 July 2019

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Developing algorithms for solving high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) has been an exceedingly difficult task for a long time, due to the notoriously difficult problem known as the "curse of dimensionality". This paper introduces a deep learning-based approach that can handle general high-dimensional parabolic PDEs. To this end, the PDEs are reformulated using backward stochastic differential equations and the gradient of the unknown solution is approximated by neural networks, very much in the spirit of deep reinforcement learning with the gradient acting as the policy function. Numerical results on examples including the nonlinear Black-Scholes equation, the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, and the Allen-Cahn equation suggest that the proposed algorithm is quite effective in high dimensions, in terms of both accuracy and cost. This opens up new possibilities in economics, finance, operational research, and physics, by considering all participating agents, assets, resources, or particles together at the same time, instead of making ad hoc assumptions on their inter-relationships.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.02568




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