When do extended physics-informed neural networks (XPINNs) improve generalization?

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DOI10.1137/21M1447039zbMATH Open1498.65183arXiv2109.09444MaRDI QIDQ5043367FDOQ5043367


Authors: Zheyuan Hu, Ameya D. Jagtap, Kenji Kawaguchi, George Em Karniadakis Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 21 October 2022

Published in: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have become a popular choice for solving high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) due to their excellent approximation power and generalization ability. Recently, Extended PINNs (XPINNs) based on domain decomposition methods have attracted considerable attention due to their effectiveness in modeling multiscale and multiphysics problems and their parallelization. However, theoretical understanding on their convergence and generalization properties remains unexplored. In this study, we take an initial step towards understanding how and when XPINNs outperform PINNs. Specifically, for general multi-layer PINNs and XPINNs, we first provide a prior generalization bound via the complexity of the target functions in the PDE problem, and a posterior generalization bound via the posterior matrix norms of the networks after optimization. Moreover, based on our bounds, we analyze the conditions under which XPINNs improve generalization. Concretely, our theory shows that the key building block of XPINN, namely the domain decomposition, introduces a tradeoff for generalization. On the one hand, XPINNs decompose the complex PDE solution into several simple parts, which decreases the complexity needed to learn each part and boosts generalization. On the other hand, decomposition leads to less training data being available in each subdomain, and hence such model is typically prone to overfitting and may become less generalizable. Empirically, we choose five PDEs to show when XPINNs perform better than, similar to, or worse than PINNs, hence demonstrating and justifying our new theory.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09444




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