arXiv:2607.19167math.NAcs.LG2026-07

提出一种自适应边界PINN,可精确求解椭圆型方程并保证高阶误差收敛。

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

论文配图:Boundary-Adapted PINNs for Elliptic Dirichlet Problems: $H^2(Ω)$ A Priori Error Bounds with Application to Mean Escape Time Computation
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  • 用距离边界函数乘网络输出,实现边界条件的精确强制
  • 证明仅精确边界不足够,需一阶归一化光滑距离函数才达$H^2$误差界
  • 适用于随机过程平均逃逸时间计算,对网络设计有指导意义

为数值计算随机过程在有界域Ω⊆ℝᵈ中的平均逃逸时间τ:Ω→ℝ,本文研究基于边界强化物理信息神经网络(PINNs)的椭圆型狄利克雷边值问题。通过将网络输出与预定义的距离到边界近似ρ相乘,精确施加狄利克雷条件。结合修正二次单元(ReQU)和双曲正切(tanh)网络的逼近理论与统计学习分析,推导出明确依赖于ρ的先验误差界。特别地,证明仅精确边界强制不足以获得$H^2(Ω)$误差界,充分且本质上必要条件是ρ为一阶归一化的光滑距离近似,此类构造见arXiv:2104.08426 [math.NA]。由此识别出这类“边界自适应”PINN为求解狄利克雷边值问题的合适神经网络形式。数值实验验证理论,表明恰当的ρ选择显著提升精度与收敛性,而劣质距离函数则严重降低解的质量。证明还给出了ReQU与tanh网络高阶导数假设空间的新VC维界,以及浅层ReQU网络在高阶Sobolev范数下的新逼近界,均具独立重要价值。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Motivated by the numerical computation of the Mean Escape Time (MET) $τ:Ω\to\mathbb{R}$ of a stochastic process from a bounded domain $Ω\subseteq\mathbb{R}^d$, 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 $ρ$. Combining approximation-theoretic and statistical-learning arguments for Rectified Quadratic Unit (ReQU) and hyperbolic tangent (tanh) networks, we derive a priori error bounds that make explicit the dependence on $ρ$. In particular, we show that exact boundary enforcement alone is not enough for $H^2(Ω)$ error bounds, and that a sufficient and essentially necessary condition is for $ρ$ to be a smooth distance approximation $\textit{normalized to first order}$, of the kind constructed in arXiv:2104.08426 [math.NA]. We thereby identify this subclass of $\textit{boundary-adapted}$ PINNs as the appropriate neural network ansatz for solving Dirichlet BVPs. Numerical experiments support the theory, showing that appropriate choices of $ρ$ improve accuracy and convergence, while poorly chosen distance functions can substantially degrade the solution. Our proof also yields new VC-dimension bounds for hypothesis spaces of higher-order derivatives of ReQU and tanh networks, together with new approximation bounds for shallow ReQU networks in higher-order Sobolev norms, all of which are of important independent interest.

PINN边界自适应椭圆方程误差分析

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