From Monte Carlo to neural networks approximations of boundary value problems
Iulian Cîmpean
University of Bucharest & Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Abstract:
We present probabilistic and neural network approximations for solutions to
Poisson equation subject to Holder continuous Dirichlet boundary conditions
in general bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Our main results are two-folded:
On the one hand we show that the solution to Poisson equation can be numerically
approximated in the sup-norm by Monte Carlo methods, without the curse of high
dimensions and efficiently with respect to the prescribed approximation error.
On the other hand, we show that the obtained Monte Carlo solver renders a random
ReLU deep neural network (DNN) that provides with high probability a small
approximation error and low polynomial complexity in the dimension.
This is joint work with L. Beznea, O. Lupaşcu, I. Popescu, and A. D. Zărnescu.