scholarly journals Solving high-dimensional partial differential equations using deep learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (34) ◽  
pp. 8505-8510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiequn Han ◽  
Arnulf Jentzen ◽  
Weinan E
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Partial Differential Equations ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Difficult Problem ◽  
High Dimensional ◽  
Parabolic Pdes ◽  
Partial Differential ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Hamilton Jacobi Bellman

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 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 interrelationships.

An acceleration scheme for deep learning-based BSDE solver using weak expansions

2020 ◽  
Vol 07 (02) ◽  
pp. 2050012
Author(s):  
Riu Naito ◽  
Toshihiro Yamada
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Partial Differential Equations ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Backward Stochastic Differential Equation ◽  
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations ◽  
High Dimensional ◽  
Parabolic Partial Differential Equations ◽  
Weak Approximation ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
Partial Differential

This paper gives an acceleration scheme for deep backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) solver, a deep learning method for solving BSDEs introduced in Weinan et al. [Weinan, E, J Han and A Jentzen (2017). Deep learning-based numerical methods for high-dimensional parabolic partial differential equations and backward stochastic differential equations, Communications in Mathematics and Statistics, 5(4), 349–380]. The solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations are quickly estimated using technique of weak approximation even if the dimension is high. In particular, the loss function and the relative error for the target solution become sufficiently small through a smaller number of iteration steps in the new deep BSDE solver.

scholarly journals A Deep Neural Network Algorithm for Semilinear Elliptic PDEs with Applications in Insurance Mathematics

Risks ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Stefan Kremsner ◽  
Alexander Steinicke ◽  
Michaela Szölgyenyi
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Partial Differential Equations ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Risk Measure ◽  
Elliptic Partial Differential Equations ◽  
High Dimensional ◽  
Control Problems ◽  
Partial Differential ◽  
Neural Network Algorithm

In insurance mathematics, optimal control problems over an infinite time horizon arise when computing risk measures. An example of such a risk measure is the expected discounted future dividend payments. In models which take multiple economic factors into account, this problem is high-dimensional. The solutions to such control problems correspond to solutions of deterministic semilinear (degenerate) elliptic partial differential equations. In the present paper we propose a novel deep neural network algorithm for solving such partial differential equations in high dimensions in order to be able to compute the proposed risk measure in a complex high-dimensional economic environment. The method is based on the correspondence of elliptic partial differential equations to backward stochastic differential equations with unbounded random terminal time. In particular, backward stochastic differential equations—which can be identified with solutions of elliptic partial differential equations—are approximated by means of deep neural networks.

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