In recent work it has been established that deep neural networks are capable of approximating solutions to a large class of parabolic partial differential equations without incurring the curse of dimension. However, all this work has been restricted to problems formulated on the whole Euclidean domain. On the other hand, most problems in engineering and the sciences are formulated on finite domains and subjected to boundary conditions. The present paper considers an important such model problem, namely the Poisson equation on a domain D ⊂ R d subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions. It is shown that deep neural networks are capable of representing solutions of that problem without incurring the curse of dimension. The proofs are based on a probabilistic representation of the solution to the Poisson equation as well as a suitable sampling method.
For Bayesian inverse problems with input-to-response maps given by wellposed partial differential equations and subject to uncertain parametric or function space input, we establish (under rather weak conditions on the 'forward', input-to-response maps) the parametric holomorphy of the data-to-QoI map relating observation data δ to the Bayesian estimate for an unknown quantity of interest (QoI). We prove exponential expression rate bounds for this data-to-QoI map by deep neural networks with rectified linear unit activation function, which are uniform with respect to the data δ taking values in a compact subset of R K . Similar convergence rates are verified for polynomial and rational approximations of the data-to-QoI map. We discuss the extension to other activation functions, and to mere Lipschitz continuity of the data-to-QoI map.
We propose and analyze several multilevel algorithms for the fast simulation of possibly nonstationary Gaussian random fields (GRFs) indexed, for example, by the closure of a bounded domain [Formula: see text] or, more generally, by a compact metric space [Formula: see text] such as a compact [Formula: see text]-manifold [Formula: see text]. A colored GRF [Formula: see text], admissible for our algorithms, solves the stochastic fractional-order equation [Formula: see text] for some [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is a linear, local, second-order elliptic self-adjoint differential operator in divergence form and [Formula: see text] is white noise on [Formula: see text]. We thus consider GRFs on [Formula: see text] with covariance operators of the form [Formula: see text]. The proposed algorithms numerically approximate samples of [Formula: see text] on nested sequences [Formula: see text] of regular, simplicial partitions [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], respectively. Work and memory to compute one approximate realization of the GRF [Formula: see text] on the triangulation [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] with consistency [Formula: see text], for some consistency order [Formula: see text], scale essentially linearly in [Formula: see text], independent of the possibly low regularity of the GRF. The algorithms are based on a sinc quadrature for an integral representation of (the application of) the negative fractional-order elliptic “coloring” operator [Formula: see text] to white noise [Formula: see text]. For the proposed numerical approximation, we prove bounds of the computational cost and the consistency error in various norms.
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