A deep backward regression-based scheme for high-dimensional nonlinear partial differential equations

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Main Authors: Han, Qiang, Ji, Shaolin, Li, Yunzhang
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author Han, Qiang
Ji, Shaolin
Li, Yunzhang
author_facet Han, Qiang
Ji, Shaolin
Li, Yunzhang
contents We propose a deep backward regression-based (DBR) scheme for solving high-dimensional nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations. Building on the DBDP method of Huré, Pham, and Warin~\cite{HCPHWX20}, the proposed method reformulates the local backward losses through conditional expectations and trains the resulting regression problems sequentially in time. This conditional-expectation formulation replaces pathwise Brownian fluctuations in the Euler residual by their averaged effect and therefore provides an intrinsic variance-reduction mechanism before loss evaluation. In practice, the conditional expectations are approximated by local multi-path Monte Carlo averages, which leads to smoother training targets and improved numerical stability. Numerical experiments show that DBR performs competitively on standard high-dimensional benchmarks and is more stable than DBDP1 on the challenging unbounded benchmark considered in Example~2. Under an idealized population-loss minimization setting, we provide an error analysis and establish a half-order convergence result under suitable approximation and integrability assumptions. We also discuss an extension to variational inequalities.
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spellingShingle A deep backward regression-based scheme for high-dimensional nonlinear partial differential equations
Han, Qiang
Ji, Shaolin
Li, Yunzhang
Numerical Analysis
60H35, 65C20, 65M12
We propose a deep backward regression-based (DBR) scheme for solving high-dimensional nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations. Building on the DBDP method of Huré, Pham, and Warin~\cite{HCPHWX20}, the proposed method reformulates the local backward losses through conditional expectations and trains the resulting regression problems sequentially in time. This conditional-expectation formulation replaces pathwise Brownian fluctuations in the Euler residual by their averaged effect and therefore provides an intrinsic variance-reduction mechanism before loss evaluation. In practice, the conditional expectations are approximated by local multi-path Monte Carlo averages, which leads to smoother training targets and improved numerical stability. Numerical experiments show that DBR performs competitively on standard high-dimensional benchmarks and is more stable than DBDP1 on the challenging unbounded benchmark considered in Example~2. Under an idealized population-loss minimization setting, we provide an error analysis and establish a half-order convergence result under suitable approximation and integrability assumptions. We also discuss an extension to variational inequalities.
title A deep backward regression-based scheme for high-dimensional nonlinear partial differential equations
topic Numerical Analysis
60H35, 65C20, 65M12
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14721