Generalization Bounds for Physics-Informed Neural Networks for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations

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Main Authors: Andre-Sloan, Sebastien, Kumar, Dibyakanti, Frangi, Alejandro F, Mukherjee, Anirbit
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Published: 2026
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author Andre-Sloan, Sebastien
Kumar, Dibyakanti
Frangi, Alejandro F
Mukherjee, Anirbit
author_facet Andre-Sloan, Sebastien
Kumar, Dibyakanti
Frangi, Alejandro F
Mukherjee, Anirbit
contents This work establishes rigorous first-of-its-kind upper bounds on the generalization error for the method of approximating solutions to the (d+1)-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations by training depth-2 neural networks trained via the unsupervised Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) framework. This is achieved by bounding the Rademacher complexity of the PINN risk. For appropriately weight bounded net classes our derived generalization bounds do not explicitly depend on the network width and our framework characterizes the generalization gap in terms of the fluid's kinematic viscosity and loss regularization parameters. In particular, the resulting sample complexity bounds are dimension-independent. Our generalization bounds suggest using novel activation functions for solving fluid dynamics. We provide empirical validation of the suggested activation functions and the corresponding bounds on a PINN setup solving the Taylor-Green vortex benchmark.
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spellingShingle Generalization Bounds for Physics-Informed Neural Networks for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations
Andre-Sloan, Sebastien
Kumar, Dibyakanti
Frangi, Alejandro F
Mukherjee, Anirbit
Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
Analysis of PDEs
This work establishes rigorous first-of-its-kind upper bounds on the generalization error for the method of approximating solutions to the (d+1)-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations by training depth-2 neural networks trained via the unsupervised Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) framework. This is achieved by bounding the Rademacher complexity of the PINN risk. For appropriately weight bounded net classes our derived generalization bounds do not explicitly depend on the network width and our framework characterizes the generalization gap in terms of the fluid's kinematic viscosity and loss regularization parameters. In particular, the resulting sample complexity bounds are dimension-independent. Our generalization bounds suggest using novel activation functions for solving fluid dynamics. We provide empirical validation of the suggested activation functions and the corresponding bounds on a PINN setup solving the Taylor-Green vortex benchmark.
title Generalization Bounds for Physics-Informed Neural Networks for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations
topic Machine Learning
Numerical Analysis
Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23072