Adaptive anisotropic composite quadratures for residual minimisation in neural PDE approximations

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Main Authors: Badia, Santiago, Nori, Kishore
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Published: 2026
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author Badia, Santiago
Nori, Kishore
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Nori, Kishore
contents We study the role of numerical quadrature in residual-minimisation methods for neural network approximation of partial differential equations. We first present an abstract error framework that separates approximation, quadrature and optimisation errors, and derive a nonlinear Strang-type estimate quantifying how inaccuracies in the discrete loss affect the final approximation. Motivated by this analysis, we propose an anisotropic adaptive composite quadrature strategy that controls the relative quadrature error of the residual loss using richer reference quadratures and bisection-based refinement. We then introduce a refresh-based training methodology that rebuilds the quadrature only when an online error indicator exceeds a prescribed threshold, balancing accuracy and computational cost. Numerical experiments on a range of benchmark problems show that the proposed approach narrows the gap between training and reference losses, uses quadrature points more efficiently and delivers strong approximation accuracy relative to non-adaptive quadrature strategies.
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spellingShingle Adaptive anisotropic composite quadratures for residual minimisation in neural PDE approximations
Badia, Santiago
Nori, Kishore
Numerical Analysis
We study the role of numerical quadrature in residual-minimisation methods for neural network approximation of partial differential equations. We first present an abstract error framework that separates approximation, quadrature and optimisation errors, and derive a nonlinear Strang-type estimate quantifying how inaccuracies in the discrete loss affect the final approximation. Motivated by this analysis, we propose an anisotropic adaptive composite quadrature strategy that controls the relative quadrature error of the residual loss using richer reference quadratures and bisection-based refinement. We then introduce a refresh-based training methodology that rebuilds the quadrature only when an online error indicator exceeds a prescribed threshold, balancing accuracy and computational cost. Numerical experiments on a range of benchmark problems show that the proposed approach narrows the gap between training and reference losses, uses quadrature points more efficiently and delivers strong approximation accuracy relative to non-adaptive quadrature strategies.
title Adaptive anisotropic composite quadratures for residual minimisation in neural PDE approximations
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00308