Posterior Concentration of Bayesian Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Elliptic PDEs

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author Zhao, Yuxuan
Lu, Yulong
author_facet Zhao, Yuxuan
Lu, Yulong
contents We study the posterior contraction rate of Bayesian Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) for solving a general class of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). We focus on learning of the elliptic equation with a non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition from independent and noisy measurements collected both inside the domain and on the boundary. Assuming that the PDE admits a strong solution in a Hölder space and using with a suitably constructed prior on the neural network weights, we prove that the posterior distribution concentrates around the exact solution at a near-minimax rate. Furthermore, the chosen prior is rate-adaptive: the posterior contracts at an (almost) optimal rate without prior knowledge of the smoothness level of the exact solution. Our results provide statistical guarantees for uncertainty quantification of PDEs via Bayesian PINNs.
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spellingShingle Posterior Concentration of Bayesian Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Elliptic PDEs
Zhao, Yuxuan
Lu, Yulong
Statistics Theory
Numerical Analysis
Machine Learning
We study the posterior contraction rate of Bayesian Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) for solving a general class of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). We focus on learning of the elliptic equation with a non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition from independent and noisy measurements collected both inside the domain and on the boundary. Assuming that the PDE admits a strong solution in a Hölder space and using with a suitably constructed prior on the neural network weights, we prove that the posterior distribution concentrates around the exact solution at a near-minimax rate. Furthermore, the chosen prior is rate-adaptive: the posterior contracts at an (almost) optimal rate without prior knowledge of the smoothness level of the exact solution. Our results provide statistical guarantees for uncertainty quantification of PDEs via Bayesian PINNs.
title Posterior Concentration of Bayesian Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Elliptic PDEs
topic Statistics Theory
Numerical Analysis
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08672