Special Session 116: Stochastic computing and structure preserving methods

A supervised learning scheme for computing Hamilton--Jacobi equation via density coupling

Jianbo Cui
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong
Co-Author(s):    Shu Liu and Haomin Zhou
Abstract:
We propose a supervised learning scheme for the first order Hamilton--Jacobi PDEs in high dimensions. The scheme is designed by using the geometric structure of Wasserstein Hamiltonian flows via a density coupling strategy. It is equivalently posed as a regression problem using the Bregman divergence, which provides the loss function in learning while the data is generated through the particle formulation of Wasserstein Hamiltonian flow. We prove a posterior estimate on L1 residual of the proposed scheme based on the coupling density. Furthermore, the proposed scheme can be used to describe the behaviors of Hamilton--Jacobi PDEs beyond the singularity formations on the support of coupling density. Several numerical examples with different Hamiltonians are provided to support our findings.