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This research introduces Deflation-PINNs, a novel framework combining Physics-Informed Neural Networks with Deep Operator Networks to systematically identify multiple distinct solutions for nonlinear PDEs. By integrating a deflation loss term, the method successfully recovers all stable equilibrium states in complex systems like the Landau-de Gennes model of liquid crystals, overcoming the typical single-solution limitation of standard PINNs. The approach provides both theoretical guarantees on approximation capabilities and empirical validation that neural networks can characterize entire solution branches with high accuracy.
Deflation-PINNs: Learning Multiple Solutions for PDEs and Landau-de Gennes
arXiv:2603.27936v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are ubiquitous in mathematical physics and engineering. Although Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for solving PDE problems, they typically struggle to identify multiple distinct solutions, since they are designed to find one solution at a time. To address this limitation, we introduce Deflation-PINNs, a novel framework that integrates a deflation loss with an architecture based on PINNs and Deep Operator Networks (DeepONets). By incorporating a deflation term into the loss function, our method systematically forces the Deflation-PINN to seek and converge upon distinct finitely many solution branches. We provide theoretical results on the approximation capabilities of our model and demonstrate the efficacy of Deflation-PINNs through numerical experiments on the Landau-de Gennes model of liquid crystals, a system renowned for its complex energy landscape and multiple equilibrium states, and on an Allen--Cahn benchmark whose solution set is provably known. Our results show that Deflation-PINNs can successfully identify and characterize multiple distinct crystal structures: a single unsupervised run recovers all six stable states of the benchmark, each branch certified to lie in the basin of attraction of a different equilibrium, and the discovered branches are refined to percent-level accuracy by a purely neural Deflation--Deep-Ritz stage and to the accuracy of a mesh-converged reference by a classical solver that they initialize.
Abstract:Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are ubiquitous in mathematical physics and engineering. Although Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for solving PDE problems, they typically struggle to identify multiple distinct solutions, since they are designed to find one solution at a time. To address this limitation, we introduce Deflation-PINNs, a novel framework that integrates a deflation loss with an architecture based on PINNs and Deep Operator Networks (DeepONets). By incorporating a deflation term into the loss function, our method systematically forces the Deflation-PINN to seek and converge upon distinct finitely many solution branches. We provide theoretical results on the approximation capabilities of our model and demonstrate the efficacy of Deflation-PINNs through numerical experiments on the Landau-de Gennes model of liquid crystals, a system renowned for its complex energy landscape and multiple equilibrium states, and on an Allen--Cahn benchmark whose solution set is provably known. Our results show that Deflation-PINNs can successfully identify and characterize multiple distinct crystal structures: a single unsupervised run recovers all six stable states of the benchmark, each branch certified to lie in the basin of attraction of a different equilibrium, and the discovered branches are refined to percent-level accuracy by a purely neural Deflation--Deep-Ritz stage and to the accuracy of a mesh-converged reference by a classical solver that they initialize.
Numerical Analysis (math.NA); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2603.27936 [math.NA]
(or arXiv:2603.27936v3 [math.NA] for this version)
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