Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 8, 2026
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This is a preprint presenting a neural network framework for learning when simplified boundary conditions can replace complex ones in parametric PDEs, using error prediction gating. The work is exploratory and methodological, focused on galvanic corrosion and nonlinear problems, but lacks peer review, quantitative validation metrics, and comparison to existing reduction or approximation methods.
Preprint. Intervention: Neural network trained on paired PDE solutions to predict errors and gate selection between a stiff/nonlinear boundary condition and its limiting Dirichlet form.
Framework uses paired PDE solutions to train a neural network to predict domain and boundary errors for a reduced boundary condition Simpler boundary condition (Dirichlet limit) applied only when both predicted errors meet prescribed tolerances Tested on galvanic corrosion problem and other nonlinear stationary and evolution problems
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A methodological framework for learning error-based boundary condition reduction in PDE solvers, demonstrated on limited applications without clinical or clinical-adjacent endpoints, peer review, or comparison to established methods.
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Parametric PDEs can admit different boundary conditions with different accuracy and computational cost. We introduce a framework for learning when one reduced boundary condition can replace another: paired solutions train a neural network to estimate the resulting domain and boundary errors, and the simpler condition is used only when both predicted errors meet prescribed tolerances. We focus on singular limits in applications, in which a stiff Robin or nonlinear boundary law is replaced by its limiting Dirichlet form. We evaluate the method on a galvanic corrosion problem and other nonlinear stationary and evolution problems.
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