An artificial neural network approximation for Cauchy inverse problems

Abstract: A novel artificial neural network method is proposed for solving Cauchy inverse problems. It allows multiple hidden layers with arbitrary width and depth, which theoretically yields better approximations to the inverse problems. In this research, the existence and convergence are shown to establish the well-posedness of neural network method for Cauchy inverse problems, and various numerical examples are presented to illustrate its accuracy and stability. The numerical examples are from different points of view, including time-dependent and time-independent cases, high spatial dimension cases up to 8D, and cases with noisy boundary data and singular computational domain. Moreover, numerical results also show that neural networks with wider and deeper hidden layers could lead to better approximation for Cauchy inverse problems.