math.NASep 25, 2026

Deep-Learning Solvers and Surrogates for Infinity and p-Laplace Problems

Authors: Tak Shing Au Yeung, Ka Chun Cheung, Hannah Potgieter, Steven J. Ruuth, Simon See

Organizations: NVIDIA AI Technology Center, NVIDIA, Hong Kong, China · Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada · NVIDIA AI Technology Center, NVIDIA, Singapore, Singapore

Abstract

We investigate the use of neural network solvers for infinity and pp-Laplace problems, which are fundamental in nonlinear analysis and have practical applications. Our approach employs Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) and Deep Operator Networks (DeepONets) to address computational challenges associated with large pp values, ranging from 22 to 10001000, on various 2D and 3D domains. Our method offers advantages over traditional physics-based solvers, especially in three dimensions where mesh-based solvers become very costly for these problems. We also establish conditional convergence results for PINN approximations of both problems and a universal approximation result for DeepONet on the parametric pp-Poisson problem. We demonstrate the effectiveness of these neural network solvers through numerical experiments and compare their performance with conventional methods.

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