Physics-informed neural networks for high-dimensional solutions and snaking bifurcations in nonlinear lattices

TL;DR

This paper develops a physics-informed neural network framework to efficiently approximate solutions, construct bifurcation diagrams, and analyze stability of high-dimensional nonlinear lattice models, outperforming traditional methods in accuracy and scalability.

Contribution

It introduces a novel PINN-based approach coupled with continuation and eigenvector constraints for high-dimensional nonlinear lattice analysis.

Findings

Accurate solution approximation in high dimensions

Effective bifurcation diagram computation using continuation

Enhanced stability analysis via eigenvector PINNs

Abstract

This paper introduces a framework based on physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for addressing key challenges in nonlinear lattices, including solution approximation, bifurcation diagram construction, and linear stability analysis. We first employ PINNs to approximate solutions of nonlinear systems arising from lattice models, using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm to optimize network weights for greater accuracy. To enhance computational efficiency in high-dimensional settings, we integrate a stochastic sampling strategy. We then extend the method by coupling PINNs with a continuation approach to compute snaking bifurcation diagrams, incorporating an auxiliary equation to effectively track successive solution branches. For linear stability analysis, we adapt PINNs to compute eigenvectors, introducing output constraints to enforce positivity, in line with Sturm-Liouville theory. Numerical experiments are conducted on the discrete Allen-Cahn equation with cubic and quintic nonlinearities in one to five spatial dimensions. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves accuracy comparable to, or better than, traditional numerical methods, especially in high-dimensional regimes where computational resources are a limiting factor. These findings highlight the potential of neural networks as scalable and efficient tools for the study of complex nonlinear lattice systems.