An acceleration scheme for deep learning-based BSDE solver using weak expansions

Abstract

This paper gives an acceleration scheme for deep backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) solver, a deep learning method for solving BSDEs introduced in Weinan et al. [Weinan, E, J Han and A Jentzen (2017). Deep learning-based numerical methods for high-dimensional parabolic partial differential equations and backward stochastic differential equations, Communications in Mathematics and Statistics, 5(4), 349–380]. The solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations are quickly estimated using technique of weak approximation even if the dimension is high. In particular, the loss function and the relative error for the target solution become sufficiently small through a smaller number of iteration steps in the new deep BSDE solver.