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Direct and Indirect Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Dirichlet Boundary Control of Semilinear Parabolic Equations: A Conditional Error Analysis

Nguyen Thanh Quang·Ta Thi Thanh Mai·Bui Xuan Dieu
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We study physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for the Dirichlet boundary control of a semilinear parabolic equation with Tikhonov regularization. Two approaches are considered. A direct PINN parameterizes the state and control by separate networks and minimizes a penalized form of the tracking objective. An indirect PINN instead represents the state, adjoint, and control by unconstrained networks trained jointly to satisfy the first-order optimality system, with the state-control coupling and the homogeneous adjoint boundary and terminal conditions imposed as soft penalty terms rather than enforced architecturally. For the indirect formulation we develop an error estimation framework that decomposes the total error into approximation, optimization, quadrature, and soft boundary/terminal-constraint contributions. Under standing assumptions on optimal-solution regularity and compatibility, network approximability, uniform Hölder control of the soft-constraint residuals, and a local neighborhood of the reference optimality-system solution, we derive a quantitative linearized stability estimate and a conditional local nonlinear residual-to-error estimate, and construct a computable residual indicator with a conditional reliability bound. Numerical experiments on two manufactured test problems - a cubic reactiondiffusion equation and a linear equation with a nontrivial boundary control and adjoint - illustrate the behavior of the direct and indirect formulations.

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Nguyen Thanh Quang, Ta Thi Thanh Mai, Bui Xuan Dieu. 2026-09-13. Direct and Indirect Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Dirichlet Boundary Control of Semilinear Parabolic Equations: A Conditional Error Analysis. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14269

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