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Weak Adversarial Neural Pushforward Method for Fractional Fokker-Planck Equations

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Andrew Qing He, Wei Cai

Abstract

We extend the Weak Adversarial Neural Pushforward Method (WANPM) to fractional Fokker-Planck equations (fFPE), in which the classical Laplacian diffusion operator is replaced by the fractional Laplacian $(-Δ)^{α/2}$ for $α\in (0, 2]$. The solution distribution is represented not as an explicit probability density function but as the pushforward of a simple base distribution through a time-parameterized neural network $F_\vartheta(t, x_0, r)$, which enforces the initial condition exactly by construction. The weak formulation of the fFPE is discretized via Monte Carlo sampling entirely without temporal discretization, and the resulting min-max objective is optimized adversarially against a set of plane-wave test functions. A key computational advantage is that plane waves are eigenfunctions of the fractional Laplacian, so $(-Δ_x)^{α/2} f = |w|^αf$ is computed exactly and at no additional cost for any $α$. We validate the method on a one-dimensional fractional Fokker-Planck equation with a quadratic confining potential and $α= 1.5$, using a particle simulation based on symmetric $α$-stable Levy increments as a benchmark. The learned solution faithfully reproduces the transient probability distribution over $t \in [0, 2]$, and robust statistics confirm close agreement with the particle simulation, while standard deviation comparisons highlight why second-moment metrics are inappropriate for heavy-tailed ($α< 2$) distributions.

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arXiv ID: 2603.12869
Provider: ARXIV
Primary Category: math.NA
Published: 2026-03-13
Fetched: 2026-03-16 06:01

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