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TFC is used to transform PDEs with boundary conditions into unconstrained optimization problems by embedding the boundary conditions into a \"constrained expression.\" In this work, a neural network is chosen as the free function, and used to solve the now unconstrained optimization problem. The loss function is taken as the square of the residual of the PDE. Then, the neural network is trained in an unsupervised manner to solve the unconstrained optimization problem. This methodology has two major differences when compared with popular methods used to estimate the solutions of PDEs. First, this methodology does not need to discretize the domain into a grid, rather, this methodology randomly samples points from the domain during the training phase. Second, after training, this methodology represents a closed form, analytical, differentiable approximation of the solution throughout the entire training domain. In contrast, other popular methods require interpolation if the estimated solution is desired at points that do not lie on the discretized grid. The deep TFC method for estimating the solution of PDEs is demonstrated on four problems with a variety of boundary conditions.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08625v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.08625v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"deep-toc-a-new-method-for-estimating-the","repo_url":"https://github.com/leakec/tfc","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"jax","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"MIT"}}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1812.08625","mcp":{"get_harvested_code_for_paper":{"arxiv_id":"1812.08625"}},"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers","read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","read_at_is":"when the build read Syntology's graph, not when any sample ran","claim":"Per-sample execution status on synthesized fixtures; not a correctness claim about the paper. 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