Partial differential equations in data science
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-5-2025
Abstract
The advent of artificial intelligence and machine learning has led to significant technological and scientific progress, but also to new challenges. Partial differential equations, usually used to model systems in the sciences, have shown to be useful tools in a variety of tasks in the data sciences, be it just as physical models to describe physical data, as more general models to replace or construct artificial neural networks, or as analytical tools to analyse stochastic processes appearing in the training of machine-learning models. This article acts as an introduction of a theme issue covering synergies and intersections of partial differential equations and data science. We briefly review some aspects of these synergies and intersections in this article and end with an editorial foreword to the issue. This article is part of the theme issue 'Partial differential equations in data science'.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
Recommended Citation
Bertozzi, A., Drenska, N., Latz, J., & Thorpe, M. (2025). Partial differential equations in data science. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 383 (2298) https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2024.0249