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Error bound analysis of the stochastic parareal algorithm

Numerical Analysis 2023-03-13 v2 Numerical Analysis Computation

Abstract

Stochastic parareal (SParareal) is a probabilistic variant of the popular parallel-in-time algorithm known as parareal. Similarly to parareal, it combines fine- and coarse-grained solutions to an ordinary differential equation (ODE) using a predictor-corrector (PC) scheme. The key difference is that carefully chosen random perturbations are added to the PC to try to accelerate the location of a stochastic solution to the ODE. In this paper, we derive superlinear and linear mean-square error bounds for SParareal applied to nonlinear systems of ODEs using different types of perturbations. We illustrate these bounds numerically on a linear system of ODEs and a scalar nonlinear ODE, showing a good match between theory and numerics.

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@article{arxiv.2211.05496,
  title  = {Error bound analysis of the stochastic parareal algorithm},
  author = {Kamran Pentland and Massimiliano Tamborrino and T. J. Sullivan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.05496},
  year   = {2023}
}
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