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We propose a fast stochastic Hamilton Monte Carlo (HMC) method, for sampling from a smooth and strongly log-concave distribution. At the core of our proposed method is a variance reduction technique inspired by the recent advance in…

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We present a new numerical scheme for one dimensional dynamical systems. This is a modification of the discrete gradient method and keeps its advantages, including the stability and the conservation of the energy integral. However, its…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Jan L. Cieslinski , Boguslaw Ratkiewicz

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo is a widely used algorithm for sampling from posterior distributions of complex Bayesian models. It can efficiently explore high-dimensional parameter spaces guided by simulated Hamiltonian flows. However, the…

Computation · Statistics 2019-04-29 Lingge Li , Andrew Holbrook , Babak Shahbaba , Pierre Baldi

An algorithm for a family of self-starting high-order implicit time integration schemes with controllable numerical dissipation is proposed for both linear and nonlinear transient problems. This work builds on the previous works of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Daniel O'Shea , Xiaoran Zhang , Shayan Mohammadian , Chongmin Song

We propose a variational splitting technique for the generalized-$\alpha$ method to solve hyperbolic partial differential equations. We use tensor-product meshes to develop the splitting method, which has a computational cost that grows…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Pouria Behnoudfar , Quanling Deng , Victor M. Calo

Several physical systems in condensed matter have been modeled approximating their constituent particles as hard objects. The hard spheres model has been indeed one of the cornerstones of the computational and theoretical description in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Cristiano De Michele

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach that exhibits favourable exploration properties in high-dimensional models such as neural networks. Unfortunately, HMC has limited use in large-data regimes and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-15 Adam D. Cobb , Brian Jalaian

Learning dynamical systems through purely data-driven methods is challenging as they do not learn the underlying conservation laws that enable them to correctly generalize. Existing port-Hamiltonian neural network methods have recently been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Maximino Linares , Guillaume Doras , Thomas Hélie

This paper presents a methodology and numerical algorithms for constructing accelerated gradient flows on the space of probability distributions. In particular, we extend the recent variational formulation of accelerated gradient methods in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Amirhossein Taghvaei , Prashant G. Mehta

Moving Horizon Estimation~(MHE) is essentially an optimization-based approach designed to estimate the states of dynamic systems within a moving time horizon. Traditional MHE solutions become computationally prohibitive due to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Shuting Wu , Yifei Wang , Jingzhe Wang , Apostolos I. Rikos , Xu Du

A novel notion for constructing a well-balanced scheme - a gradient-robust scheme - is introduced and a showcase application for a steady compressible, isothermal Stokes equations is presented. Gradient-robustness means that arbitrary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Mine Akbas , Thierry Gallouet , Almut Gassmann , Alexander Linke , Christian Merdon

Hamiltonian dynamics describe a wide range of physical systems. As such, data-driven simulations of Hamiltonian systems are important for many scientific and engineering problems. In this work, we propose kernel-based methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Yasamin Jalalian , Mostafa Samir , Boumediene Hamzi , Peyman Tavallali , Houman Owhadi

A particle-in-cell algorithm is derived with a canonical Poisson structure in the formalism of finite element exterior calculus. The resulting method belongs to the class of gauge-compatible splitting algorithms, which exactly preserve…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Alexander S. Glasser , Hong Qin

To investigate solutions of (near-)optimal control problems, we extend and exploit a notion of homogeneity recently proposed in the literature for discrete-time systems. Assuming the plant dynamics is homogeneous, we first derive a scaling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-24 Mathieu Granzotto , Romain Postoyan , Lucian Buşoniu , Dragan Nešić , Jamal Daafouz

This study addresses the challenge of simulating realistic particle systems by proposing a novel particle decomposition scheme that improves the parallel performance of surface resolved particle simulations. Realistic particle systems often…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-21 J. E. Marquardt , N. Hafen , M. J. Krause

In this paper we design discrete port-Hamiltonian systems systematically in two different ways, by applying discrete gradient methods and splitting methods respectively. The discrete port-Hamiltonian systems we get satisfy a discrete notion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Elena Celledoni , Eirik Hoel Høiseth

In this paper structure-preserving time-integrators for rigid body-type mechanical systems are derived from a discrete Hamilton-Pontryagin variational principle. From this principle one can derive a novel class of variational partitioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-01-08 Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Jerrold E. Marsden

The high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method combining with an implicit iterative scheme is used to find the steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation with full collision integral on two-dimensional triangular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-19 Wei Su , Peng Wang , Yonghao Zhang , Lei Wu

The Hamiltonian structures of several hybrid kinetic-fluid models are identified explicitly, upon considering collisionless Vlasov dynamics for the hot particles interacting with a bulk fluid. After presenting different pressure-coupling…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-07-29 Cesare Tronci

The robustness of dynamical systems against external perturbations is crucial in engineering; however, it is often overlooked for the lack of methods for rapidly computing it. This paper proposes a novel algorithm for estimating the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Bence Szaksz , Gabor Stepan , Giuseppe Habib