English
Related papers

Related papers: Mean-Field Backward Stochastic Volterra Integral E…

200 papers

We propose a new method for the numerical solution of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) which finds its roots in Fourier analysis. The method consists of an Euler time discretization of the BSDE with certain conditional…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-25 Cody Blaine Hyndman , Polynice Oyono Ngou

In this paper, we analyze the mean field backward stochastic differential equations (MFBSDEs) with double mean reflections, whose generator and constraints both depend on the distribution of the solution. When the generator is Lipschitz…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Hanwu Li , Jin Shi

The mean field variational inference (MFVI) formulation restricts the general Bayesian inference problem to the subspace of product measures. We present a framework to analyze MFVI algorithms, which is inspired by a similar development for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-21 Soumyadip Ghosh , Yingdong Lu , Tomasz Nowicki , Edith Zhang

This paper is devoted to the numerical resolution of McKean-Vlasov control problems via the class of mean-field neural networks introduced in our companion paper [25] in order to learn the solution on the Wasserstein space. We propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Huyên Pham , Xavier Warin

Mathematical mean-field approaches play an important role in different fields of Physics and Chemistry, but have found in recent works also their application in Economics, Finance and Game Theory. The objective of our paper is to…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-08-28 Rainer Buckdahn , Boualem Djehiche , Juan Li , Shige Peng

The fundamental multidimensional line spectral estimation problem is addressed utilizing the Bayesian methods. Motivated by the recently proposed variational line spectral estimation (VALSE) algorithm, multidimensional VALSE (MDVALSE) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Qi Zhang , Jiang Zhu , Ning Zhang , Zhiwei Xu

In this paper, we study fully coupled nonlocal second order quasilinear forward-backward partial differential equations (FBPDEs), which arise from solution of the mean field game (MFG) suggested by Lasry and Lions [Japan. J. Math. 2 (2007),…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Ziyu Huang , Shanjian Tang

A strong quasi-invariance principle and a finite-dimensional integration by parts formula as in the Bismut approach to Malliavin calculus are obtained through a suitable application of Lie's symmetry theory to autonomous stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-12 Francesco C. De Vecchi , Paola Morando , Stefania Ugolini

We study optimal control of stochastic Volterra integral equations (SVIE) with jumps by using Hida-Malliavin calculus. - We give conditions under which there exists unique solutions of such equations. - Then we prove both a sufficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-07 Nacira Agram , Bernt Øksendal , Samia Yakhlef

Stochastic optimization methods have been hugely successful in making large-scale optimization problems feasible when computing the full gradient is computationally prohibitive. Using the theory of modified equations for numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Stefano Di Giovacchino , Desmond J. Higham , Konstantinos Zygalakis

The inverse relation between mutual information (MI) and Bayesian error is sharpened by deriving finite sequences of upper and lower bounds on MI in terms of the minimum probability of error (MPE) and related Bayesian quantities. The well…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Sudhakar Prasad

Many modern unsupervised or semi-supervised machine learning algorithms rely on Bayesian probabilistic models. These models are usually intractable and thus require approximate inference. Variational inference (VI) lets us approximate a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Cheng Zhang , Judith Butepage , Hedvig Kjellstrom , Stephan Mandt

In this paper, we deal with a class of mean-field backward stochastic differential equations with subdifferrential operator corresponding to a lower semi-continuous convex function. By means of Yosida approximation, the existence and…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-23 Wen Lu , Yong Ren , Lanying Hu

In this paper, we deal with a class of mean-field backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) related to finite state, continuous time Markov chains. We obtain the existence and uniqueness theorem and a comparison theorem for…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-06 Wen Lu , Yong Ren

In this paper, we deal with a class of backward doubly stochastic differential equations (BDSDEs, in short) involving subdifferential operator of a convex function and driven by Teugels martingales associated with a L\'evy process. We show…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-04 Yon Ren , Auguste Aman

We study two-dimensional stochastic differential equations (SDEs) of McKean--Vlasov type in which the conditional distribution of the second component of the solution given the first enters the equation for the first component of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Daniel Lacker , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov , Jiacheng Zhang

Mean-field games with common noise provide a powerful framework for modeling the collective behavior of large populations subject to shared randomness, such as systemic risk in finance or environmental shocks in economics. These problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Ruimeng Hu , Botao Jin , Mathieu Laurière , Jiacheng Zhang

Variational Bayes (VB) provides a computationally efficient alternative to Markov Chain Monte Carlo, especially for high-dimensional and large-scale inference. However, existing theory on VB primarily focuses on fixed-dimensional settings…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Jiawei Yan , Peirong Xu , Tao Wang

Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) is a powerful theoretical framework for analyzing systems with many interacting degrees of freedom. This tutorial provides an accessible introduction to DMFT. We begin with a linear model where the DMFT…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-23 Emmy Blumenthal

In this paper, we focus on the mean-field backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) driven by a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter H greater then 1/2. First, the existence and uniqueness of these equations are…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Jiaqiang Wen , Yufeng Shi