English
Related papers

Related papers: Rational Construction of Stochastic Numerical Meth…

200 papers

An efficient algorithm to simulate dynamics of open quantum system is presented. The method describes the dynamics by unraveling stochastic wave functions converging to a density operator description. The stochastic techniques are based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Ronnie Kosloff Uriel Shafir

This work proposes a novel numerical scheme for solving the high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation with a functional hierarchical tensor ansatz. We consider the setting of stochastic control, whereby one applies control to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Xun Tang , Nan Sheng , Lexing Ying

We develop efficient numerical methods for performing many-body Brownian dynamics simulations of a recently-observed fingering instability in an active suspension of colloidal rollers sedimented above a wall [M. Driscoll, B. Delmotte, M.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-26 Florencio Balboa Usabiaga , Blaise Delmotte , Aleksandar Donev

Langevin Dynamics has been extensively employed in global non-convex optimization due to the concentration of its stationary distribution around the global minimum of the potential function at low temperatures. In this paper, we propose to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-22 Ryo Fujino

Given a dynamical system with a uniformly hyperbolic (`chaotic') attractor, the physically relevant Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen (SRB) measure can be obtained as the limit of the dynamical evolution of the leaf volume along local unstable manifolds.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Vaughn Climenhaga , Yakov Pesin , Agnieszka Zelerowicz

Classical diffusion in a random medium involves an exponential functional of Brownian motion. This functional also appears in the study of Brownian diffusion on a Riemann surface of constant negative curvature. We analyse in detail this…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Alain COMTET , Cecile MONTHUS

We propose a scalable kinetic Langevin dynamics algorithm for sampling parameter spaces of big data and AI applications. Our scheme combines a symmetric forward/backward sweep over minibatches with a symmetric discretization of Langevin…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-12 Daniel Paulin , Peter A. Whalley , Neil K. Chada , Benedict Leimkuhler

In the study of natural and artificial complex systems, responses that are not completely determined by the considered decision variables are commonly modelled probabilistically, resulting in response distributions varying across decision…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-07 Athénaïs Gautier , David Ginsbourger , Guillaume Pirot

This article is concerned with sampling from Gibbs distributions $\pi(x)\propto e^{-U(x)}$ using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. In particular, we investigate Langevin dynamics in the continuous- and the discrete-time setting for such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Lorenz Fruehwirth , Andreas Habring

We study the problem of parameter estimation for the homogenization limit of multiscale systems involving fractional dynamics. In the case of stochastic multiscale systems driven by Brownian motion, it has been shown that in order for the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Pablo Ramses Alonso-Martin , Horatio Boedihardjo , Anastasia Papavasiliou

We present a novel methodology based on filtered data and moving averages for estimating effective dynamics from observations of multiscale systems. We show in a semi-parametric framework of the Langevin type that our approach is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Giacomo Garegnani , Andrea Zanoni

In this paper a method of obtaining smooth analytical estimates of probability densities, radial distribution functions and potentials of mean force from sampled data in a statistically controlled fashion is presented. The approach is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-08 Ramses van Zon , Jeremy Schofield

Error bounds are derived for sampling and estimation using a discretization of an intrinsically defined Langevin diffusion with invariant measure $\text{d}\mu_\phi \propto e^{-\phi} \mathrm{dvol}_g $ on a compact Riemannian manifold. Two…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Karthik Bharath , Alexander Lewis , Akash Sharma , Michael V Tretyakov

We introduce stochastic models for continuous-time evolution of angles and develop their estimation. We focus on studying Langevin diffusions with stationary distributions equal to well-known distributions from directional statistics, since…

There has been considerable interest in designing Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms by exploiting numerical methods for Langevin dynamics, which includes Hamiltonian dynamics as a deterministic case. A prominent approach is Hamiltonian…

Computation · Statistics 2021-06-08 Zexi Song , Zhiqiang Tan

Sampling the parameter space of artificial neural networks according to a Boltzmann distribution provides insight into the geometry of low-loss solutions and offers an alternative to conventional loss minimization for training. However,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-17 Alessandro Zambon , Francesca Caruso , Riccardo Zecchina , Guido Tiana

Proper modeling of complex systems requires innovative mathematical tools. In this sense, we sought to use deformed or fractal derivatives for studying the dynamics of systems, particularly those, such as granular gases, in which the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-27 José Weberszpil , Cresus F. de L. Godinho , Ion Vasile Vancea

We prove a generalised second-order Boltzmann-Gibbs principle for conservative interacting particle systems on a lattice whose stationary measures are not of product type and not invariant under particle jumps. The result, which requires…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Patrícia Gonçalves , Maria Chiara Ricciuti , Gunter Schütz

The Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) sampling algorithm exploits Hamiltonian dynamics to construct efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), which has become increasingly popular in machine learning and statistics. Since HMC uses the gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Minghao Gu , Shiliang Sun

Flow-based generative models have been employed for sampling the Boltzmann distribution, but their application to high-dimensional systems is hindered by the significant computational cost of obtaining the Jacobian of the flow. To overcome…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-30 Xin Peng , Ang Gao