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The path probability of stochastic motion of non dissipative or quasi-Hamiltonian systems is investigated by numerical experiment. The simulation model generates ideal one-dimensional motion of particles subject only to conservative forces…

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We deal with the problem of parameter estimation in stochastic differential equations (SDEs) in a partially observed framework. We aim to design a method working for both elliptic and hypoelliptic SDEs, the latters being characterized by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Quentin Clairon , Adeline Samson

In this paper we propose a numerical scheme for the class of backward doubly stochastic (BDSDEs) with possible path-dependent terminal values. We prove that our scheme converge in the strong $L^2$-sense and derive its rate of convergence.…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-04 Auguste Aman

A strategy for finding transition paths connecting two stable basins is presented. The starting point is the Hamilton principle of stationary action; we show how it can be transformed into a minimum principle through the addition of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniele Passerone , Matteo Ceccarelli , Michele Parrinello

Optimization problems involving sequential decisions in a stochastic environment were studied in Stochastic Programming (SP), Stochastic Optimal Control (SOC) and Markov Decision Processes (MDP). In this paper we mainly concentrate on SP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Guanghui Lan , Alexander Shapiro

We propose a probabilistic numerical algorithm to solve Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs) with nonnegative jumps, a class of BSDEs introduced in [9] for representing fully nonlinear HJB equations. In particular, this allows…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Idris Kharroubi , Nicolas Langrené , Huyên Pham

In this paper numerical methods for solving stochastic differential equations with Markovian switching (SDEwMSs) are developed by pathwise approximation. The proposed family of strong predictor-corrector Euler-Maruyama methods is designed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-03-08 Jun Ye , Haibo Li , Lili Xiao

We develop dual approaches for continuous-time stochastic control problems, enabling the computation of robust dual bounds in high-dimensional state and control spaces. Building on the dual formulation proposed in [L. C. G. Rogers, SIAM…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Mathieu Laurière , Jiefei Yang

We present a novel energy-based numerical analysis of semilinear diffusion-reaction boundary value problems. Based on a suitable variational setting, the proposed computational scheme can be seen as an energy minimisation approach. More…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Mario Amrein , Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler

We propose an accurate data-driven numerical scheme to solve Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs), by taking large time steps. The SDE discretization is built up by means of a polynomial chaos expansion method, on the basis of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-24 Shuaiqiang Liu , Lech A. Grzelak , Cornelis W. Oosterlee

In this paper, we extend the dynamical low-rank approximation method to the space of finite signed measures. Under this framework, we derive stochastic low-rank dynamics for stochastic differential equations (SDEs) coming from classical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-05 Yu Cao , Jianfeng Lu

In this paper, we study the optimal control of a discrete-time stochastic differential equation (SDE) of mean-field type, where the coefficients can depend on both a function of the law and the state of the process. We establish a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Arzu Ahmadova , Nazim I. Mahmudov

There has been a great deal of recent interest in learning and approximation of functions that can be expressed as expectations of a given nonlinearity with respect to its random internal parameters. Examples of such representations include…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Tanya Veeravalli , Maxim Raginsky

Numerical continuation methods for deterministic dynamical systems have been one of the most successful tools in applied dynamical systems theory. Continuation techniques have been employed in all branches of the natural sciences as well as…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Christian Kuehn

We present new algorithms and fast implementations to find efficient approximations for modelling stochastic processes. For many numerical computations it is essential to develop finite approximations for stochastic processes. While the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Kipngeno Benard Kirui , Georg Ch. Pflug , Alois Pichler

This paper considers the problem of partially observed optimal control for forward stochastic systems which are driven by Brownian motions and an independent Poisson random measure with a feature that the cost functional is of mean-field…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-19 Yaozhong Hu , David Nualart , Qing Zhou

The Bayesian inversion method demonstrates significant potential for solving inverse problems, enabling both point estimation and uncertainty quantification (UQ). However, Bayesian maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation may become unstable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Ruibiao Song , Liying Zhang

The aim of this study is to find a generic method for generating a path of the solution of a given stochastic differential equation which is more efficient than the standard Euler-Maruyama scheme with Gaussian increments. First we…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Masaaki Fukasawa , Jan Obloj

Navigating a collision-free and optimal trajectory for a robot is a challenging task, particularly in environments with moving obstacles such as humans. We formulate this problem as a stochastic optimal control problem. Since solving the…

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