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We propose a variational method to solve all three estimation problems for nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems: prediction, filtering, and smoothing. Our new approach is based upon a proper choice of cost function, termed the {\it…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory L. Eyink

We show for the first time that the stochastic variational method can naturally derive the Navier-Stokes equation starting from the action of ideal fluid. In the frame work of the stochastic variational method, the dynamical variables are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-18 T. Koide , T. Kodama

We present a variational method for online state estimation and parameter learning in state-space models (SSMs), a ubiquitous class of latent variable models for sequential data. As per standard batch variational techniques, we use…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-16 Andrew Campbell , Yuyang Shi , Tom Rainforth , Arnaud Doucet

Canonical coordinates for the Schr\"odinger equation are introduced, making more transparent its Hamiltonian structure. It is shown that the Schr\"odinger equation, considered as a classical field theory, shares with Liouville completely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Marmo , G. Vilasi

A variational framework is developed here to quantize fermionic fields based on the extended stationary action principle. From the first principle, we successfully derive the well-known Floreanini-Jackiw representation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Jianhao M. Yang

Stochastic mechanics (SM), as proposed by Edward Nelson and others in the 20th century, aims to reconstruct quantum mechanics (QM) from a more fundamental theory of classical point particles interacting with a classical-like ether, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-05 Maaneli Derakhshani

In Stochastic Optimal Control (SOC) one minimizes the average cost-to-go, that consists of the cost-of-control (amount of efforts), cost-of-space (where one wants the system to be) and the target cost (where one wants the system to arrive),…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-29 Vladimir Y. Chernyak , Michael Chertkov , Joris Bierkens , Hilbert J. Kappen

In order to inherit numerically the ergodicity of the damped stochastic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with additive noise, we propose a fully discrete scheme, whose spatial direction is based on spectral Galerkin method and temporal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Chuchu Chen , Jialin Hong , Xu Wang

This paper presents a continuous and discrete Lagrangian theory for stochastic Hamiltonian systems on manifolds. The main result is to derive stochastic governing equations for such systems from a critical point of a stochastic action.…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-06-02 Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Houman Owhadi

We study the stochastic quantization of the system with first class constraints in phase space. Though the Langevin equations of the canonical variables are defined without ordinary gauge fixing procedure, gauge fixing conditions are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 R. Mochizuki

We introduce a new variational characterization of Gaussian diffusion processes as minimum uncertainty states. We then define a variational method constrained by kinematics of diffusions and Schr\"{o}dinger dynamics to seek states of local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 F. Illuminati , L. Viola

We embed Nelson's stochastic quantization in the Schwartz-Meyer second order geometry framework. The result is a non-perturbative theory of quantum mechanics on (pseudo)-Riemannian manifolds. Within this approach, we derive stochastic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-07 Folkert Kuipers

This paper investigates an averaging principle for stochastic Klein-Gordon equation with a fast oscillation arising as the solution of a stochastic reaction-diffusion equation evolving with respect to the fast time. Stochastic averaging…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-03-23 Peng Gao

We regard the non-relativistic Schrodinger equation as an ensemble mean representation of the stochastic motion of a single particle in a vacuum, subject to an undefined stochastic quantum force. The local mean of the quantum force is found…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Roumen Tsekov , Eyal Heifetz , Eliahu Cohen

Variational (Rayleigh-Ritz) methods are applied to local quantum field theory. For scalar theories the wave functional is parametrized in the form of a superposition of Gaussians and the expectation value of the Hamiltonian is expressed in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 George Tiktopoulos

Variational inequalities are a universal optimization paradigm that incorporate classical minimization and saddle point problems. Nowadays more and more tasks require to consider stochastic formulations of optimization problems. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Alexander Pichugin , Maksim Pechin , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Vasilii Novitskii , Alexander Gasnikov

The set of continuous norm-preserving stochastic Schrodinger equations associated with the Lindblad master equation is introduced. This set is used to describe the localization properties of the state vector toward eigenstates of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Rigo , F. Mota-Furtado , P. F. O'Mahony

The stochastic finite volume method (SFV method) is a high-order accurate method for uncertainty quantification (UQ) in hyperbolic conservation laws. However, the computational cost of SFV method increases for high-dimensional stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Ray Qu , Jesse Chan , Svetlana Tokareva

We present a numerical investigation of stochastic transport in ideal fluids. According to Holm (Proc Roy Soc, 2015) and Cotter et al. (2017), the principles of transformation theory and multi-time homogenisation, respectively, imply a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-28 Colin J. Cotter , Dan Crisan , Darryl D. Holm , Wei Pan , Igor Shevchenko

Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD) is a general-purpose optimization-based sampling algorithm that has recently exploded in popularity, but is limited by two issues: it is known to produce biased samples, and it can be slow to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-20 Alex Leviyev , Joshua Chen , Yifei Wang , Omar Ghattas , Aaron Zimmerman