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We present a numerical method for the approximation of solutions for the class of stochastic differential equations driven by Brownian motions which induce stochastic variation in fixed directions. This class of equations arises naturally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-15 David F. Anderson , Jonathan C. Mattingly

In this paper we show that the rate of convergence of Wong-Zakai approximations for stochastic partial differential equations driven by Wiener processes is essentially the same as the rate of convergence of the driving processes W_n…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-09-14 I. Gyöngy , P. R. Stinga

We establish the existence of solutions to common noise McKean-Vlasov martingale problems for coefficients with low regularity. Our approach is able to handle the key challenge posed by drift coefficients that are discontinuous with respect…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Robert Alexander Crowell

In their seminal work, Polyak and Juditsky showed that stochastic approximation algorithms for solving smooth equations enjoy a central limit theorem. Moreover, it has since been argued that the asymptotic covariance of the method is best…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Damek Davis , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Liwei Jiang

This paper introduces a comprehensive extension of the path integral formalism to model stochastic processes with arbitrary multiplicative noise. To do so, It\^o diffusive process is generalized by incorporating a multiplicative noise term…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 F. S. Abril-Bermúdez , C. J. Quimbay , J. E. Trinidad-Segovia , M. A Sánchez-Granero

In this paper, we study the stochastic Hamiltonian flow in Wasserstein manifold, the probability density space equipped with $L^2$-Wasserstein metric tensor, via the Wong--Zakai approximation. We begin our investigation by showing that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Jianbo Cui , Shu Liu , Haomin Zhou

We discuss stochastic differential equations with a stiff linear part and their approximation by stochastic exponential integrators. Representing the exact and approximate solutions using B-series and rooted trees, we derive the order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Alemayehu Adugna Arara , Kristian Debrabant , Anne Kværnø

We adapt the precise definition of the flowing effective action in order to obtain a functional flow equation with simple properties close to physical intuition. The simplified flow equation is invariant under local gauge transformations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-09 C. Wetterich

This review provides a pedagogic and self-contained introduction to master equations and to their representation by path integrals. We discuss analytical and numerical methods for the solution of master equations, keeping our focus on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-04 Markus F. Weber , Erwin Frey

We first prove some general results on pathwise uniqueness, comparison property and existence of nonnegative strong solutions of stochastic equations driven by white noises and Poisson random measures. The results are then used to prove the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-04-12 Donald A. Dawson , Zenghu Li

This is a handbook of simple proofs of the convergence of gradient and stochastic gradient descent type methods. We consider functions that are Lipschitz, smooth, convex, strongly convex, and/or Polyak-{\L}ojasiewicz functions. Our focus is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Guillaume Garrigos , Robert M. Gower

In this paper, a combination of Galerkin's method and Dafermos' transformation is first used to prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions for a class of stochastic nonlocal PDEs with long time memory driven by additive noise. Next,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Jiaohui Xu , Tomás Caraballo , José Valero

Stein's method for Gaussian process approximation can be used to bound the differences between the expectations of smooth functionals $h$ of a c\`adl\`ag random process $X$ of interest and the expectations of the same functionals of a well…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-15 A. D. Barbour , Nathan Ross , Guangqu Zheng

The paper deals with the fast-slow motions setups in the continuous time $\frac {dX^\ve(t)}{dt}=\frac 1\ve\sig(X^\ve(t))\xi(t/\ve^2)+b(X^\ve(t)),\, t\in [0,T]$ and the discrete time…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Peter Friz , Yuri Kifer

A convergence theorem for the continuous weak approximation of the solution of stochastic differential equations by general one step methods is proved, which is an extension of a theorem due to Milstein. As an application, uniform second…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-19 Kristian Debrabant , Andreas Rößler

We deal with Mckean-Vlasov and Boltzmann type jump equations. This means that the coefficients of the stochastic equation depend on the law of the solution, and the equation is driven by a Poisson point measure with intensity measure which…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Yifeng Qin

Sparse inversion and classification problems are ubiquitous in modern data science and imaging. They are often formulated as non-smooth minimisation problems. In sparse inversion, we minimise, e.g., the sum of a data fidelity term and an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Jonas Latz

We provide a comprehensive presentation of the Hierarchical Reference Theory (HRT) in the smooth cut-off formulation. A simple and self-consistent derivation of the hierarchy of differential equations is supplemented by a comparison with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Alberto Parola , Davide Pini , Luciano Reatto

Normalizing flows are a promising tool for modeling probability distributions in physical systems. While state-of-the-art flows accurately approximate distributions and energies, applications in physics additionally require smooth energies…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-01 Jonas Köhler , Andreas Krämer , Frank Noé

The stochastic theory of non-relativistic quantum mechanics presented here relies heavily upon the theory of stochastic processes, with its definitions, theorems and specific vocabulary as well. Its main hypothesis states indeed that the…

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