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We study the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations in the context of stochastic finite element discretizations. Specifically, we assume that the viscosity is a random field given in the form of a generalized polynomial chaos expansion, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Bedřich Sousedík , Randy Price

Gaussian Processes (GPs) are widely used to model dependencies in spatial statistics and machine learning. However, exact inference is computationally intractable for GP regression, with a time complexity of $O(n^3)$. The Vecchia…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Botond Szabo , Yichen Zhu

The generalized Langevin equation is used as a model for various coarse-grained physical processes, e.g., the time evolution of the velocity of a given larger particle in an implicitly represented solvent, when the relevant time scales of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-13 Niklas Bockius , Maximilian Braun , Kay Hofmann , Friederike Schmid , Martin Hanke

In science and engineering, we often work with models designed for accurate prediction of variables of interest. Recognizing that these models are approximations of reality, it becomes desirable to apply multiple models to the same data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Marzieh Ajirak , Daniel Waxman , Fernando Llorente , Petar M. Djuric

A system with two correlated Gaussian white noises is analysed. This system can describe both stochastic localization and long tails in the stationary distribution. Correlations between the noises can lead to a nonmonotonic behaviour of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 P. F. Gora

Monte Carlo sampling for Bayesian posterior inference is a common approach used in machine learning. The Markov Chain Monte Carlo procedures that are used are often discrete-time analogues of associated stochastic differential equations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-14 Xiaocheng Shang , Zhanxing Zhu , Benedict Leimkuhler , Amos J. Storkey

A new discrete-time shot noise Cox process for spatiotemporal data is proposed. The random intensity is driven by a dependent sequence of latent gamma random measures. Some properties of the latent process are derived, such as an…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-17 Federico Bassetti , Roberto Casarin , Matteo Iacopini

We study the extremal properties of a stochastic process $x_t$ defined by a Langevin equation $\dot{x}_t=\sqrt{2 D_0 V(B_t)}\,\xi_t$, where $\xi_t$ is a Gaussian white noise with zero mean, $D_0$ is a constant scale factor, and $V(B_t)$ is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-14 D. S. Grebenkov , V. Sposini , R. Metzler , G. Oshanin , F. Seno

In a previous paper (gr-qc/0105100) we derived a set of near-optimal signal detection techniques for gravitational wave detectors whose noise probability distributions contain non-Gaussian tails. The methods modify standard methods by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Bruce Allen , Jolien D. E. Creighton , Eanna E. Flanagan , Joseph D. Romano

Gaussian processes (GPs) are a Bayesian machine learning approach widely used to construct surrogate models for the uncertainty quantification of computer simulation codes in industrial applications. It provides both a mean predictor and an…

We asymptotically derive a non-linear Langevin-like equation with non-Gaussian white noise for a wide class of stochastic systems associated with multiple stochastic environments, by developing the expansion method in our previous paper [K.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-04 Kiyoshi Kanazawa , Tomohiko G. Sano , Takahiro Sagawa , Hisao Hayakawa

Multireference alignment (MRA) problem is to estimate an underlying signal from a large number of noisy circularly-shifted observations. The existing methods are always proposed under the hypothesis of a single Gaussian noise. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Cuicui Zhao , Jun Liu , Xinqi Gong

Guided diffusion sampling relies on approximating often intractable likelihood scores, which introduces significant noise into the sampling dynamics. We propose using adaptive moment estimation to stabilize these noisy likelihood scores…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Christian Belardi , Justin Lovelace , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Carla P. Gomes

This paper introduces a method to approximate Gaussian process regression by representing the problem as a stochastic differential equation and using variational inference to approximate solutions. The approximations are compared with full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Wil O C Ward , Mauricio A Álvarez

Switching dynamical systems provide a powerful, interpretable modeling framework for inference in time-series data in, e.g., the natural sciences or engineering applications. Since many areas, such as biology or discrete-event systems, are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Lukas Köhs , Bastian Alt , Heinz Koeppl

We consider potential type dynamical systems in finite dimensions with two meta-stable states. They are subject to two sources of perturbation: a slow external periodic perturbation of period $T$ and a small Gaussian random perturbation of…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Samuel Herrmann , Peter Imkeller , Dierk Peithmann

Fractional Gaussian noise models the time series with long-range dependence; when the Hurst index $H>1/2$, it has positive correlation reflecting a persistent autocorrelation structure. This paper studies the numerical method for solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Daxin Nie , Jing Sun , Weihua Deng

A parameter estimation problem is considered for a one-dimensional stochastic wave equation driven by additive space-time Gaussian white noise. The estimator is of spectral type and utilizes a finite number of the spatial Fourier…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-10-02 W. Liu , S. V. Lototsky

We show that Liouville-von Neumann approach to quantum mechanical systems, which demands the existence of invariant operators, reproduces the time-dependent variational Gaussian approximation. We find the effective action of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Jae Hyung Yee

This paper investigates a damped stochastic wave equation driven by a non-Gaussian Levy noise. The weak solution is proved to exist and be unique. Moreover we show the existence of a unique invariant measure associated with the transition…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-05-08 Lijun Bo , Kehua Shi , Yongjin Wang