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In complex and unknown processes, global models are initially generated over the entire experimental space but often fail to provide accurate predictions in local areas. A common approach is to use local models, which requires partitioning…

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This work introduces a new method to efficiently solve optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs) with uncertain coefficients. The method leverages two sources of inexactness that trade accuracy for speed:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Matthew J. Zahr , Kevin T. Carlberg , Drew P. Kouri

Stochastic unit commitment models typically handle uncertainties in forecast demand by considering a finite number of realizations from a stochastic process model for loads. Accurate evaluations of expectations or higher moments for the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Cosmin Safta , Richard L. Chen , Habib N. Najm , Ali Pinar , Jean-paul watson

Perturbation theory is a crucial tool for many physical systems, when exact solutions are not available, or nonperturbative numerical solutions are intractable. Naive perturbation theory often fails on long timescales, leading to secularly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-01 José T. Gálvez Ghersi , Leo C. Stein

Modeling real-world problems with partial differential equations (PDEs) is a prominent topic in scientific machine learning. Classic solvers for this task continue to play a central role, e.g. to generate training data for deep learning…

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For a class of evolution equations that possibly have only local solutions, we introduce a stochastic component that ensures that the solutions of the corresponding stochastically perturbed equations are global. The class of partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Dan Crisan , Oana Lang

In recent years, semidefinite relaxations of common optimization problems in robotics have attracted growing attention due to their ability to provide globally optimal solutions. In many cases, it was shown that specific handcrafted…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Frederike Dümbgen , Connor Holmes , Ben Agro , Timothy D. Barfoot

We develop a family of reformulations of an arbitrary consistent linear system into a stochastic problem. The reformulations are governed by two user-defined parameters: a positive definite matrix defining a norm, and an arbitrary discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Peter Richtárik , Martin Takáč

The traditional sparse modeling approach, when applied to inverse problems with large data such as images, essentially assumes a sparse model for small overlapping data patches. While producing state-of-the-art results, this methodology is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Dmitry Batenkov , Yaniv Romano , Michael Elad

Polynomial chaos expansions (PCE) allow us to propagate uncertainties in the coefficients of differential equations to the statistics of their solutions. Their main advantage is that they replace stochastic equations by systems of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-25 H. Cagan Ozen , Guillaume Bal

We address the reachability problem for continuous-time stochastic dynamic systems. Our objective is to present a unified framework that characterizes the reachable set of a dynamic system in the presence of both stochastic disturbances and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Saber Jafarpour , Zishun Liu , Yongxin Chen

Recent advances in stochastic differential equations (SDEs) have enabled robust modeling of real-world dynamical processes across diverse domains, such as finance, health, and systems biology. However, parameter estimation for SDEs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Long Van Tran , Truyen Tran , Phuoc Nguyen

We extend the Deep Galerkin Method (DGM) introduced in Sirignano and Spiliopoulos (2018)} to solve a number of partial differential equations (PDEs) that arise in the context of optimal stochastic control and mean field games. First, we…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-04-20 Ali Al-Aradi , Adolfo Correia , Danilo de Frietas Naiff , Gabriel Jardim , Yuri Saporito

We develop efficient hierarchical preconditioners for optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations with uncertain coefficients. Adopting a discretize-then-optimize framework that integrates finite element…

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This paper presents stochastic virtual element methods for propagating uncertainty in linear elastic stochastic problems. We first derive stochastic virtual element equations for 2D and 3D linear elastic problems that may involve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Zhibao Zheng , Udo Nackenhorst

Systems whose time evolutions are entirely deterministic can nevertheless be studied probabilistically, i.e. in terms of the evolution of probability distributions rather than individual trajectories. This approach is central to the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-09-06 S. Richard Taylor

The paper deals with a stochastic Galerkin approximation of elliptic Dirichlet boundary control problems with random input data. The expectation of a tracking cost functional with the deterministic constrained control is minimized. Error…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Max Winkler , Hamdullah Yücel

Dynamical systems that are subject to continuous uncertain fluctuations can be modelled using Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs). Controlling such system results in solving path constrained SDEs. Broadly, these problems fall under the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Sumit Suthar , Soumyendu Raha

This article studies the Stochastic Degasperis-Procesi (SDP) equation on $\mathbb{R}$ with an additive noise. Applying the kinetic theory, and considering the initial conditions in $L^2(\mathbb{R})\cap L^{2+\delta}(\mathbb{R})$, for…

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