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We prove, under mild conditions, that the stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics converges to a limiting law as time tends to infinity, even in the case where the driving data sequence is dependent.

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Miklós Rásonyi , Kinga Tikosi

In this paper, we provide new insights on the Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm. We show that this method can be formulated as a first order optimization algorithm of an objective functional defined on the Wasserstein space of order $2$. Using…

Computation · Statistics 2018-03-30 Alain Durmus , Szymon Majewski , Błażej Miasojedow

We present a unified framework to analyze the global convergence of Langevin dynamics based algorithms for nonconvex finite-sum optimization with $n$ component functions. At the core of our analysis is a direct analysis of the ergodicity of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-20 Pan Xu , Jinghui Chen , Difan Zou , Quanquan Gu

Stochastic gradients have been widely integrated into Langevin-based methods to improve their scalability and efficiency in solving large-scale sampling problems. However, the proximal sampler, which exhibits much faster convergence than…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-28 Xunpeng Huang , Difan Zou , Yi-An Ma , Hanze Dong , Tong Zhang

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is the optimization algorithm of choice in many machine learning applications such as regularized empirical risk minimization and training deep neural networks. The classical convergence analysis of SGD is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Lam M. Nguyen , Phuong Ha Nguyen , Marten van Dijk , Peter Richtárik , Katya Scheinberg , Martin Takáč

We establish sharp well-posedness and approximation estimates for variational saddle point systems at the continuous level. The main results of this note have been known to be true only in the finite dimensional case. Known spectral results…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Constantin Bacuta

In this paper, we introduce the tamed stochastic gradient descent method (TSGD) for optimization problems. Inspired by the tamed Euler scheme, which is a commonly used method within the context of stochastic differential equations, TSGD is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Monika Eisenmann , Tony Stillfjord

A new approach in stochastic optimization via the use of stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics (SGLD) algorithms, which is a variant of stochastic gradient decent (SGD) methods, allows us to efficiently approximate global minimizers of…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-07-06 Sotirios Sabanis , Ying Zhang

In this paper, we consider the stochastic Langevin equation with additive noises, which possesses both conformal symplectic geometric structure and ergodicity. We propose a methodology of constructing high weak order conformal symplectic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Jialin Hong , Liying Sun , Xu Wang

In this work we show that results of Rayleigh-Schr\"{o}dinger perturbation theory can be easily obtained using the recently proposed supersymmetric expansion algorithm. Our formalism avoids the sums over intermediate states and yield…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-15 M. Napsuciale , S. Rodríguez

This paper presents a novel adaptive multivariable smooth second-order sliding mode approach with the features of fast finite-time convergence, adaptation to disturbances and smooth. This approach can be directly applied to the controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-13 Xidong Wang

An interior-point algorithm framework is proposed, analyzed, and tested for solving nonlinearly constrained continuous optimization problems. The main setting of interest is when the objective and constraint functions may be nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Frank E. Curtis , Xin Jiang , Qi Wang

In this paper, we introduce a new approach to proving the convergence of the Stochastic Approximation (SA) and the Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) algorithms. The new approach is based on a concept called GSLLN (Generalized Strong Law of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar , Bhamidi Visweswara Rao , Mathukumalli Vidyasagar

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive theoretical analysis of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and its momentum variants (Polyak Heavy-Ball and Nesterov) for tracking time-varying optima under strong convexity and smoothness. Our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-20 Sharan Sahu , Cameron J. Hogan , Martin T. Wells

By employing non-equispaced grid points near boundaries, boundary-optimized upwind finite-difference operators of orders up to nine are developed. The boundary closures are constructed within a diagonal-norm summation-by-parts (SBP)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Ken Mattsson , David Niemelä , Andrew R. Winters

We study the convergence of a random iterative sequence of a family of operators on infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces, inspired by the Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) algorithm in the case of the noiseless regression, as studied in [1].…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-02 Soumyadip Ghosh , Yingdong Lu , Tomasz J. Nowicki

We address the open problem of determining which classes of time-dependent linear Schr\"odinger equations and focusing and defocusing cubic and quintic non-linear Schr\"odinger equations (NLS) on unbounded domains that can be computed by an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Simon Becker , Anders Hansen

We develop a novel class of MCMC algorithms based on a stochastized Nesterov scheme. With an appropriate addition of noise, the result is a time-inhomogeneous underdamped Langevin equation, which we prove emits a specified target…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Duy H. Thai , Alexander L. Young , David B. Dunson

We give accurate and ergodic numerical methods for semilinear, second-order Langevin stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE). As a byproduct, we also give good geometric numerical methods for their infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Nawaf Bou-Rabee

While variance reduction methods have shown great success in solving large scale optimization problems, many of them suffer from accumulated errors and, therefore, should periodically require the full gradient computation. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Kazusato Oko , Shunta Akiyama , Tomoya Murata , Taiji Suzuki