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This paper proposes a new model for individuals movement in ecology. The movement process is defined as a solution to a stochastic differential equation whose drift is the gradient of a multimodal potential surface. This offers a new…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Pierre Gloaguen , Marie-Pierre Etienne , Sylvain Le Corff

English version of abstract: The dynamic optimization problems treated by the calculus of variations are usually solved with the help of the 2nd order Euler-Lagrange differential equations. These equations are, generally speaking,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-02 Paulo D. F. Gouveia , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this article, we study a weighted particle representation for a class of stochastic partial differential equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The locations and weights of the particles satisfy an infinite system of stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Dan Crisan , Christopher Janjigian , Thomas G. Kurtz

There is recent interest in finding a potential formulation for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (SPDEs). The rationale behind this idea lies in obtaining all the dynamical information of the system under study from one single…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Munoz , J. Ojeda , D. Sierra , T. Soldovieri

This paper provides a unifying theoretical framework for stochastic optimization algorithms by means of a latent stochastic variational problem. Using techniques from stochastic control, the solution to the variational problem is shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Philippe Casgrain

We derive novel algorithms for optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations describing multiscale particle dynamics, including non-local integral terms representing interactions between particles. In particular, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Mildred Aduamoah , Benjamin D. Goddard , John W. Pearson , Jonna C. Roden

We construct solutions to the randomly-forced Navier--Stokes--Poisson system in periodic three-dimensional domains or in the whole three-dimensional Euclidean space. These solutions are weak in the sense of PDEs and also weak in the sense…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-04 Donatella Donatelli , Pierangelo Marcati , Prince Romeo Mensah

Increasingly larger data sets of processes in space and time ask for statistical models and methods that can cope with such data. We show that the solution of a stochastic advection-diffusion partial differential equation provides a…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-02-18 Fabio Sigrist , Hans R. Künsch , Werner A. Stahel

We study a general class of singular degenerate parabolic stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) which include, in particular, the stochastic porous medium equations and the stochastic fast diffusion equation. We propose a fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Ľubomír Baňas , Benjamin Gess , Christian Vieth

This article considers the variational wave equation with viscosity and transport noise as a system of three coupled nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations. We prove pathwise global existence, uniqueness, and temporal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Peter H. C. Pang

Time-varying stochastic optimization problems frequently arise in machine learning practice (e.g. gradual domain shift, object tracking, strategic classification). Although most problems are solved in discrete time, the underlying process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Subha Maity , Debarghya Mukherjee , Moulinath Banerjee , Yuekai Sun

In general, adding a stochastic perturbation to a differential equation possessing an invariant manifold destroys the invariance as far as the It\^o formalism is used. In this article, we propose an invariantization method for perturbations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Jacky Cresson , Yasmina Kheloufi , Khadra Nachi

In this note we provide conditions for local invariance of finite dimensional submanifolds for solutions to stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) in the framework of the variational approach. For this purpose, we provide a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Rajeev Bhaskaran , Stefan Tappe

This paper investigates abstract integro-differential hyperbolic equations, focusing on the probabilistic representation of their solutions. Our analysis is based on fractional derivatives and non-local operators, which are powerful tools…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Alessandro De Gregorio , Roberto Garra

Doubly nonlinear stochastic evolution equations are considered. Upon assuming the additive noise to be rough enough, we prove the existence of probabilistically weak solutions of Friedrichs type and study their uniqueness in law. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Carlo Orrieri , Luca Scarpa , Ulisse Stefanelli

We consider one-dimensional stochastic differential equations with a boundary condition, driven by a Poisson process. We study existence and uniqueness of solutions and the absolute continuity of the law of the solution. In the case when…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aureli Alabert , Miguel A. Marmolejo

This note deals with existence and uniqueness of (variational) solutions to the following type of stochastic partial differential equations on a Hilbert space H dX(t) = A(t,X(t))dt + B(t,X(t))dW(t) + h(t) dG(t) where A and B are random…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Michael Röckner , Yi Wang

We are concerned with optimization in a broad sense through the lens of solving variational inequalities (VIs) -- a class of problems that are so general that they cover as particular cases minimization of functions, saddle-point (minimax)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Pavel Dvurechensky , Andrea Ebner , Johannes Carl Schnebel , Shimrit Shtern , Mathias Staudigl

This paper is a survey of methods for solving smooth (strongly) monotone stochastic variational inequalities. To begin with, we give the deterministic foundation from which the stochastic methods eventually evolved. Then we review methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Aleksandr Beznosikov , Boris Polyak , Eduard Gorbunov , Dmitry Kovalev , Alexander Gasnikov

We introduce a stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) with elliptic operator in divergence form, with measurable and bounded coefficients and driven by space-time white noise. Such SPDEs could be used in mathematical modelling of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Mounir Zili , Eya Zougar