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The Frank-Wolfe algorithm is a popular method for minimizing a smooth convex function $f$ over a compact convex set $\mathcal{C}$. While many convergence results have been derived in terms of function values, hardly nothing is known about…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Jérôme Bolte , Cyrille W. Combettes , Édouard Pauwels

We propose and analyse a new type of fully discrete finite element approximation of a class of linear stochastic parabolic evolution equations with additive noise. Our discretization differs from previous ones in that we use a finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Øyvind Stormark Auestad , Geir-Arne Fuglstad , Espen Robstad Jakobsen , Annika Lang

Freidlin-Wentzell theory of large deviations can be used to compute the likelihood of extreme or rare events in stochastic dynamical systems via the solution of an optimization problem. The approach gives exponential estimates that often…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-17 Tobias Grafke , Tobias Schäfer , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

The analysis of a delayed generalized Burgers-Huxley equation (a non-linear advection-diffusion-reaction problem) with weakly singular kernels is carried out in this work. Moreover, numerical approximations are performed using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Sumit Mahajan , Arbaz Khan , Manil T. Mohan

We present analytical results for the lowest cumulants of a stochastic process described by a Fokker-Planck equation with nonlinear drift. We show that, in the limit of small fluctuations, the mean, the variance and the covariance of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric Lutz

A proof of convergence is given for semi- and full discretizations of mean curvature flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces. The numerical method proposed and studied here combines evolving finite elements, whose nodes determine the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

De la Cruz et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 128102 (2018); arXiv:1705.08683] studied a noise-induced transition in an oscillating stochastic population undergoing birth- and death-type reactions. They applied the Freidlin-Wentzell WKB…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Baruch Meerson , Naftali R. Smith

In this paper, we generalize the classical Freidlin-Wentzell's theorem for random perturbations of Hamiltonian systems. In stead of the two-dimensional standard Brownian motion, the coefficient for the noise term is no longer the identity…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Yichun Zhu

A Freidlin-Wentzell type large deviation principle is established for stochastic partial differential equations with slow and fast time-scales, where the slow component is a one-dimensional stochastic Burgers equation with small noise and…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-10 Xiaobin Sun , Ran Wang , Lihu Xu , Xue Yang

In this paper, we study an adaptive finite element method for a class of a nonlinear eigenvalue problems that may be of nonconvex energy functional and consider its applications to quantum chemistry. We prove the convergence of adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-15 H. Chen , X. Gong , L. He , A. Zhou

We study an additive-noise approximation to Keller-Segel-Dean-Kawasaki dynamics, which is proposed as an approximate model to the fluctuating hydrodynamics of chemotactically interacting particles around their mean-field limit. As such, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Adrian Martini , Avi Mayorcas

We introduce the parafermionic truncated Wigner approximation ($p$TWA), a semiclassical phase-space framework for simulating the nonequilibrium dynamics of lattice systems with fractional exchange statistics. The method extends truncated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-01 Javad Vahedi , Martin Garttner

We develop an energy-decreasing algorithm for the finite element approximation of two-dimensional ferronematic equilibrium states. The problem is formulated as the minimization of the harmonic energy of two two-dimensional vector fields,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Alexandre Ern , Ruma R. Maity

In this work we propose an efficient and accurate multi-scale optical simulation algorithm by applying a numerical version of slowly varying envelope approximation in FEM. Specifically, we employ the fast iterative method to quickly compute…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-03 Fan Xiao , Jingwei Wang , Zhongfei Xiong , Yuntian Chen

We consider the mathematical analysis and numerical approximation of a system of nonlinear partial differential equations that arises in models that have relevance to steady isochoric flows of colloidal suspensions. The symmetric velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Andrea Bonito , Vivette Girault , Diane Guignard , Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal , Endre Süli

The theory of stochastic approximations form the theoretical foundation for studying convergence properties of many popular recursive learning algorithms in statistics, machine learning and statistical physics. Large deviations for…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Henrik Hult , Adam Lindhe , Pierre Nyquist , Guo-Jhen Wu

Motivated by problems where the response is needed at select localized regions in a large computational domain, we devise a novel finite element discretization that results in exponential convergence at pre-selected points. The two key…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Murthy N. Guddati , Vladimir Druskin , Ali Vaziri Astaneh

Minimizing finite sums of functions is a central problem in optimization, arising in numerous practical applications. Such problems are commonly addressed using first-order optimization methods. However, these procedures cannot be used in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Marco Rando , Cheik Traoré , Cesare Molinari , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

This article studies typical dynamics and fluctuations for a slow-fast dynamical system perturbed by a small fractional Brownian noise. Based on an ergodic theorem with explicit rates of convergence, which may be of independent interest, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-20 Solesne Bourguin , Siragan Gailus , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

We present an abstract framework for analyzing the weak error of fully discrete approximation schemes for linear evolution equations driven by additive Gaussian noise. First, an abstract representation formula is derived for sufficiently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-17 M. Kovács , S. Larsson , F. Lindgren