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We prove a general criterion providing sufficient conditions under which a time-discretiziation of a given Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) is a uniform in time approximation of the SDE. The criterion is also, to a certain extent,…

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We prove that some discretization schemes for the 2D Navier-Stokes equations subject to a random perturbation converge in $L^2(\Omega)$. This refines previous results which only established the convergence in probability of these numerical…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Hakima Bessaih , Annie Millet

This paper aims to investigate the asymptotic error distribution of several numerical methods for stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) with multiplicative noise. Firstly, we give the limit distribution of the normalized error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Jialin Hong , Diancong Jin , Xu Wang

Discretization of continuous-time diffusion processes is a widely recognized method for sampling. However, the canonical Euler Maruyama discretization of the Langevin diffusion process, referred as Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm (ULA),…

Computation · Statistics 2021-07-28 Dao Nguyen , Xin Dang , Yixin Chen

We study the problem of sampling from a $d$-dimensional distribution with density $p(x)\propto e^{-f(x)}$, which does not necessarily satisfy good isoperimetric conditions. Specifically, we show that for any $L,M$ satisfying $LM\ge d\ge 5$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yuchen He , Chihao Zhang

We study the proximal sampler of Lee, Shen, and Tian (2021) and obtain new convergence guarantees under weaker assumptions than strong log-concavity: namely, our results hold for (1) weakly log-concave targets, and (2) targets satisfying…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Yongxin Chen , Sinho Chewi , Adil Salim , Andre Wibisono

In the present article we study strong approximation of solutions of scalar stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with bounded and $\alpha$-H\"older continuous drift coefficient and constant diffusion coefficient at time point $1$.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Simon Ellinger , Thomas Müller-Gronbach , Larisa Yaroslavtseva

We revisit the problem of sampling from a target distribution that has a smooth strongly log-concave density everywhere in $\mathbb R^p$. In this context, if no additional density information is available, the randomized midpoint…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Lu Yu , Avetik Karagulyan , Arnak Dalalyan

In this paper, we investigate the problem of strong approximation of the solutions of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) when the drift coefficient is given in integral form. We investigate its upper error bounds, in terms of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Paweł Przybyłowicz , Michał Sobieraj

Non-uniform sampling arises when an experimenter does not have full control over the sampling characteristics of the process under investigation. Moreover, it is introduced intentionally in algorithms such as Bayesian optimization and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-03 Stijn de Waele

This article investigates the weak approximation towards the invariant measure of semi-linear stochastic differential equations (SDEs) under non-globally Lipschitz coefficients. For this purpose, we propose a linear-theta-projected Euler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Chenxu Pang , Xiaojie Wang , Yue Wu

The development of efficient sampling algorithms catering to non-Euclidean geometries has been a challenging endeavor, as discretization techniques which succeed in the Euclidean setting do not readily carry over to more general settings.…

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We introduce an explicit adaptive Milstein method for stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with no commutativity condition. The drift and diffusion are separately locally Lipschitz and together satisfy a monotone condition. This method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Cónall Kelly , Gabriel Lord , Fandi Sun

In this article, we consider a stochastic PDE of parabolic type, driven by a space-time white-noise, and its numerical discretization in time with a semi-implicit Euler scheme. When the nonlinearity is assumed to be bounded, then a…

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We obtain non asymptotic concentration bounds for two kinds of stochastic approximations. We first consider the deviations between the expectation of a given function of the Euler scheme of some diffusion process at a fixed deterministic…

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In this paper, we examine the problem of sampling from log-concave distributions with (possibly) superlinear gradient growth under kinetic (underdamped) Langevin algorithms. Using a carefully tailored taming scheme, we propose two novel…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Iosif Lytras , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

In traditional work on numerical schemes for solving stochastic differential equations (SDEs), it is usually assumed that the coefficients are globally Lipschitz. This assumption has been used to establish a powerful analysis of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-15 Philip Protter , Lisha Qiu , Jaime San Martin

Piecewise $\alpha$-stable Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) processes arising in queue networks usually do not have an explicit dissipation, which makes the related numerical methods such as Euler-Maruyama (EM) scheme more difficult to analyze. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Xinghu Jin , Guodong Pang , Yu Wang , Lihu Xu

This paper aims to investigate the numerical approximation of semilinear non-autonomous stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) driven by multiplicative or additive noise. Such equations are more realistic than autonomous SPDEs…

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