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The rates of strong convergence for various approximation schemes are investigated for a class of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) which involve a random time change given by an inverse subordinator. SDEs to be considered are unique…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Sixian Jin , Kei Kobayashi

The paper establishes the strong convergence rates of a spatio-temporal full discretization of the stochastic wave equation with nonlinear damping in dimension one and two. We discretize the SPDE by applying a spectral Galerkin method in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Meng Cai , David Cohen , Xiaojie Wang

Underdamped Langevin Monte Carlo (ULMC) is an algorithm used to sample from unnormalized densities by leveraging the momentum of a particle moving in a potential well. We provide a novel analysis of ULMC, motivated by two central questions:…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Matthew Zhang , Sinho Chewi , Mufan Bill Li , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Murat A. Erdogdu

We study the quantitative convergence of drift-diffusion PDEs that arise as Wasserstein gradient flows of linearly convex functions over the space of probability measures on ${\mathbb R}^d$. In this setting, the objective is in general not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Lénaïc Chizat , Maria Colombo , Xavier Fernández-Real

Discretized Langevin diffusions are efficient Monte Carlo methods for sampling from high dimensional target densities that are log-Lipschitz-smooth and (strongly) log-concave. In particular, the Euclidean Langevin Monte Carlo sampling…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-12 Kelvin Shuangjian Zhang , Gabriel Peyré , Jalal Fadili , Marcelo Pereyra

We introduce a lattice random walk discretisation scheme for stochastic differential equations (SDEs) that samples binary or ternary increments at each step, suppressing complex drift and diffusion computations to simple 1 or 2 bit random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Samuel Duffield , Maxwell Aifer , Denis Melanson , Zach Belateche , Patrick J. Coles

This paper explores the rates of convergence of solutions for multivariate stochastic differential equations (SDEs) driven by L\'evy processes within the small-time stable domain of attraction (DoA). Explicit bounds are derived for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Jorge González Cázares , David Kramer-Bang

We provide some non asymptotic bounds, with explicit constants, that measure the rate of convergence, in expected Wasserstein distance, of the empirical measure associated to an i.i.d. $N$-sample of a given probability distribution on…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Nicolas Fournier

Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics (SGLD) is a popular variant of Stochastic Gradient Descent, where properly scaled isotropic Gaussian noise is added to an unbiased estimate of the gradient at each iteration. This modest change allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Maxim Raginsky , Alexander Rakhlin , Matus Telgarsky

We present a criterion for uniform in time convergence of the weak error of the Euler scheme for Stochastic Differential equations (SDEs). The criterion requires i) exponential decay in time of the space-derivatives of the semigroup…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-28 D. Crisan , P. Dobson , M. Ottobre

This paper investigates the robust optimal control of sampled-data stochastic systems with multiplicative noise and distributional ambiguity. We consider a class of discrete-time optimal control problems where the controller \emph{jointly}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Chung-Han Hsieh

In this paper, we study the stability of various difference approximations of the Euler-Korteweg equations. This system of evolution PDEs is a classical isentropic Euler system perturbed by a dispersive (third order) term. The Euler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Pascal Noble , Jean-Paul Vila

In this paper, we develop a novel argument, the non-autonomous approximation method, to seek the asymptotic limits of the fully coupled multi-scale McKean-Vlasov stochastic systems with irregular coefficients, which, as summarized in…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Yuewen Hou , Yun Li , Longjie Xie

In the recent article [Hairer, M., Hutzenthaler, M., Jentzen, A., Loss of regularity for Kolmogorov equations, Ann. Probab. 43 (2015), no. 2, 468--527] it has been shown that there exist stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Arnulf Jentzen , Thomas Müller-Gronbach , Larisa Yaroslavtseva

Langevin algorithms are gradient descent methods augmented with additive noise, and are widely used in Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling, optimization, and machine learning. In recent years, the non-asymptotic analysis of Langevin…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Yuping Zheng , Andrew Lamperski

Recently, it has been shown in [Hairer, M., Hutzenthaler, M., Jentzen, A., Loss of regularity for Kolmogorov equations, Ann. Probab. 43, 2 (2015), 468--527] that there exists a system of stochastic differential equations (SDE) on the time…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Larisa Yaroslavtseva

We give a new take on the error analysis of approximations of stochastic differential equations (SDEs), utilizing and developing the stochastic sewing lemma of L\^e (2020). This approach allows one to exploit regularization by noise effects…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Oleg Butkovsky , Konstantinos Dareiotis , Máté Gerencsér

This paper proposes an adaptive timestep construction for an Euler-Maruyama approximation of the ergodic SDEs with a drift which is not globally Lipschitz over an infinite time interval. If the timestep is bounded appropriately, we show not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Wei Fang , Michael B. Giles

We discrete the ergodic semilinear stochastic partial differential equations in space dimension $d \leq 3$ with additive noise, spatially by a spectral Galerkin method and temporally by an exponential Euler scheme. It is shown that both the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Ziheng Chen , Siqing Gan , Xiaojie Wang

The problem of efficiently generating random samples from high-dimensional and non-log-concave posterior measures arising from nonlinear regression problems is considered. Extending investigations from arXiv:2009.05298, local and global…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Jan Bohr , Richard Nickl
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