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We address parameter estimation in second-order stochastic differential equations (SDEs), which are prevalent in physics, biology, and ecology. The second-order SDE is converted to a first-order system by introducing an auxiliary velocity…

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Estimating parameters of a diffusion process given continuous-time observations of the process via maximum likelihood approaches or, online, via stochastic gradient descent or Kalman filter formulations constitutes a well-established…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-17 Jan Albrecht , Sebastian Reich

We prove the convergence, in the small mass limit, of statistically invariant states for a class of semi-linear damped wave equations, perturbed by an additive Gaussian noise, both with Lipschitz-continuous and with polynomial…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Sandra Cerrai , Nathan Glatt-Holtz

We present an efficient finite difference method for the approximation of second derivatives, with respect to system parameters, of expectations for a class of discrete stochastic chemical reaction networks. The method uses a coupling of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-10-16 Elizabeth Skubak Wolf , David F. Anderson

Our main objective in this paper is to develop a second-order stochastic numerical method which generalizes the well-known deterministic TR-BDF2 scheme. Since most stochastic techniques used for approximating the solution of a stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Tomás Caraballo , Macarena Gómez-Mármol , Ignacio Roldán

In this paper, we propose and analyze a second order accurate (in both time and space) numerical scheme for the Poisson-Nernst-Planck-Navier-Stokes system, which describes the ion electro-diffusion in fluids. In particular, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Yuzhe Qin , Cheng Wang

The numerical evaluation of statistics plays a crucial role in statistical physics and its applied fields. It is possible to evaluate the statistics for a stochastic differential equation with Gaussian white noise via the corresponding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Jun Ohkubo

We study the small-mass limit, also known as the Smoluchowski-Kramers diffusion approximation (see \cite{kra} and \cite{smolu}), for a system of stochastic damped wave equations, whose solution is constrained to live in the unitary sphere…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Sandra Cerrai , Mengzi Xie

We propose a new algorithm for approximating the non-asymptotic second moment of the marginal likelihood estimate, or normalizing constant, provided by a particle filter. The computational cost of the new method is $O(M)$ per time step,…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-08-19 Svetoslav Kostov , Nick Whiteley

Researchers have employed variations of the Smoluchowski coagulation equation to model a wide variety of both organic and inorganic phenomena and with relatively few known analytical solutions, numerical solutions play an important role in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-30 Dustin D. Keck , David M. Bortz

The likelihood functions for discretely observed nonlinear continuous-time models based on stochastic differential equations are not available except for a few cases. Various parameter estimation techniques have been proposed, each with…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-17 Predrag Pilipovic , Adeline Samson , Susanne Ditlevsen

In this paper, an alternative approximation to the innovation method is introduced for the parameter estimation of diffusion processes from partial and noisy observations. This is based on a convergent approximation to the first two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-19 J. C. Jimenez

This paper introduces a family of recursively defined estimators of the parameters of a diffusion process. We use ideas of stochastic algorithms for the construction of the estimators. Asymptotic consistency of these estimators and…

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In this paper, two new stochastic algorithms for calculating parametric derivatives of the solution to the Smoluchowski coagulation equation are presented. It is assumed that the coagulation kernel is dependent on these parameters. The new…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-08 Peter L. W. Man , James R. Norris , Ismael F. Bailleul , Markus Kraft

In this paper, we present a novel explicit second order scheme with one step for solving the forward backward stochastic differential equations, with the Crank-Nicolson method as a specific instance within our proposed framework. We first…

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We study the small mass limit of the equation describing planar motion of a charged particle of a small mass $\mu$ in a force field, containing a magnetic component, perturbed by a stochastic term. We regularize the problem by adding a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Sandra Cerrai , Jan Wehr , Yichun Zhu

In this paper, we study the quasi-potential for a general class of damped semilinear stochastic wave equations. We show that, as the density of the mass converges to zero, the infimum of the quasi-potential with respect to all possible…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-25 Sandra Cerrai , Michael Salins

We study a class of systems of stochastic differential equations describing diffusive phenomena. The Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation is used to describe their dynamics in the small mass limit. Our systems have arbitrary state-dependent…

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In stochastic variational inference, use of the reparametrization trick for the multivariate Gaussian gives rise to efficient updates for the mean and Cholesky factor of the covariance matrix, which depend on the first order derivative of…

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