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Studying the properties of stochastic noise to optimize complex non-convex functions has been an active area of research in the field of machine learning. Prior work has shown that the noise of stochastic gradient descent improves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Aurelien Lucchi , Frank Proske , Antonio Orvieto , Francis Bach , Hans Kersting

In this paper, we compute the Onsager-Machlup functional for distribution dependent SDEs driven by fractional Brownian motions with Hurst parameter $H\in (\frac{1}{4},1)$. In the case $ \frac{1}{4} < H < \frac{1}{2} $, the norm can be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Yanbin Zhu , Xiaomeng Jiang , Yong Li

In this work, a stochastic representation based on a physical transport principle is proposed to account for mesoscale eddy effects on the large-scale oceanic circulation. This stochastic framework arises from a decomposition of the…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 Long Li , Bruno Deremble , Noé Lahaye , Etienne Mémin

In this paper, a nonlinear 2D Optimal Control Problem (2DOCP) is considered. The quadratic performance index of a nonlinear cost function is endowed with the state and control functions. In this problem, the dynamic constraint of the system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Kourosh Parand , Sobhan Latifi , Mehdi Delkhosh , Mohammad M. Moayeri

Lagrangian Particle Tracking (LPT) enables practitioners to study various concepts in turbulence by measuring particle positions in flows of interest. This data is subject to measurement errors, and filtering techniques are applied to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-16 Griffin M. Kearney , Kasey M. Laurent , Reece V. Kearney

We study the large deviation behavior of a system of diffusing particles with a mean field interaction, described through a collection of stochastic differential equations, in which each particle is driven by a vanishing independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Amarjit Budhiraja , Michael Conroy

We investigate an example of noise-induced stabilization in the plane that was also considered in (Gawedzki, Herzog, Wehr 2010) and (Birrell, Herzog, Wehr 2011). We show that despite the deterministic system not being globally stable, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Avanti Athreya , Tiffany Kolba , Jonathan C. Mattingly

A simple variational Lagrangian is proposed for the time development of an arbitrary density matrix, employing the "factorization" of the density. Only the "kinetic energy" appears in the Lagrangian. The formalism applies to pure and mixed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Englman , A. Yahalom

The $L^p$ maximal inequalities for martingales are one of the classical results in the theory of stochastic processes. Here we establish the sharp moderate maximal inequalities for one-dimensional diffusion processes, which include the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Xian Chen , Yong Chen , Mumien Cheng , Chen Jia

This paper introduces a comprehensive extension of the path integral formalism to model stochastic processes with arbitrary multiplicative noise. To do so, It\^o diffusive process is generalized by incorporating a multiplicative noise term…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 F. S. Abril-Bermúdez , C. J. Quimbay , J. E. Trinidad-Segovia , M. A Sánchez-Granero

Using the Onsager-Machlup functional integral approach, we obtain the work distribution function and the distribution of the dissipated heat of a Brownian particle subjected to a confining harmonic potential and an oscillatory driving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-29 Bappa Saha , Sutapa Mukherji

First passage time plays a fundamental role in dynamical characterization of stochastic processes. Crucially, our current understanding on the problem is almost entirely relies on the theoretical formulations, which assume the processes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-01 Yuta Sakamoto , Takahiro Sakaue

The characterization of intermittency in turbulence has its roots in the K62 theory, and if no proper definition is to be found in the literature, statistical properties of intermittency were studied and models were developed in attempt to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-14 Roxane Letournel , Ludovic Goudenège , Rémi Zamansky , Aymeric Vié , Marc Massot

Diffusion with stochastic transport is investigated here when the random driving process is a very general Gaussian process, including Fractional Brownian motion. The purpose is the comparison with a deterministic PDE, which in certain…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Franco Flandoli , Francesco Russo

The phenomenon of an excitable system producing a pulse under external or internal stimulation may be interpreted as a stochastic escape problem. This work addresses this issue by examining the Morris-Lecar neural model driven by symmetric…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Yancai Liu , Rui Cai , Jinqiao Duan

Distribution-dependent stochastic dynamical systems arise widely in engineering and science. We consider a class of such systems which model the limit behaviors of interacting particles moving in a vector field with random fluctuations. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Wei Wei , Jianyu Hu

With the rapid increase of valuable observational, experimental and simulating data for complex systems, great efforts are being devoted to discovering governing laws underlying the evolution of these systems. However, the existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-03 Yang Li , Jinqiao Duan

In a high-frequency context, we investigate the efficient estimation of scaling and jump activity parameters for a stochastic differential equation driven by a L{\'e}vy process with both diffusion component and pure-jump component. We first…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Elise Bayraktar , Emmanuelle Clément

Score-based diffusion models generate samples from an unknown target distribution using a time-reversed diffusion process. While such models represent state-of-the-art approaches in industrial applications such as artificial image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Adrian Baule

A stochastic leap-frog algorithm for the numerical integration of Brownian motion stochastic differential equations with multiplicative noise is proposed and tested. The algorithm has a second-order convergence of moments in a finite time…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ji Qiang , Salman Habib