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We introduce a distributionally robust maximum likelihood estimation model with a Wasserstein ambiguity set to infer the inverse covariance matrix of a $p$-dimensional Gaussian random vector from $n$ independent samples. The proposed model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Viet Anh Nguyen , Daniel Kuhn , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

We develop a unified PDE-probabilistic framework for pointwise gradient and Hessian estimates of Markov semigroups associated with stochastic differential equations with singular and unbounded coefficients. Under mild local structural…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Pengcheng Xia , Longjie Xie , Xicheng Zhang

In this paper, concerning SDEs with H\"older continuous drifts, which are merely dissipative at infinity, and SDEs with piecewise continuous drifts, we investigate the strong law of large numbers and the central limit theorem for underlying…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Jianhai Bao , Jiaqing Hao

We provide an explicit rigorous derivation of a diffusion limit - a stochastic differential equation with additive noise - from a deterministic skew-product flow. This flow is assumed to exhibit time-scale separation and has the form of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-27 I. Melbourne , A. M. Stuart

Wave propagation problems have many applications in physics and engineering, and the stochastic effects are important in accurately modeling them due to the uncertainty of the media. This paper considers and analyzes a fully discrete finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Yukun Li , Shuonan Wu , Yulong Xing

We study the quantitative homogenization of linear second order elliptic equations in non-divergence form with highly oscillating periodic diffusion coefficients and with large drifts, in the so-called ``centered'' setting where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Wenjia Jing , Yiping Zhang

In this paper, we establish the law of the iterated logarithm for a wide class of non-stationary, continuous-time Markov processes evolving on Polish spaces. Specifically, our result applies to certain additive functionals of processes…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Dawid Czapla , Sander C. Hille , Katarzyna Horbacz , Hanna Wojewódka-Ściążko

In this paper, we deal with a class of time-homogeneous continuous-time Markov processes with transition probabilities bearing a nonparametric uncertainty. The uncertainty is modeled by considering perturbations of the transition…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Sven Fuhrmann , Michael Kupper , Max Nendel

Recently, a Wasserstein-type distance for Gaussian mixture models has been proposed. However, that framework can only be generalized to identifiable mixtures of general elliptically contoured distributions whose components come from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Keyu Chen , Zetian Wang , Yunxin Zhang

Under general assumptions on the target distribution $p^\star$, we establish a sharp Lipschitz regularity theory for flow-matching vector fields and diffusion-model scores, with optimal dependence on time and dimension. As applications, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Arthur Stéphanovitch

We investigate contraction of the Wasserstein distances on $\mathbb{R}^d$ under Gaussian smoothing. It is well known that the heat semigroup is exponentially contractive with respect to the Wasserstein distances on manifolds of positive…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Hong-Bin Chen , Jonathan Niles-Weed

We study stability, long-time behavior and moment estimates for stochastic evolution equations with additive Wiener noise and with singular drift given by a divergence type quasilinear diffusion operator which may not necessarily exhibit a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Florian Seib , Wilhelm Stannat , Jonas M. Tölle

We estimate contrasts $\int_0 ^1 \rho(F^{-1}(u)-G^{-1}(u))du$ between two continuous distributions $F$ and $G$ on $\mathbb R$ such that the set $\{F=G\}$ is a finite union of intervals, possibly empty or $\mathbb{R}$. The non-negative…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Philippe Berthet , Jean-Claude Fort

We analyze monotone difference schemes for strongly degenerate convection-diffusion equations in one spatial dimension. These nonlinear equations are well-posed within a class of (discontinuous) entropy solutions. We prove that the L1…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Kenneth H. Karlsen , Nils Henrik Risebro , Erlend B. Storrøsten

Explicit calculations in dimension one show for Schur stable autoregressive processes with standard Gaussian noise that the ergodic convergence in the Wasserstein-$2$ distance is essentially given by the sum of the mean, which decays…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Gerardo Barrera , Paulo Henrique da Costa , Michael A. Högele

We investigate the problem of quantifying contraction coefficients of Markov transition kernels in Kantorovich ($L^1$ Wasserstein) distances. For diffusion processes, relatively precise quantitative bounds on contraction rates have recently…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-22 Andreas Eberle , Mateusz B. Majka

We study a system of drift-diffusion PDEs for a potentially infinite number of incompressible phases, subject to a joint pointwise volume constraint. Our analysis is based on the interpretation as a collection of coupled Wasserstein…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Clément Cancès , Daniel Matthes , Ismael Medina , Bernhard Schmitzer

We solve constrained optimal transport problems in which the marginal laws are given by the laws of solutions of stochastic differential equations (SDEs). We consider SDEs with irregular coefficients, making only minimal regularity…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Michaela Hitz , Benjamin A. Robinson

The smooth 1-Wasserstein distance (SWD) $W_1^\sigma$ was recently proposed as a means to mitigate the curse of dimensionality in empirical approximation while preserving the Wasserstein structure. Indeed, SWD exhibits parametric convergence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Ritwik Sadhu , Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato

The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance quantifies discrepancy between metric measure spaces and provides a natural framework for aligning heterogeneous datasets. Alas, as exact computation of GW alignment is NP hard, entropic regularization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Gabriel Rioux , Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato