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This paper addresses the problem of planning under uncertainty in large Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). Factored MDPs represent a complex state space using state variables and the transition model using a dynamic Bayesian network. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-10 C. Guestrin , D. Koller , R. Parr , S. Venkataraman

We propose and study a scheme combining the finite element method and machine learning techniques for the numerical approximations of coupled nonlinear forward-backward stochastic partial differential equations (FBSPDEs) with homogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Hasib Uddin Molla , Jinniao Qiu

In this work, the primary goal is to establish rigorous connection between the Fokker-Planck equation of neural networks with its microscopic model: the diffusion-jump stochastic process that captures the mean field behavior of collections…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Jian-guo Liu , Ziheng Wang , Yuan Zhang , Zhennan Zhou

In this paper, we study policy evaluation in continuous-time reinforcement learning (RL), where the state follows an unknown stochastic differential equation (SDE), but only discrete-time data are available. We first highlight that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Yuhua Zhu

In this paper, we address the so-called general Fokker-Planck control problem for discrete-time first-order linear systems. Unlike conventional treatments, we don't assume the distributions of the system states to be Gaussian. Instead, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Guangyu Wu , Anders Lindquist

The facilitated simple exclusion process (FEP) is a one-dimensional exclusion process with a dynamical constraint. We establish bounds on the mixing time of the FEP on the segment, with closed boundaries, and the circle. The FEP on these…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-01 James Ayre , Paul Chleboun

In many biological systems, chemical reactions or changes in a physical state are assumed to occur instantaneously. For describing the dynamics of those systems, Markov models that require exponentially distributed inter-event times have…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-06 Wasiur R. KhudaBukhsh , Hye-Won Kang , Eben Kenah , Grzegorz A. Rempala

The Fokker-Planck equations describe time evolution of probability densities of stochastic dynamical systems and are thus widely used to quantify random phenomena such as uncertainty propagation. For dynamical systems driven by non-Gaussian…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Xu Sun , Jinqiao Duan

A probabilistic description is essential for understanding growth processes far from equilibrium. In this paper, we compute time-dependent Probability Density Functions (PDFs) in order to investigate stochastic logistic and Gompertz models,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-12-08 Lucille-Marie Tenkès , Rainer Hollerbach , Eun-jin Kim

We extend the concept of self-consistency for the Fokker-Planck equation (FPE) to the more general McKean-Vlasov equation (MVE). While FPE describes the macroscopic behavior of particles under drift and diffusion, MVE accounts for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Zebang Shen , Zhenfu Wang

In this paper, we study the numerical schemes for the two-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation governing the probability density function of the tempered fractional Brownian motion. The main challenges of the numerical schemes come from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Xing Liu , Weihua Deng

We develop a mean-field approach for multicomponent stochastic spatially extended systems and use it to obtain a multivariate nonlinear self-consistent Fokker-Planck equation defining the probability density of the state of the system,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-16 Svetlana E. Kurushina , Valerii V. Maximov , Yurii M. Romanovskii

Continuous-time Markov chains associated to finite-volume discretization schemes of Fokker-Planck equations are constructed. Sufficient conditions under which quantitative exponential decay in the $\phi$-entropy and Wasserstein distance are…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Ansgar Jüngel , Katharina Schuh

This paper investigates a Stochastic Partial Differential Equation (SPDE) derived from the Fokker-Planck equation associated with Score-based Generative Models. We modify the standard Fokker-Planck equation to better represent practical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Junsu Seo

We study two schemes for a time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation with space- and time-dependent forcing in one space dimension. The first scheme is continuous in time and is discretized in space using a piecewise-linear Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Kim Ngan Le , William McLean , Kassem Mustapha

In this paper we consider stochastic Fokker-Planck Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), obtained as the mean-field limit of weakly interacting particle systems subjected to both independent (or idiosyncratic) and common Brownian noises.…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-17 François Delarue , Etienne Tanré , Raphaël Maillet

We introduce a new class of stochastic processes which are stationary, Markovian and characterized by an infinite range of time-scales. By transforming the Fokker-Planck equation of the process into a Schrodinger equation with an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabrizio Lillo , Salvatore Micciche' , Rosario N. Mantegna

As a counterpoint to classical stochastic particle methods for linear diffusion equations, we develop a deterministic particle method for the weighted porous medium equation (WPME) and prove its convergence on bounded time intervals. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Katy Craig , Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Matt Haberland , Olga Turanova

A time-stepping $L1$ scheme for solving a time fractional Fokker-Planck equation of order $\alpha \in (0, 1)$, with a general driving force, is investigated. A stability bound for the semi-discrete solution is obtained for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Kassem Mustapha , Omar M. Knio , Olivier P. Le Maître

We investigate the full functional form of the first passage time density (FPTD) of a tracer particle in a single-file diffusion (SFD) system whose population is: (i) homogeneous, i.e., all particles having the same diffusion constant and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-05-10 Lloyd P. Sanders , Tobias Ambjornsson