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In this paper, we are concerned with long-time behavior of Euler-Maruyama schemes associated with a range of regime-switching diffusion processes. The key contributions of this paper lie in that existence and uniqueness of numerical…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-24 Jianhai Bao , Jinghai Shao , Chenggui Yuan

We provide a criterion for establishing lower bounds on the rate of convergence in $f$-variation of a continuous-time ergodic Markov process to its invariant measure. The criterion consists of novel super- and submartingale conditions for…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Miha Brešar , Aleksandar Mijatović

We give an introduction to discrete functional analysis techniques for stationary and transient diffusion equations. We show how these techniques are used to establish the convergence of various numerical schemes without assuming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Jerome Droniou

In this work, a mode of convergence for measurable functions is introduced. A related notion of Cauchy sequence is given and it is proved that this notion of convergence is complete in the sense that Cauchy sequences converge. Moreover, the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Nuno J. Alves , João Paulos

It is by now well-known that one can recover a potential in the wave equation from the knowledge of the initial waves, the boundary data and the flux on a part of the boundary satisfying the Gamma-conditions of J.-L. Lions. We are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-21 Lucie Baudouin , Sylvain Ervedoza

In this paper, we establish smoothness of moments of the solutions of discrete coagulation-diffusion systems. As key assumptions, we suppose that the coagulation coefficients grow at most sub-linearly and that the diffusion coefficients…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Maxime Breden , Laurent Desvillettes , Klemens Fellner

Although generative diffusion models (GDMs) are widely used in practice, their theoretical foundations remain limited, especially concerning the impact of different discretization schemes applied to the underlying stochastic differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Emanuel Pfarr , Radu Timofte , Frank Werner

We are interested in the large-time behavior of solutions to finite volume discretizations of convection-diffusion equations or systems endowed with non-homogeneous Dirichlet and Neumann type boundary conditions. Our results concern various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Claire Chainais-Hillairet , Maxime Herda

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

We give necessary and sufficient conditions to characterize the convergence in distribution of a sequence of arbitrary random variables to a probability distribution which is the invariant measure of a diffusion process. This class of…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Seiichiro Kusuoka , Ciprian Tudor

Diffusion models have achieved great success in generating high-dimensional samples across various applications. While the theoretical guarantees for continuous-state diffusion models have been extensively studied, the convergence analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zikun Zhang , Zixiang Chen , Quanquan Gu

We are interested in the time discretization of stochastic differential equations with additive d-dimensional Brownian noise and L q -- L $\rho$ drift coefficient when the condition d $\rho$ + 2 q < 1, under which Krylov and R{\"o}ckner…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Benjamin Jourdain , Stéphane Menozzi

The aim of this paper is to study the behavior of the weighted empirical measures of the decreasing step Euler scheme of a one-dimensional diffusion process having multiple invariant measures. This situation can occur when the drift and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Vincent Lemaire

We study a Lagrangian numerical scheme for solution of a nonlinear drift diffusion equation of the form $\partial_t u = \partial_x(u \cdot c[\partial_x(h^\prime(u)+v)])$ on an interval. This scheme will consist of a spatio-temporal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Benjamin Söllner , Oliver Junge

This study deals with continuous limits of interacting one-dimensional diffusive systems, arising from stochastic distortions of discrete curves with various kinds of coding representations. These systems are essentially of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-09 Guy Fayolle , Cyril Furtlehner

We present an improved analysis of the Euler-Maruyama discretization of the Langevin diffusion. Our analysis does not require global contractivity, and yields polynomial dependence on the time horizon. Compared to existing approaches, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Wenlong Mou , Nicolas Flammarion , Martin J. Wainwright , Peter L. Bartlett

Diffusion models are a new class of generative models that revolve around the estimation of the score function associated with a stochastic differential equation. Subsequent to its acquisition, the approximated score function is then…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Giovanni Conforti , Alain Durmus , Marta Gentiloni Silveri

In this paper we look at the properties of limits of a sequence of real valued time inhomogeneous diffusions. When convergence is only in the sense of finite-dimensional distributions then the limit does not have to be a diffusion. However,…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-05-14 George Lowther

We examine the Langevin diffusion confined to a closed, convex domain $D\subset\mathbb{R}^d$, represented as a reflected stochastic differential equation. We introduce a sequence of penalized stochastic differential equations and prove that…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Tarika Mane , Amine Boukardagha

We study a class of diffusion processes arising from random perturbations of conservative Hamiltonian systems. Under a set of abstract hypotheses -- including basic structural assumptions on the Hamiltonian, a weak Lyapunov structure, and a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Shimaa Elesaely , David P. Herzog , Kyle L. Liss