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In a separable real Hilbert space, we study the problem of minimizing a convex function with Lipschitz continuous gradient in the presence of noisy evaluations. To this end, we associate a stochastic Heavy Ball system, incorporating a…

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A scale-resolving simulation methodology that includes stochastic energy backscatter is incorporated into a proprietary block-structured compressible flow solver. Particular attention is devoted to the discretisation of the convective terms…

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The acceleration of gradient-based optimization methods is a subject of significant practical and theoretical importance, particularly within machine learning applications. While much attention has been directed towards optimizing within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Shi Chen , Qin Li , Oliver Tse , Stephen J. Wright

We develop a quantitative theory of stochastic homogenization for linear, uniformly parabolic equations with coefficients depending on space and time. Inspired by recent works in the elliptic setting, our analysis is focused on certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Scott Armstrong , Alexandre Bordas , Jean-Christophe Mourrat

We describe the numerical scheme for the discretization and solution of 2D elliptic equations with strongly varying piecewise constant coefficients arising in the stochastic homogenization of multiscale composite materials. An efficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Venera Khoromskaia , Boris N. Khoromskij , Felix Otto

We study distributed optimization algorithms for minimizing the average of \emph{heterogeneous} functions distributed across several machines with a focus on communication efficiency. In such settings, naively using the classical stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Ilqar Ramazanli , Han Nguyen , Hai Pham , Sashank J. Reddi , Barnabas Poczos

We consider systems of stochastic evolutionary equations of the $p$-Laplace type. We establish convergence rates for a finite-element based space-time approximation, where the error is measured in a suitable quasi-norm. Under natural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Dominic Breit , Martina Hofmanova , Sebastien Loisel

This paper establishes a complete homogenization theory for the one-dimensional parabolic equation with long-range correlated random potential: \[ \partial_t u_\varepsilon(t,x) = \frac{1}{2} \partial_{xx} u_\varepsilon(t,x) +…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Atef Lechiheb

We prove regularity and stochastic homogenization results for certain degenerate elliptic equations in nondivergence form. The equation is required to be strictly elliptic, but the ellipticity may oscillate on the microscopic scale and is…

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We present here a new stochastic modelling in the constitution of fluid flow reduced-order models. This framework introduces a spatially inhomogeneous random field to represent the unresolved small-scale velocity component. Such a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-20 Valentin Resseguier , Etienne Mémin , Dominique Heitz , Bertrand Chapron

Let $(\Omega, \mu)$ be a probability space endowed with an ergodic action, $\tau$ of $( {\mathbb R} ^n, +)$. Let $H(x,p; \omega)=H_\omega(x,p)$ be a smooth Hamiltonian on $T^* {\mathbb R} ^n$ parametrized by $\omega\in \Omega$ and such that…

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Block coordinate descent methods and stochastic subgradient methods have been extensively studied in optimization and machine learning. By combining randomized block sampling with stochastic subgradient methods based on dual averaging, we…

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We present a proof of qualitative stochastic homogenization for a nonconvex Hamilton-Jacobi equation. The new idea is to introduce a family of "sub-equations" and to control solutions of the original equation by the maximal subsolutions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-11 Scott N. Armstrong , Hung V. Tran , Yifeng Yu

The primary emphasis of this work is the development of a finite element based space-time discretization for solving the stochastic Lagrangian averaged Navier-Stokes (LANS-$\alpha$) equations of incompressible fluid turbulence with…

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We consider a wide range of regularized stochastic minimization problems with two regularization terms, one of which is composed with a linear function. This optimization model abstracts a number of important applications in artificial…

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In this paper, we introduce an unbiased gradient simulation algorithms for solving convex optimization problem with stochastic function compositions. We show that the unbiased gradient generated from the algorithm has finite variance and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Jose Blanchet , Donald Goldfarb , Garud Iyengar , Fengpei Li , Chaoxu Zhou

A family of exponential martingales of a stochastic Laplacian growth problem is proposed. Stochastic Laplacian growth describes a regularized interface dynamics in a two-fluid system, where the viscous fluid is incompressible at a large…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Oleg Alekseev

This paper rediscovers a classical homogenization result for a prototypical linear elliptic boundary value problem with periodically oscillating diffusion coefficient. Unlike classical analytical approaches such as asymptotic analysis,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Daniel Peterseim , Dora Varga , Barbara Verfürth

We define a stochastic variant of the proximal point algorithm in the general setting of nonlinear (separable) Hadamard spaces for approximating zeros of the mean of a stochastically perturbed monotone vector field and prove its convergence…

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