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We study regularizing effects of nonlinear stochastic perturbations for fully nonlinear PDE. More precisely, path-by-path $L^{\infty}$ bounds for the second derivative of solutions to such PDE are shown. These bounds are expressed as…

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We propose the superiorization of incremental algorithms for tomographic image reconstruction. The resulting methods follow a better path in its way to finding the optimal solution for the maximum likelihood problem in the sense that they…

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We consider the problem of estimating a probability distribution that maximizes the entropy while satisfying a finite number of moment constraints, possibly corrupted by noise. Based on duality of convex programming, we present a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Tobias Sutter , David Sutter , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , John Lygeros

The Ito-Stratonovich dilemma is revisited from the perspective of the interpretation of Stratonovich calculus using shot noise. Over the long time scales of the displacement of an observable, the principal issue is how to deal with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-30 W. Moon , J. S. Wettlaufer

We prove gradient estimates for solutions of the oblique derivative problem for a large class of elliptic and parabolic quasilinear PDEs. In particular, we expand on previous work of the author using a maximum principle argument. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Gary M. Lieberman

Differential equations perturbed by multiplicative fractional Brownian motions are considered. Depending on the value of the Hurst parameter $H$, the resulting equation is pathwise viewed as an ODE, YDE, or RDE. In all three regimes we show…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Konstantinos Dareiotis , Máté Gerencsér

In this paper we develop a variational method for the Loewner equation in higher dimensions. As a result we obtain a version of Pontryagin's maximum principle from optimal control theory for the Loewner equation in several complex…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2014-02-28 Oliver Roth

This paper is concerned with the partial information optimal control problem of wa controlled forward-backward stochastic differential equation of jump diffusion with correlated noises between the system and the observation. For this type…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Qingxin Meng

Given a discrete stochastic process, for example a chemical reaction system or a birth and death process, we often want to find a continuous stochastic approximation so that the techniques of stochastic differential equations may be brought…

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Stochastic evolution equations with compensated Poisson noise are considered in the variational approach with monotone and coercive coefficients. Here the Poisson noise is assumed to be time-homogeneous with $\sigma$-finite intensity…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Sima Mehri , Erfan Salavati , Bijan Z. Zangeneh

To define oscillatory movements of securities market, we put in the non-local extension of Ito- equation for wavelet-images of random processes. It is proposed an algorithm of creation of evolutionary equation and a model of prediction of…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2010-08-02 A. M. Avdeenko

We show existence and pathwise uniqueness of probabilistically strong solutions to a pseudomonotone stochastic evolution problem on a bounded domain $D\subseteq\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\in\mathbb{N}$, with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Kerstin Schmitz , Aleksandra Zimmermann

The main contributions of this paper are three fold. First, our primary concern is to investigate a class of stochastic recursive delayed control problems which arise naturally with sound backgrounds but have not been well-studied yet. For…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-06 Li Chen , Jianhui Huang

Both for the theoretical and practical treatment of Inverse Problems, the modeling of the noise is a crucial part. One either models the measurement via a deterministic worst-case error assumption or assumes a certain stochastic behavior of…

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This paper provides an existence-and-uniqueness theorem characterizing the stochastic integral with respect to a Wiener process. The integral is represented as a mapping from the space of measurable and adapted pathwise locally integrable…

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Using the path integral representation of the non-equilibrium dynamics, we compute the most probable path between arbitrary starting and final points, followed by an active particle driven by persistent noise. We focus our attention on the…

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We analyze a stochastic approximation algorithm for decision-dependent problems, wherein the data distribution used by the algorithm evolves along the iterate sequence. The primary examples of such problems appear in performative prediction…

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Distributed algorithms for solving additive or consensus optimization problems commonly rely on first-order or proximal splitting methods. These algorithms generally come with restrictive assumptions and at best enjoy a linear convergence…

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The maximum likelihood approach is adapted to the problem of estimation of drift and diffusion functions of stochastic processes from measured time series. We reconcile a previously devised iterative procedure [Kleinhans et al., Physics…

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Motivated by a problem of optimal harvesting of natural resources, we study a control problem for Volterra type dynamics driven by time-changed L\'evy noises, which are in general not Markovian. To exploit the nature of the noise, we make…

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