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The aim of this paper is to introduce several new particle representations for \textit{ergodic} McKean-Vlasov SDEs. We construct new algorithms by leveraging recent progress in weak convergence analysis of interacting particle system. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-18 H. AlRachid , Mireille Bossy , Cristiano Ricci , Lukasz Szpruch

In this article we consider recursive approximations of the smoothing distribution associated to partially observed stochastic differential equations (SDEs), which are observed discretely in time. Such models appear in a wide variety of…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-15 Jeremie Houssineau , Ajay Jasra , Sumeetpal S. Singh

This work focuses on the quantitative contraction rates for McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with multiplicative noise. Under suitable conditions on the coefficients of the SDE, this paper derives explicit quantitative…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Dan Noelck

In recent years, kernel density estimation has been exploited by computer scientists to model machine learning problems. The kernel density estimation based approaches are of interest due to the low time complexity of either O(n) or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2007-10-16 Yen-Jen Oyang , Darby Tien-Hao Chang , Yu-Yen Ou , Hao-Geng Hung , Chih-Peng Wu , Chien-Yu Chen

Based on the assumption of the existence and uniqueness of the invariant measure for McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations (MV-SDEs), a self-interacting process that depends only on the current and historical information of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Cui Yuanping , Li Xiaoyue

Estimating the density of a continuous random variable X has been studied extensively in statistics, in the setting where n independent observations of X are given a priori and one wishes to estimate the density from that. Popular methods…

Computation · Statistics 2021-09-09 Pierre L'Ecuyer , Florian Puchhammer

Given $iid$ observations from an unknown absolute continuous distribution defined on some domain $\Omega$, we propose a nonparametric method to learn a piecewise constant function to approximate the underlying probability density function.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-13 Dangna Li , Kun Yang , Wing Hung Wong

A method for making realistic estimates of the density of levels in even-even nuclei is presented making use of the Monte Carlo shell model (MCSM). The procedure follows three basic steps: (1) computation of the thermal energy with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 W. E. Ormand

In this article we develop a new sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) method for multilevel (ML) Monte Carlo estimation. In particular, the method can be used to estimate expectations with respect to a target probability distribution over an…

Computation · Statistics 2017-03-16 Alexandros Beskos , Ajay Jasra , Kody Law , Youssef Marzouk , Yan Zhou

The multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method is highly efficient for estimating expectations of a functional of a solution to a stochastic differential equation (SDE). However, MLMC estimators may be unstable and have a poor (noncanonical)…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-05-07 Christian Bayer , Chiheb Ben Hammouda , Raul Tempone

Monte Carlo methods represent the "de facto" standard for approximating complicated integrals involving multidimensional target distributions. In order to generate random realizations from the target distribution, Monte Carlo techniques use…

Computation · Statistics 2022-01-21 L. Martino , V. Elvira , D. Luengo , J. Corander

In this work we continue to investigate well-posedness for stable driven McKean-Vlasov SDEs with distributional interaction kernel following the approach introduced in [8]. We specifically focus on the impact of the Besov smoothness of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-22 P. -E Chaudru de Raynal , J. -F Jabir , S Menozzi

This paper presents new methodology for computationally efficient kernel density estimation. It is shown that a large class of kernels allows for exact evaluation of the density estimates using simple recursions. The same methodology can be…

Computation · Statistics 2019-11-12 David P. Hofmeyr

We consider the problem of multivariate density deconvolution where the distribution of a random vector needs to be estimated from replicates contaminated with conditionally heteroscedastic measurement errors. We propose a conceptually…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-29 Arkaprava Roy , Abhra Sarkar

The goal of this paper is to approximate several kinds of {\it Mckean-Vlasov SDEs} with {\it irregular coefficients} via weakly interacting particle systems. More precisely, propagation of chaos and convergence rate of Euler-Maruyama scheme…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Jianhai Bao , Xing Huang

We propose a multilevel Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for the Bayesian inference of random field parameters in PDEs using high-resolution data. Compared to existing multilevel MCMC methods, we additionally consider level-dependent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Pieter Vanmechelen , Geert Lombaert , Giovanni Samaey

In this paper, we implement a weak Milstein Scheme to simulate low-dimensional stochastic differential equations (SDEs). We prove that combining the antithetic multilevel Monte-Carlo (MLMC) estimator introduced by Giles and Szpruch with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Kristian Debrabant , Azadeh Ghasemifard , Nicky C. Mattsson

In this paper, we estimate the variance of two coupled paths derived with the Multilevel Monte Carlo method combined with the Euler Maruyama discretization scheme for the simulation of McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations with…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Ulises Botija-Munoz , Chenggui Yuan

This paper investigates the estimation of the interaction function for a class of McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations. The estimation is based on observations of the associated particle system at time $T$, considering the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Chiara Amorino , Denis Belomestny , Vytautė Pilipauskaitė , Mark Podolskij , Shi-Yuan Zhou

We present two fully probabilistic Euler schemes, one explicit and one implicit, for the simulation of McKean-Vlasov Stochastic Differential Equations (MV-SDEs) with drifts of super-linear growth and random initial condition. We provide a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-29 G. dos Reis , S. Engelhardt , G. Smith