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Posterior sampling in high-dimensional spaces using generative models holds significant promise for various applications, including but not limited to inverse problems and guided generation tasks. Despite many recent developments,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-04 Vishal Purohit , Matthew Repasky , Jianfeng Lu , Qiang Qiu , Yao Xie , Xiuyuan Cheng

Models and methods that are able to accurately and efficiently predict the flows of low-speed rarefied gases are in high demand, due to the increasing ability to manufacture devices at micro and nano scales. One such model and method is a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Benjamin Collyer , Colm Connaughton , Duncan Lockerby

High-quality nanomechanical oscillators can sensitively probe force, mass, or displacement in experiments bridging the gap between the classical and quantum domain. Dynamics of these stochastic systems is inherently determined by the…

While low-precision optimization has been widely used to accelerate deep learning, low-precision sampling remains largely unexplored. As a consequence, sampling is simply infeasible in many large-scale scenarios, despite providing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruqi Zhang , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Christopher De Sa

It is a big challenge in the analysis of experimental data to disentangle the unavoidable measurement noise from the intrinsic dynamical noise. Here we present a general operational method to extract measurement noise from stochastic time…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-01-01 Pedro G. Lind , Maria Haase , Frank Böttcher , Joachim Peinke , David Kleinhans , Rudolf Friedrich

We apply the compressive sensing lattice dynamics (CSLD) method to calculate phonon dispersion for crystalline solids. While existing methods such as frozen phonon, small displacement, and linear response are routinely applied for phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-25 Fei Zhou , Babak Sadigh , Daniel Aberg , Yi Xia , Vidvuds Ozolins

Robust controllers that stabilize dynamical systems even under disturbances and noise are often formulated as solutions of nonsmooth, nonconvex optimization problems. While methods such as gradient sampling can handle the nonconvexity and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Steffen W. R. Werner , Michael L. Overton , Benjamin Peherstorfer

This paper focuses on systems of nonlinear second-order stochastic differential equations with multi-scales. The motivation for our study stems from mathematical physics and statistical mechanics, for examples, Langevin dynamics and…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Nhu N. Nguyen , George Yin

In this article, we focus on the sampling of the configurational Gibbs-Boltzmann distribution, that is, the calculation of averages of functions of the position coordinates of a molecular $N$-body system modelled at constant temperature. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Benedict Leimkuhler , Charles Matthews

We propose a sampling method based on an ensemble approximation of second order Langevin dynamics. The log target density is appended with a quadratic term in an auxiliary momentum variable and damped-driven Hamiltonian dynamics introduced;…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Ziming Liu , Andrew M. Stuart , Yixuan Wang

Stochastic thermostats based on the Langevin equation, in which a system is coupled to an external heat bath, are popular methods for temperature control in molecular dynamics simulations due to their ergodicity and their ease of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Mahdi Hijazi , David M. Wilkins , Michele Ceriotti

We study parallel sampling from high-dimensional strongly log-concave distributions. Langevin-based samplers converge rapidly in continuous time, but their discretizations are typically sequential and often require polynomially many steps…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Jaideep Mahajan , Kaihong Zhang , Feng Liang , Jingbo Liu

Using experiments on a colloidal particle trapped in an optical tweezer, we confirm a recent proposal to increase the effective mobility or clock rate of systems described by Langevin dynamics, by simultaneously scaling deterministic forces…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-05 Prithviraj Basak , Stephen Whitelam , John Bechhoefer

In this paper, we consider an unconstrained stochastic optimization problem where the objective function exhibits high-order smoothness. Specifically, we propose a new stochastic first-order method (SFOM) with multi-extrapolated momentum,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Chuan He

Diffusion models have recently attained significant interest within the community owing to their strong performance as generative models. Furthermore, its application to inverse problems have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Hyungjin Chung , Byeongsu Sim , Jong Chul Ye

In this work, we consider a sensor selection drawn at random by a sampling with replacement policy for a linear time-invariant dynamical system subject to process and measurement noise. We employ the Kalman filter to estimate the state of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Christopher I. Calle , Shaunak D. Bopardikar

Scalable sampling of molecular states in thermodynamic equilibrium is a long-standing challenge in statistical physics. Boltzmann generators tackle this problem by pairing normalizing flows with importance sampling to obtain uncorrelated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Charlie B. Tan , Avishek Joey Bose , Chen Lin , Leon Klein , Michael M. Bronstein , Alexander Tong

We propose a novel method for sampling from unnormalized Boltzmann densities based on a probability flow ordinary differential equation (ODE) derived from linear stochastic interpolants. The key innovation of our approach is the use of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Chenguang Duan , Yuling Jiao , Gabriele Steidl , Christian Wald , Jerry Zhijian Yang , Ruizhe Zhang

We consider stochastic approximations of sampling algorithms, such as Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics (SGLD) and the Random Batch Method (RBM) for Interacting Particle Dynamcs (IPD). We observe that the noise introduced by the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Aniket Das , Dheeraj Nagaraj , Anant Raj

The Langevin algorithm is a classic method for sampling from a given pdf in a real space. In its basic version, it only requires knowledge of the gradient of the log-density, also called the score function. However, in deep learning, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Aapo Hyvärinen