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This study investigates the variational posterior convergence rates of inverse problems for partial differential equations (PDEs) with parameters in Besov spaces $B_{pp}^\alpha$ ($p \geq 1$) which are modeled naturally in a Bayesian manner…

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We derive a novel variational expectation maximization approach based on truncated posterior distributions. Truncated distributions are proportional to exact posteriors within subsets of a discrete state space and equal zero otherwise. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-12 Jörg Lücke

We consider a system of semilinear partial differential equations (PDEs) with a nonlinearity depending on both the solution and its gradient. The Neumann boundary condition depends on the solution in a nonlinear manner. The uniform…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Khaled Bahlali , Brahim Boufoussi , Soufiane Mouchtabih

Physics-guided sampling with diffusion priors has recently shown strong performance in solving complex systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) from sparse observations. However, these methods are typically evaluated on benchmark…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Andrew Millard , Zheng Zhao , Henrik Pedersen

In this paper, we consider Fredlin-Wentzell type large deviation principle (LDP) of multidimensional reflected stochastic partial differential equations in a convex domain, allowing for oblique direction of reflection. To prove the LDP, a…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-03 Hong Shaopeng , Liu Xiangdong

This paper presents a unified Least-Squares framework for solving nonlinear partial differential equations by recasting the governing system as a residual minimisation problem. A Least-Squares functional is formulated and the corresponding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Fleurianne Bertrand , Maximilian Brodbeck , Tim Ricken , Henrik Schneider

We obtain approximate convexity principles for solutions to some classes of nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations in convex domains involving approximately concave nonlinearities. Furthermore, we provide some applications to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Claudia Bucur , Marco Squassina

Wave propagation problems have many applications in physics and engineering, and the stochastic effects are important in accurately modeling them due to the uncertainty of the media. This paper considers and analyzes a fully discrete finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Yukun Li , Shuonan Wu , Yulong Xing

We develop a solution theory for singular elliptic stochastic PDEs with fractional Laplacian, additive white noise and cubic non-linearity. The method covers the whole sub-critical regime. It is based on the Wilsonian renormalization group…

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We consider a unifying framework for stochastic control problem including the following features: partial observation, path-dependence (both with respect to the state and the control), and without any non-degeneracy condition on the…

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This paper is motivated by the problem of quantitatively bounding the convergence of adaptive control methods for stochastic systems to a stationary distribution. Such bounds are useful for analyzing statistics of trajectories and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Tyler Lekang , Andrew Lamperski

This paper is concerned with a shape optimization problem governed by a non-smooth PDE, i.e., the nonlinearity in the state equation is not necessarily differentiable. We follow the functional variational approach of [40] where the set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Livia Betz

In this paper we first study the penalization approximation of stochastic differential equations reflected in a domain which satisfies conditions (A) and (B) and prove that the sequence of solutions of the penalizing equations converges in…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Jiagang Ren , Jing Wu

This work concerns about forward-backward multivalued stochastic systems. First of all, we prove one average principle for general stochastic differential equations in the $L^{2p}$ ($p\geq 1$) sense. Moreover, for $p=1$ a convergence rate…

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Solving inverse and optimization problems over solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex spatial domains is a long-standing challenge. Here we introduce a method that parameterizes the solution using spectral…

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We propose a high-order finite element method for linear fourth-order elliptic problems that is both nodally bound-preserving and mass-conservative, based on a variational inequality formulation. The method admits an equivalent strictly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Jie Shen , Zuodong Wang

Many partial differential equations (PDEs) such as Navier--Stokes equations in fluid mechanics, inelastic deformation in solids, and transient parabolic and hyperbolic equations do not have an exact, primal variational structure. Recently,…

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We give a systematic method for discretizing Hamiltonian partial differential equations (PDEs) with constant symplectic structure, while preserving their energy exactly. The same method, applied to PDEs with constant dissipative structure,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-04 E. Celledoni , V. Grimm , R. I. McLachlan , D. I. McLaren , D. O'Neale , B. Owren , G. R. W. Quispel

This work establishes a general stochastic maximum principle for partially observed optimal control of semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations in a nonconvex control domain. The state evolves in a Hilbert space driven by a…

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We propose a nonlinear Discrete Duality Finite Volume scheme to approximate the solutions of drift diffusion equations. The scheme is built to preserve at the discrete level even on severely distorted meshes the energy / energy dissipation…

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