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Many biological processes, from cell division to viral lysis, are triggered when an internal stochastic variable reaches a threshold. Here we introduce Branching under First-Passage Resetting, a general framework in which replication events…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-19 Aanjaneya Kumar , James Holehouse

The mean completion time of a stochastic process may be rendered finite and minimised by a judiciously chosen restart protocol, which may either be stochastic or deterministic. Here we study analytically an arbitrary stochastic search…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-14 Kabir Husain , Sandeep Krishna

We prove a central limit theorem for the momentum distribution of a particle undergoing an unbiased spatially periodic random forcing at exponentially distributed times without friction. The start is a linear Boltzmann equation for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jeremy Clark , Christian Maes

This paper focuses on the regularization of backward time-fractional diffusion problem on unbounded domain. This problem is well-known to be ill-posed, whence the need of a regularization method in order to recover stable approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Walter Simo Tao Lee

We introduce an auxiliary technique, called residual nudging, to the particle filter to enhance its performance in cases that it performs poorly. The main idea of residual nudging is to monitor, and if necessary, adjust the residual norm of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2013-06-03 Xiaodong Luo , Ibrahim Hoteit

We present a general theoretical framework for group resetting dynamics in a potential landscape. While traditional resetting models typically focus on a single particle, we consider a group of particles whose collective dynamics govern the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-03 Juhee Lee , Seong-Gyu Yang , Hye Jin Park , Ludvig Lizana

Resetting a stochastic process has been shown to expedite the completion time of some complex tasks, such as finding a target for the first time. Here we consider the cost of resetting by associating to each reset a cost, which is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-13 John C. Sunil , Richard A. Blythe , Martin R. Evans , Satya N. Majumdar

We consider the problem of stopping a diffusion process with a payoff functional that renders the problem time-inconsistent. We study stopping decisions of naive agents who reoptimize continuously in time, as well as equilibrium strategies…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-07-15 Yu-Jui Huang , Adrien Nguyen-Huu , Xun Yu Zhou

Consider a species whose population density solves the steady diffusive logistic equation in a heterogeneous environment modeled with the help of a spatially non constant coefficient standing for a resources distribution in a given box. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-25 Idriss Mazari , Grégoire Nadin , Yannick Privat

We study the Brownian motion of a classical particle in one-dimensional inhomogeneous environments where the transition probabilities follow quasiperiodic or aperiodic distributions. Exploiting an exact correspondence with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Igloi , L. Turban , H. Rieger

We first describe a general class of optimization problems that describe many natural, economic, and statistical phenomena. After noting the existence of a conserved quantity in a transformed coordinate system, we outline several instances…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-03 David Rushing Dewhurst

Stochastic resetting is a rapidly developing topic in the field of stochastic processes and their applications. It denotes the occasional reset of a diffusing particle to its starting point and effects, inter alia, optimal first-passage…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-25 C. Di Bello , A. V. Chechkin , A. K. Hartmann , Z. Palmowski , R. Metzler

We consider stochastic control with discretionary stopping for the drift of a diffusion process over an infinite time horizon. The objective is to choose a control process and a stopping time to minimize the expectation of a convex terminal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Václav E. Beneš , Georgy Gaitsgori , Ioannis Karatzas

In this paper, we analyze the mean first passage time (MFPT) for a single Brownian particle to find a stochastically-gated target under the additional condition that the position of the particle is reset to a fixed position $\x_r$ at a rate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Paul C Bressloff

This paper investigates a singular stochastic control problem for a multi-dimensional regime-switching diffusion process confined in an unbounded domain. The objective is to maximize the total expected discounted rewards from exerting the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Qingshuo Song , Chao Zhu

We study the dynamics of an overdamped Brownian particle subjected to Poissonian stochastic resetting in a nonthermal bath, characterized by a Poisson white noise and a Gaussian noise. Applying the renewal theory we find an exact analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-13 Koushik Goswami , Rajarshi Chakrabarti

We investigate an optimization problem that arises when working within the paradigm of Data-Driven Computational Mechanics. In the context of the diffusion-reaction problem, such an optimization problem seeks for the continuous primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Pedro B. Bazon , Cristian G. Gebhardt , Gustavo C. Buscaglia , Roberto F. Ausas

In a classical optimal stopping problem the aim is to maximize the expected value of a functional of a diffusion evaluated at a stopping time. This note considers optimal stopping problems beyond this paradigm. We study problems in which…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Vicky Henderson , David Hobson , Matthew Zeng

We revisit the Reinforce policy gradient algorithm from the literature. Note that this algorithm typically works with cost returns obtained over random length episodes obtained from either termination upon reaching a goal state (as with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shalabh Bhatnagar

Diffusion on complex networks is often modeled as a stochastic process. Yet, recent work on strategic diffusion emphasizes the decision power of agents and treats diffusion as a strategic problem. Here we study the computational aspects of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Marcin Waniek , Khaled Elbassioni , Flavio L. Pinheiro , Cesar A. Hidalgo , Aamena Alshamsi
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