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The Langevin dynamics is a diffusion process extensively used, in particular in molecular dynamics simulations, to sample Gibbs measures. Some alternatives based on (piecewise deterministic) kinetic velocity jump processes have gained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Nicolaï Gouraud , Lucas Journel , Pierre Monmarché

Sampling from discrete distributions is a ubiquitous task in machine learning, recently revisited by the emergence of discrete diffusion models. While Langevin algorithms constitute the state of the art for continuous spaces, discrete…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Armand Gissler , Saeed Saremi , Francis Bach

We provide a refined explicit estimate of exponential decay rate of underdamped Langevin dynamics in $L^2$ distance, based on a framework developed in [1]. To achieve this, we first prove a Poincar\'{e}-type inequality with Gibbs measure in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Yu Cao , Jianfeng Lu , Lihan Wang

In this work, we establish that discontinuous Galerkin methods are capable of producing reliable approximations for a broad class of nonlinear variational problems. In particular, we demonstrate that these schemes provide essential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Georgios Grekas , Konstantinos Koumatos , Charalambos Makridakis , Andreas Vikelis

This paper further discusses the tempered fractional Brownian motion, its ergodicity, and the derivation of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation. Then we introduce the generalized Langevin equation with the tempered fractional Gaussian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Yao Chen , Xudong Wang , Weihua Deng

We discuss the derivation and the solutions of integro-differential equations (variable-order time-fractional diffusion equations) following as continuous limits for lattice continuous time random walk schemes with power-law waiting-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-22 Philipp Roth , Igor M. Sokolov

A model has two main aims: predicting the behavior of a physical system and understanding its nature, that is how it works, at some desired level of abstraction. A promising recent approach to model building consists in deriving a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-26 Marco Baldovin , Andrea Puglisi , Angelo Vulpiani

The behavior of the self diffusion constant of Langevin particles interacting via a pairwise interaction is considered. The diffusion constant is calculated approximately within a perturbation theory in the potential strength about the bare…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 D. S. Dean , A. Lefèvre

In this paper, we first propose an unconditionally stable implicit difference scheme for solving generalized time-space fractional diffusion equations (GTSFDEs) with variable coefficients. The numerical scheme utilizes the $L1$-type formula…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Xian-Ming Gu , Ting-Zhu Huang , Yong-Liang Zhao , Pin Lyu , Bruno Carpentieri

We propose and study a new multilevel method for the numerical approximation of a Gibbs distribution $\pi$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$, based on (overdamped) Langevin diffusions. This method inspired by \cite{mainPPlangevin} and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Maxime Egéa , Fabien Panloup

The advection-diffusion equation is studied via a global Lagrangian coordinate transformation. The metric tensor of the Lagrangian coordinates couples the dynamical system theory rigorously into the solution of this class of partial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. Z. Tang , A. H. Boozer

EEG time series are analyzed using the diffusion entropy method. The resulting EEG entropy manifests short-time scaling, asymptotic saturation and an attenuated alpha-rhythm modulation. These properties are faithfully modeled by a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-03-06 M. Ignaccolo , M. Latka , W. Jernajczyk , P. Grigolini , B. J. West

We investigate the error of the (semidiscrete) Galerkin method applied to a semilinear subdiffusion equation in the presence of a nonsmooth initial data. The diffusion coefficient is allowed to depend on time. It is well-known that in such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Łukasz Płociniczak

Viscoelastic subdiffusion governed by a fractional Langevin equation is studied numerically in a random Gaussian environment modeled by stationary Gaussian potentials with decaying spatial correlations. This anomalous diffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-12 Igor Goychuk

Climate science employs a hierarchy of models, trading the tractability of simplified energy balance models (EBMs) against the detail of Global Circulation Models. Since the pioneering work of Hasselmann, stochastic EBMs have allowed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-07 Nicholas Watkins , Sandra Chapman , Aleksei Chechkin , Ian Ford , Rainer Klages , David Stainforth

Classically, the continuous-time Langevin diffusion converges exponentially fast to its stationary distribution $\pi$ under the sole assumption that $\pi$ satisfies a Poincar\'e inequality. Using this fact to provide guarantees for the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Sinho Chewi , Murat A. Erdogdu , Mufan Bill Li , Ruoqi Shen , Matthew Zhang

In this paper, we provide a multiscale perspective on the problem of maximum marginal likelihood estimation. We consider and analyse a diffusion-based maximum marginal likelihood estimation scheme using ideas from multiscale dynamics. Our…

Computation · Statistics 2024-06-11 O. Deniz Akyildiz , Michela Ottobre , Iain Souttar

We describe and analyze a quasi-Trefftz DG method for solving boundary value problems for the homogeneous diffusion-advection-reaction equation with piecewise-smooth coefficients. Trefftz schemes are high-order Galerkin methods whose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Chiara Perinati

An asymptotic limit of a class of Cahn-Hilliard systems is investigated to obtain a general nonlinear diffusion equation. The target diffusion equation may reproduce a number of well-known model equations: Stefan problem, porous media…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao

In this paper we construct numerical schemes to approximate linear transport equations with slab geometry by diffusion equations. We treat both the case of pure diffusive scaling and the case where kinetic and diffusive scalings coexist.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Qin Li , Jianfeng Lu , Weiran Sun