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Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is an established approach for uncertainty quantification and propagation in scientific applications. A key challenge in applying MCMC to scientific domains is computation: the target density of interest is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-05 Diana Cai , Ryan P. Adams

This paper presents a seamless algorithm for the application of the multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method to the ensemble transform particle filter (ETPF). The algorithm uses a combination of optimal coupling transformations between coarse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Alastair Gregory , Colin Cotter

Entropy solutions have been widely accepted as the suitable solution framework for systems of conservation laws in several space dimensions. However, recent results in \cite{CDL1,CDL2} have demonstrated that entropy solutions may not be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Ulrik S. Fjordholm , Roger Käppeli , Siddhartha Mishra , Eitan Tadmor

The efficiency of Monte Carlo samplers is dictated not only by energetic effects, such as large barriers, but also by entropic effects that are due to the sheer volume that is sampled. The latter effects appear in the form of an entropic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cristian Predescu

We study the problem of multifidelity uncertainty propagation for computationally expensive models. In particular, we consider the general setting where the high-fidelity and low-fidelity models have a dissimilar parameterization both in…

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

Fractional derivative relaxation type equations (FREs) including fractional diffusion equation and fractional relaxation equation, have been widely used to describe anomalous phenomena in physics. To utilize the characteristics of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-20 XiaoTing Liu , HongGuang Sun , Yong Zhang , Zhuojia Fu

For important classes of many-fermion problems, quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods allow exact calculations of ground-state and finite-temperature properties, without the sign problem. The list spans condensed matter, nuclear physics, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

In this paper, we examine the Sample Average Approximation (SAA) procedure within a framework where the Monte Carlo estimator of the expectation is biased. We also introduce Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) in the SAA setup to enhance the…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-07-29 Devang Sinha , Siddhartha P. Chakrabarty

A multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method for quantifying model-form uncertainties associated with the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations is presented. Two, high-dimensional, stochastic extensions of the RANS equations are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Prashant Kumar , Martin Schmelzer , Richard P. Dwight

This article deals with the error estimates for numerical approximations of the entropy solutions of coupled systems of nonlocal hyperbolic conservation laws. The systems can be strongly coupled through the nonlocal coefficient present in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Aekta Aggarwal , Helge Holden , Ganesh Vaidya

Finite volume methods are popular tools for solving time-dependent partial differential equations, especially hyperbolic conservation laws. Over the past 40 years a popular way of enlarging their robustness was the enforcement of global or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Simon-Christian Klein , Thomas Sonar

Parametric regularity of discretizations of flux vector fields satisfying a balance law is studied under some assumptions on a random parameter that links the flux with an unknown primal variable (often through a constitutive law). In the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Vesa Kaarnioja , Andreas Rupp , Jay Gopalakrishnan

Distributionally Robust Reinforcement Learning (DR-RL) aims to derive a policy optimizing the worst-case performance within a predefined uncertainty set. Despite extensive research, previous DR-RL algorithms have predominantly favored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yudan Wang , Shaofeng Zou , Yue Wang

We consider a semi-discrete finite volume scheme for a degenerate fractional conservation laws driven by a cylindrical Wiener process. Making use of the bounded variation (BV) estimates, Young measure theory, and a clever adaptation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Ujjwal Koley , Guy Vallet

We consider the problem of estimating the probability of a large loss from a financial portfolio, where the future loss is expressed as a conditional expectation. Since the conditional expectation is intractable in most cases, one may…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Zhenghang Xu , Zhijian He , Xiaoqun Wang

In this paper, a class of finite difference numerical techniques is presented to solve the second-order linear inhomogeneous damped wave equation. The consistency, stability, and convergences of these numerical schemes are discussed. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Fazel Hadadifard , Satbir Malhi , Zhengyi Xiao

Stochastic PDE eigenvalue problems are useful models for quantifying the uncertainty in several applications from the physical sciences and engineering, e.g., structural vibration analysis, the criticality of a nuclear reactor or photonic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Alexander D. Gilbert , Robert Scheichl

Estimating failure probabilities of engineering systems is an important problem in many engineering fields. In this work we consider such problems where the failure probability is extremely small (e.g $\leq10^{-10}$). In this case, standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Xinjuan Chen , Jinglai Li

We develop a novel multilevel asymptotic-preserving Monte Carlo method, called Multilevel Kinetic-Diffusion Monte Carlo (ML-KDMC), for simulating the kinetic Boltzmann transport equation with a Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) collision…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Bert Mortier , Pieterjan Robbe , Martine Baelmans , Giovanni Samaey