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In this paper, we present a numerical scheme to solve the initial-boundary value problem for backward stochastic partial differential equations of parabolic type. Based on the Galerkin method, we approximate the original equation by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-16 Yanqing Wang

In this work we develop a scalable computational framework for the solution of PDE-constrained optimal control under high-dimensional uncertainty. Specifically, we consider a mean-variance formulation of the control objective and employ a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Peng Chen , Umberto Villa , Omar Ghattas

Time-delayed differential equations (TDDEs) are widely used to model complex dynamic systems where future states depend on past states with a delay. However, inferring the underlying TDDEs from observed data remains a challenging problem…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-07 Debangshu Chowdhury , Souvik Chakraborty

We explore probability modelling of discretization uncertainty for system states defined implicitly by ordinary or partial differential equations. Accounting for this uncertainty can avoid posterior under-coverage when likelihoods are…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-10-25 Oksana A. Chkrebtii , David A. Campbell , Ben Calderhead , Mark A. Girolami

This paper introduces a new approximation scheme for solving high-dimensional semilinear partial differential equations (PDEs) and backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs). First, we decompose a target semilinear PDE (BSDE) into…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Akihiko Takahashi , Yoshifumi Tsuchida , Toshihiro Yamada

Gaussian processes scale prohibitively with the size of the dataset. In response, many approximation methods have been developed, which inevitably introduce approximation error. This additional source of uncertainty, due to limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jonathan Wenger , Geoff Pleiss , Marvin Pförtner , Philipp Hennig , John P. Cunningham

We study a system of Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (FBSDEs) with time-delayed generators. The forward process includes a reflection component expressed via a Stieltjes integral, while the backward process takes the form…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Luca Di Persio , Matteo Garbelli , Adrian Zalinescu

The mean-variance hedging (MVH) problem is studied in a partially observable market where the drift processes can only be inferred through the observation of asset or index processes. Although most of the literatures treat the MVH problem…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-11-26 Masaaki Fujii , Akihiko Takahashi

We consider the estimation of an n-dimensional vector s from the noisy element-wise measurements of $\mathbf{s}\mathbf{s}^T$, a generic problem that arises in statistics and machine learning. We study a mismatched Bayesian inference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Farzad Pourkamali , Nicolas Macris

Deep learning-based numerical schemes for solving high-dimensional backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) have recently raised plenty of scientific interest. While they enable numerical methods to approximate very…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Lorenc Kapllani , Long Teng , Matthias Rottmann

We consider the problem of numerically approximating the solutions to a partial differential equation (PDE) when there is insufficient information to determine a unique solution. Our main example is the Poisson boundary value problem, when…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Peter Binev , Andrea Bonito , Albert Cohen , Wolfgang Dahmen , Ronald DeVore , Guergana Petrova

We consider delay differential equations (DDE) that are on the verge of an instability, i.e. the characteristic equation for the linearized equation has one root as zero and all other roots have negative real parts. In presence of small…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-02 Nishanth Lingala

We extend the results of the FBSDE theory in order to construct a probabilistic representation of a viscosity solution to the Cauchy problem for a system of quasilinear parabolic equations. We derive a BSDE associated with a class of…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-09 Ya. I. Belopolskaya

In this article we consider the approximation of a variable coefficient (two-sided) fractional diffusion equation (FDE), having unknown $u$. By introducing an intermediate unknown, $q$, the variable coefficient FDE is rewritten as a lower…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Xiangcheng Zheng , V. J. Ervin , Hong Wang

Bayesian methods are actively used for parameter identification and uncertainty quantification when solving nonlinear inverse problems with random noise. However, there are only few theoretical results justifying the Bayesian approach.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Vladimir Spokoiny

A novel approximate Bayesian filter based on backward stochastic differential equations is introduced. It uses a nonlinear Feynman--Kac representation of the filtering problem and the approximation of an unnormalized filtering density using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Kasper Bågmark , Adam Andersson , Stig Larsson

In this paper, we study a class of Type-II backward stochastic Volterra integral equations (BSVIEs). For the adapted M-solutions, we obtain two approximation results, namely, a BSDE approximation and a numerical approximation. The BSDE…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Yushi Hamaguchi , Dai Taguchi

In this work, the uncertainty associated with the finite element discretization error is modeled following the Bayesian paradigm. First, a continuous formulation is derived, where a Gaussian process prior over the solution space is updated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Anne Poot , Pierre Kerfriden , Iuri Rocha , Frans van der Meer

We consider the problem of parameter estimation in a partially observed linear Gaussian system with small noises in the state and observation equations. We describe asymptotic properties of the MLE and Bayes estimators in the setting with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Yury A. Kutoyants

We investigate variational methods for finding approximate solutions to the Fokker-Planck equation, especially in cases lacking detailed balance. These schemes fall into two classes: those in which a Hermitian operator is constructed from…

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