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Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has been widely used in machine learning due to its computational efficiency and favorable generalization properties. Recently, it has been empirically demonstrated that the gradient noise in several deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-24 Thanh Huy Nguyen , Umut Şimşekli , Mert Gürbüzbalaban , Gaël Richard

In this paper we explore the merit of relative entropy in proving weak well-posedness of McKean-Vlasov SDEs and SPDEs, extending the technique introduced in Lacker arxiv:2105.02983. In the SDE setting, we prove weak existence and uniqueness…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Yi Han

In this paper, we consider the averaging principle for a class of McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations with slow and fast time-scales. Under some proper assumptions on the coefficients, we first prove that the slow component…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Michael Röckner , Xiaobin Sun , Yingchao Xie

In the present work, we establish the approximation of nonlinear stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) driven by cylindrical {\alpha}-stable L\'evy processes via modulation or amplitude equations. We study SPDEs with a cubic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Shenglan Yuan , Dirk Blömker

We study a one-dimensional McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equation (SDE) with a drift equal to a product of a distribution depending on the state of the process and a non-linear function depending pointwise on the law density of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Luis Mario Chaparro Jaquez , Elena Issoglio , Jan Palczewski

We analyze the variance of stochastic gradients along negative curvature directions in certain non-convex machine learning models and show that stochastic gradients exhibit a strong component along these directions. Furthermore, we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Hadi Daneshmand , Jonas Kohler , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

In this work, we establish the small-noise asymptotic behaviour (namely, the functional law of large numbers and the large deviation principle) for multi-scale McKean--Vlasov diffusions with super-linear kernels. In this setting, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Wei Hong , Shanshan Hu , Wei Liu , Shiyuan Yang

This paper considers stochastic population dynamics driven by Levy noise. The contributions of this paper lie in that (a) Using Khasminskii-Mao theorem, we show that the stochastic differential equation associated with the model has a…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-05-09 Jianhai Bao , Chenggui Yuan

We study large deviation upper bounds and mean-squared error (MSE) guarantees of a general framework of nonlinear stochastic gradient methods in the online setting, in the presence of heavy-tailed noise. Unlike existing works that rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Aleksandar Armacki , Shuhua Yu , Dragana Bajovic , Dusan Jakovetic , Soummya Kar

The first goal of this note is to prove the strong well-posedness of McKean-Vlasov SDEs driven by L{\'e}vy processes on $\mathbb{R}^d$ having a finite moment of order $\beta \in [1,2]$ and under standard Lipschitz assumptions on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Thomas Cavallazzi

Noise-induced transitions between multistable states happen in a multitude of systems, such as species extinction in biology, protein folding, or tipping points in climate science. Large deviation theory is the rigorous language to describe…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Paolo Bernuzzi , Tobias Grafke

The reconstruction and inference of stochastic dynamical systems from data is a fundamental task in inverse problems and statistical learning. While surrogate modeling advances computational methods to approximate these dynamics, standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Nicole Tianjiao Yang

This study examines the challenges of modeling complex and noisy data related to socioeconomic factors over time, with a focus on data from various districts in Odisha, India. Traditional time-series models struggle to capture both trends…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Sandeep Kumar Samota , Reema Gupta , Snehashish Chakraverty

We consider conditional McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations (SDEs), such as the ones arising in the large-system limit of mean field games and particle systems with mean field interactions when common noise is present. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Daniel Lacker , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov , Jiacheng Zhang

The Freidlin-Wentzell large deviation principle is established for the distributions of stochastic evolution equations with general monotone drift and small multiplicative noise. As examples, the main results are applied to derive the large…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-05-06 Wei Liu

We establish stability and pathwise uniqueness of solutions to Wiener noise driven McKean-Vlasov equations with random non-Lipschitz continuous coefficients. In the deterministic case, we also obtain the existence of unique strong…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Alexander Kalinin , Thilo Meyer-Brandis , Frank Proske

In this article we show that a finite dimensional stochastic differential equation driven by a L\'evy process can be formulated as a stochastic partial differential equation. We prove the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions of such…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Suprio Bhar , Rajeev Bhaskaran , Barun Sarkar

In this article we consider parametric Bayesian inference for stochastic differential equations (SDE) driven by a pure-jump stable Levy process, which is observed at high frequency. In most cases of practical interest, the likelihood…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-28 Ajay Jasra , Kengo Kamatani , Hiroki Masuda

By comparing the original equations with the corresponding stationary ones, the moderate deviation principle (MDP) is established for unbounded additive functionals of several different models of distribution dependent SDEs, with…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Panpan Ren , Shen Wang

We investigate the validity and accuracy of weak-noise (saddle-point or instanton) approximations for piecewise-smooth stochastic differential equations (SDEs), taking as an illustrative example a piecewise-constant SDE, which serves as a…

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