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Existing data-driven and feedback traffic control strategies do not consider the heterogeneity of real-time data measurements. Besides, traditional reinforcement learning (RL) methods for traffic control usually converge slowly for lacking…

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Ion channels are important proteins for physiological information transfer and functional control. To predict the microscopic origins of their voltage-conductance characteristics, we here applied dissipation-corrected targeted Molecular…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Miriam Jäger , Thorsten Koslowski , Steffen Wolf

We consider one-step methods for integrating stochastic differential equations and prove pathwise convergence using ideas from rough path theory. In contrast to alternative theories of pathwise convergence, no knowledge is required of…

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Robots are still poor at traversing cluttered large obstacles required for important applications like search and rescue. By contrast, animals are excellent at doing so, often using direct physical interaction with obstacles rather than…

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Since Kramers' pioneering work in 1940, significant efforts have been devoted to studying Langevin equations applied to physical and chemical reactions projected onto few collective variables, with particular focus on the inference of their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-16 David Daniel Girardier , Hadrien Vroylandt , Sara Bonella , Fabio Pietrucci

In this paper we discuss $\l$-policy iteration, a method for exact and approximate dynamic programming. It is intermediate between the classical value iteration (VI) and policy iteration (PI) methods, and it is closely related to optimistic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Dimitri P. Bertsekas

For diffusive stochastic dynamics, the probability to observe any individual trajectory is vanishingly small, making it unclear how to experimentally validate theoretical results for ratios of path probabilities. We provide the missing link…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-04 Jannes Gladrow , Ulrich F. Keyser , R. Adhikari , Julian Kappler

We demonstrate that the conventional path integral formulations generate inconsistent results exemplified by the geometric Brownian motion under the general stochastic interpretation. We thus develop a novel path integral formulation for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ying Tang , Ruoshi Yuan , Ping Ao

In this paper, we analyse a proximal method based on the idea of forward-backward splitting for sampling from distributions with densities that are not necessarily smooth. In particular, we study the non-asymptotic properties of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Armin Eftekhari , Luis Vargas , Konstantinos Zygalakis

We propose algorithms for sampling from posterior path measures $P(C([0, T], \mathbb{R}^d))$ under a general prior process. This leverages ideas from (1) controlled equilibrium dynamics, which gradually transport between two path measures,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Qijia Jiang , Reuben Cohn-Gordon

Langevin integrators based on operator splitting are widely used in molecular dynamics. This work examines Langevin splitting schemes from the perspective of their internal trajectories and observation points, complementing existing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-03 Bettina G. Keller

The numerical simulation of realistic reactive flows is a major challenge due to the stiffness and high dimension of the corresponding kinetic differential equations. Manifold-based model reduction techniques address this problem by…

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Most natural and engineered information-processing systems transmit information via signals that vary in time. Computing the information transmission rate or the information encoded in the temporal characteristics of these signals, requires…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-27 Manuel Reinhardt , Gašper Tkačik , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Automated vehicles are envisioned to navigate safely in complex mixed-traffic scenarios alongside human-driven vehicles. To promise a high degree of safety, accurately predicting the maneuvers of surrounding vehicles and their future…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Shuli Wang , Kun Gao , Lanfang Zhang , Yang Liu , Lei Chen

We commonly encounter the problem of identifying an optimally weight adjusted version of the empirical distribution of observed data, adhering to predefined constraints on the weights. Such constraints often manifest as restrictions on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-17 Abhisek Chakraborty , Anirban Bhattacharya , Debdeep Pati

Sparse parametric models are of great interest in statistical learning and are often analyzed by means of regularized estimators. Pathwise methods allow to efficiently compute the full solution path for penalized estimators, for any…

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Typical path integral Monte Carlo approaches use the primitive approximation to compute the probability density for a given path. In this work, we develop the pair Discrete Variable Representation (pair-DVR) approach to study molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Shaeer Moeed , Tobias Serwatka , Pierre-Nicholas Roy

We show how to calculate the likelihood of dynamical large deviations using evolutionary reinforcement learning. An agent, a stochastic model, propagates a continuous-time Monte Carlo trajectory and receives a reward conditioned upon the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Stephen Whitelam , Daniel Jacobson , Isaac Tamblyn

In numerical studies of diffusive dynamics, two different action functionals are often used to specify the probability distribution of trajectories, one of which requiring the evaluation of the second derivative of the potential in addition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-28 Artur B. Adib

Systems governed by a multivariate Langevin equation featuring an exact potential exhibit straightforward dynamics but are often difficult to recognize because, after a general coordinate change, the gradient flow becomes obscured by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-11 Tiemo Pedergnana , Nicolas Noiray