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Inspired by many examples in nature, stochastic resetting of random processes has been studied extensively in the past decade. In particular, various models of stochastic particle motion were considered where upon resetting the particle is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-23 Ofir Tal-Friedman , Yael Roichman , Shlomi Reuveni

In this paper we develop a time reversal method for the radiative transport equation to solve two problems: an inverse problem for the recovery of an initial condition from boundary measurements, and the exact boundary controllability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-06 Sebastian Acosta

We consider a partial data inverse problem for a time-dependent convection-diffusion equation on an admissible manifold. We prove that the time-dependent convection term and time-dependent density can be recovered uniquely modulo a known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Rohit Kumar Mishra , Anamika Purohit , Manmohan Vashisth

Diffusion models have achieved huge empirical success in data generation tasks. Recently, some efforts have been made to adapt the framework of diffusion models to discrete state space, providing a more natural approach for modeling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-15 Hongrui Chen , Lexing Ying

Continuous time random walks are non-Markovian stochastic processes, which are only partly characterized by single-time probability distributions. We derive a closed evolution equation for joint two-point probability density functions of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Baule , R. Friedrich

This paper investigates an inverse source problem for space-time fractional diffusion equations from a posteriori interior measurements. The uniqueness result is established by the memory effect of fractional derivatives and the unique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Kai Yu , Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu

This paper investigates the entropy production rate and time-reversibility for general jump diffusions (L\'{e}vy processes) on $\mathbb{R}^n$. We first formulate the entropy production rate and explore its associated thermodynamic relations…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Qi Zhang , Yubin Lu

Motivated in part by a problem in simulated tempering (a form of Markov chain Monte Carlo) we seek to minimise, in a suitable sense, the time it takes a (regular) diffusion with instantaneous reflection at 0 and 1 to travel to $1$ and then…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Ma. Elena Hernández-Hernández , Saul Jacka

In the context of nonparametric Bayesian estimation a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm is devised and implemented to sample from the posterior distribution of the drift function of a continuously or discretely observed one-dimensional…

Computation · Statistics 2017-06-08 Frank van der Meulen , Moritz Schauer , Harry van Zanten

Transfer Entropy and Directed Information are information-theoretic measures of the directional dependency between stochastic processes. Following the definitions of Schreiber and Massey in discrete time, we define and evaluate these…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Nigel J. Newton

We propose a discrete time formulation of the semi martingale optimal transport problembased on multi-marginal entropic transport. This approach offers a new way to formulate and solve numerically the calibration problem proposed by Guo et…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Chazareix , Grégoire Loeper

We prove a limit theorem for an integral functional of a Markov process. The Markovian dynamics is characterized by a linear Boltzmann equation modeling a one-dimensional test particle of mass $\lambda^{-1}\gg 1$ in an external periodic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-22 Jeremy Clark

Existing diffusion-based methods for inverse problems sample from the posterior using score functions and accept the generated random samples as solutions. In applications that posterior mean is preferred, we have to generate multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhipeng Xue , Penghao Cai , Xiaojun Yuan , Xiqi Gao

The problem of reconstructing the drift of a diffusion in $\erre^d$, $d\geq 2$, from the transition probability density observed outside a domain is considered. The solution of this problem also solves a new inverse problem for a class of…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Sergio Albeverio , Carlo Marinelli

We study the temporal dissipation of variance and relative entropy for ergodic Markov Chains in continuous time, and compute explicitly the corresponding dissipation rates. These are identified, as is well known, in the case of the variance…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Ioannis Karatzas , Jan Maas , Walter Schachermayer

The Inverse First Passage time problem seeks to determine the boundary corresponding to a given stochastic process and a fixed first passage time distribution. Here, we determine the numerical solution of this problem in the case of a two…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Alessia Civallero , Cristina Zucca

We derive diffusion constants and martingales for senile random walks with the help of a time-change. We provide direct computations of the diffusion constants for the time-changed walks. Alternatively, the values of these constants can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-19 Wouter Kager

In this paper continuous time random walk models approximating fractional space-time diffusion processes are studied. Stochastic processes associated with the considered equations represent time-changed processes, where the time-change…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Sabir Umarov

In this work we investigate an inverse coefficient problem for the one-dimensional subdiffusion model, which involves a Caputo fractional derivative in time. The inverse problem is to determine two coefficients and multiple parameters (the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Siyu Cen , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian , Eric Soccorsi , Rachid Zarouf , Zhi Zhou

Integration by parts formulae are given for a class of measures on the space of paths of a smooth manifold $M$ determined by the laws of degenerate diffusions. The mother of such formulae, on the path space of diffeomorphism group of $M$ is…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-25 K. D. Elworthy , Yves Le Jan , Xue-Mei Li