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Given nonstationary data from molecular dynamics simulations, a Markovian Langevin model is constructed that aims to reproduce the time evolution of the underlying process. While at equilibrium the free energy landscape is sampled,…

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The numerical approximation of an inverse problem subject to the convection--diffusion equation when diffusion dominates is studied. We derive Carleman estimates that are on a form suitable for use in numerical analysis and with explicit…

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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 consider the problem of sampling distributions stemming from non-convex potentials with Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm (ULA). We prove the stability of the discrete-time ULA to drift approximations under the assumption that the potential…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-01 Marien Renaud , Valentin De Bortoli , Arthur Leclaire , Nicolas Papadakis

The aggregated unfitted finite element method (AgFEM) is a methodology recently introduced in order to address conditioning and stability problems associated with embedded, unfitted, or extended finite element methods. The method is based…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Francesc Verdugo , Alberto F. Martín , Santiago Badia

We present the complete set of stochastic Verlet-type algorithms that can provide correct statistical measures for both configurational and kinetic sampling in discrete-time Langevin systems. The approach is a brute-force general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-06 Niels Grønbech-Jensen

We study the numerical approximation of advection-diffusion equations with highly oscillatory coefficients and possibly dominant advection terms by means of the Multiscale Finite Element Method. The latter method is a now classical, finite…

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We establish sample complexity guarantees for estimating the covariance matrix of a strongly log-concave smooth distribution using the unadjusted Langevin algorithm (ULA). We quantitatively compare our complexity estimates on single-chain…

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We present a novel methodology based on filtered data and moving averages for estimating effective dynamics from observations of multiscale systems. We show in a semi-parametric framework of the Langevin type that our approach is…

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Statistical solutions of incompressible Euler describe turbulent dynamics as time-parameterized laws on $L^2$ whose multi-point correlations satisfy an infinite hierarchy of weak identities. Modern generative samplers for PDE forecasting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Victor Armegioiu

We present a novel probabilistic finite element method (FEM) for the solution and uncertainty quantification of elliptic partial differential equations based on random meshes, which we call random mesh FEM (RM-FEM). Our methodology allows…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-17 Assyr Abdulle , Giacomo Garegnani

We study the design and implementation of numerical methods to solve the generalized Langevin equation (GLE) focusing on canonical sampling properties of numerical integrators. For this purpose, we cast the GLE in an extended phase space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-09 Benedict Leimkuhler , Matthias Sachs

Quantitative characterization of tissue properties, known as elasticity imaging, can be cast as solving an ill-posed inverse problem. The finite element methods (FEMs) in magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) imaging are based on solving a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Narges Mohammadi , Marvin M. Doyley , Mujdat Cetin

Recently, we proposed a method to estimate parameters of stochastic dynamics based on the linear response statistics. The method rests upon a nonlinear least-squares problem that takes into account the response properties that stem from the…

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We describe a simple stochastic method, so-called Langevin approach, which enables one to extract evolution equations of stochastic variables from a set of measurements. Our method is parameter-free and it is based on the nonlinear Langevin…

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Uncertainty estimation is a key issue when considering the application of deep neural network methods in science and engineering. In this work, we introduce a novel algorithm that quantifies epistemic uncertainty via Monte Carlo sampling…

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Acceleration is a celebrated cornerstone of convex optimization, enabling gradient-based algorithms to converge sublinearly in the condition number. A major open question is whether an analogous acceleration phenomenon is possible for…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Jason M. Altschuler , Sinho Chewi , Matthew S. Zhang

We derive globally reliable a posteriori error estimators for a PDE-constrained optimization problem involving linear models in fluid dynamics as state equation; control constraints are also considered. The corresponding local error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Alejandro Allendes , Enrique Otarola , Richard Rankin

We propose a novel finite element method scheme for singularly perturbed advection-diffusion-reaction problems, which combines certain quantum-assisted stabilization scheme with a classical h-adaptive approach to provide automatic error…

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In this work we consider the unbiased estimation of expectations w.r.t.~probability measures that have non-negative Lebesgue density, and which are known point-wise up-to a normalizing constant. We focus upon developing an unbiased method…

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