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In this paper, we construct and analyze an energy stable scheme by combining the latest developed scalar auxiliary variable (SAV) approach and linear finite element method (FEM) for phase field crystal (PFC) model, and show rigorously that…

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We propose an algorithm for the efficient and robust sampling of the posterior probability distribution in Bayesian inference problems. The algorithm combines the local search capabilities of the Manifold Metropolis Adjusted Langevin…

We discuss the design of an invariant measure-preserving transformed dynamics for the numerical treatment of Langevin dynamics based on rescaling of time, with the goal of sampling from an invariant measure. Given an appropriate monitor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Alix Leroy , Benedict Leimkuhler , Jonas Latz , Desmond J. Higham

Finite element methods have been shown to achieve high accuracies in numerically solving the EEG forward problem and they enable the realistic modeling of complex geometries and important conductive features such as anisotropic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Johannes Vorwerk , Christian Engwer , Sampsa Pursiainen , Carsten H. Wolters

Obtaining stable diffusion-based samplers in high- and infinite-dimensional settings is challenging because errors can accumulate across high-frequency coordinates and make the dynamics unstable under refinement of the finite-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Lorenzo Baldassari , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna , Maarten V. de Hoop

We propose a novel discrete Poisson equation approach to estimate the statistical error of a broad class of numerical integrators for the underdamped Langevin dynamics. The statistical error refers to the mean square error of the estimator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Xuda Ye , Zhennan Zhou

In this paper, we propose a linearized finite element method (FEM) for solving the cubic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with wave operator. In this method, a modified leap-frog scheme is applied for time discretization and a Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Wentao Cai , Dongdong He , Kejia Pan

Sampling from log-concave distributions is a well researched problem that has many applications in statistics and machine learning. We study the distributions of the form $p^{*}\propto\exp(-f(x))$, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Ruoqi Shen , Yin Tat Lee

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is a powerful but computationally intensive method for simulating physical phenomena. Recent advancements in machine learning have led to surrogate models capable of accelerating FEA. Yet there are still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Georgios Triantafyllou , Panagiotis G. Kalozoumis , George Dimas , Dimitris K. Iakovidis

We propose a parsimonious class of arbitrage-free, yields-only dynamic term structure models (DTSMs) with unspanned latent risks. To enable sequential estimation and forecasting, we develop a Sequential Monte Carlo framework that combines…

Many problems in the geophysical sciences demand the ability to calibrate the parameters and predict the time evolution of complex dynamical models using sequentially-collected data. Here we introduce a general methodology for the joint…

Computation · Statistics 2018-12-12 Sara Pérez-Vieites , Inés P. Mariño , Joaquín Míguez

In this report, we propose a divergence-free preserving mixed finite element method (FEM) for the system of nonlinear fourth-order thermally driven active fluid equations. By introducing two auxiliary variables, we lower the complexity of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Nan Zheng , Qingguang Guan , Wenlong Pei , Wenju Zhao

An efficient and accurate finite-element algorithm is described for the numerical solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes (INS) equations. The new algorithm that solves the INS equations in a velocity-pressure reformulation is based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Longfei Li

We consider the problem of sampling from a strongly log-concave density in $\mathbb{R}^d$, and prove a non-asymptotic upper bound on the mixing time of the Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithm (MALA). The method draws samples by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-12 Raaz Dwivedi , Yuansi Chen , Martin J. Wainwright , Bin Yu

This paper presents a direct method to obtain the deterministic and stochastic contribution of the sum of two independent sets of stochastic processes, one of which is composed by Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes and the other being a general…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-10-27 Teresa Scholz , Frank Raischel , Vitor V. Lopes , Bernd Lehle , Matthias Wächter , Joachim Peinke , Pedro G. Lind

In this work, we develop variational formulations of Petrov-Galerkin type for one-dimensional fractional boundary value problems involving either a Riemann-Liouville or Caputo derivative of order $\alpha\in(3/2, 2)$ in the leading term and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-18 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Zhi Zhou

We present a framework for solving a broad class of ill-posed inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs), where the target coefficients of the forward operator are recovered through an iterative regularization scheme…

We develop a cut finite element method (CutFEM) for convection-diffusion problems posed on mixed-dimensional domains, i.e., unions of manifolds of different dimensions arranged in a hierarchical structure where lower-dimensional components…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson , Shantiram Mahata

Obtaining coarse-grained models that accurately incorporate finite-size effects is an important open challenge in the study of complex, multi-scale systems. We apply Langevin regression, a recently developed method for finding stochastic…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-10-12 Jordan Snyder , Jared L. Callaham , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

Typical areas of application of explicit dynamics are impact, crash test, and most importantly, wave propagation simulations. Due to the numerically highly demanding nature of these problems, efficient automatic mesh generators and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Junqi Zhang , Ankit Ankit , Hauke Gravenkamp , Sascha Eisenträger , Chongmin Song