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We provide a bound on a natural distance between finitely and infinitely supported elements of the unit sphere of $\ell^2(\mathbb{N}^*)$, the space of real valued sequences with finite $\ell^2$ norm. We use this bound to estimate the…

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In this paper, we analyze the drift-implicit (or backward) Euler numerical scheme for a class of stochastic differential equations with unbounded drift driven by an arbitrary $\lambda$-H\"older continuous process, $\lambda\in(0,1)$. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Giulia Di Nunno , Yuliya Mishura , Anton Yurchenko-Tytarenko

Drift diffusion models (DDMs) have found widespread use in computational neuroscience and other fields. They model evidence accumulation in simple decision tasks as a stochastic process drifting towards a decision barrier. In models where…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-12 Sicheng Liu , Alexander Fengler , Michael J. Frank , Matthew T. Harrison

The total variation distance is a metric of central importance in statistics and probability theory. However, somewhat surprisingly, questions about computing it algorithmically appear not to have been systematically studied until very…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Arnab Bhattacharyya , Weiming Feng , Piyush Srivastava

For a fixed $T$ and $k \geq 2$, a $k$-dimensional vector stochastic differential equation $dX_t=\mu(X_t, \theta)dt+\nu(X_t)dW_t,$ is studied over a time interval $[0,T]$. Vector of drift parameters $\theta$ is unknown. The dependence in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Miljenko Huzak , Snježana Lubura Strunjak , Andreja Vlahek Štrok

The convergence of the first order Euler scheme and an approximative variant thereof, along with convergence rates, are established for rough differential equations driven by c\`adl\`ag paths satisfying a suitable criterion, namely the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Andrew L. Allan , Anna P. Kwossek , Chong Liu , David J. Prömel

In this paper, we study weak well-posedness of a McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations (SDEs) whose drift is density-dependent and whose diffusion is constant. The existence part is due to H\"older stability estimates of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Anh-Dung Le

We establish rigorously convergence of a semi-discrete upwind scheme for the nonlinear variational wave equation $u_{tt} - c(u)(c(u) u_x)_x = 0$ with $u|_{t=0}=u_0$ and $u_t|_{t=0}=v_0$. Introducing Riemann invariants $R=u_t+c u_x$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-08-29 H. Holden , K. H. Karlsen , N. H. Risebro

This paper presents different approaches, based on functional inequalities, to study the speed of convergence in total variation distance of ergodic diffusion processes with initial law satisfying a given integrability condition. To this…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Patrick Cattiaux , Arnaud Guillin

Consider the following stochastic differential equation for $(X_t)_{t\ge 0}$ on $\mathbb R^d$ and its Euler-Maruyama (EM) approximation $(Y_{t_n})_{n\in \mathbb Z^+}$: \begin{align*} &d X_t=b( X_t) d t+\sigma(X_t) d B_t, \\ &…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Xiang Li , Feng-Yu Wang , Lihu Xu

We obtain new transport-entropy inequalities and, as a by-product, new deviation estimates for the laws of two kinds of discrete stochastic approximation schemes. The first one refers to the law of an Euler like discretization scheme of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-01 Max Fathi , Noufel Frikha

The strong convergence of Euler approximations of stochastic delay differential equations is proved under general conditions. The assumptions on drift and diffusion coefficients have been relaxed to include polynomial growth and only…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-07 Chaman Kumar , Sotirios Sabanis

We study a stochastic control problem for nonlinear systems governed by stochastic differential equations with irregular drift. The drift coefficient is assumed to decompose as $b(t,x,a)=b_1(t,x)+b_2(x)b_3(t,a)$, where $b_1$ is bounded and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Antoine Marie Bogso , Rhoss Likibi Pellat , Wilfried Kuissi Kamdem , Olivier Menoukeu Pamen

In this paper, we first establish general bounds on the Fisher information distance to the class of normal distributions of Malliavin differentiable random variables. We then study the rate of Fisher information convergence in the central…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Nguyen Tien Dung , Nguyen Thu Hang

Consider the sample path of a one-dimensional diffusion for which the diffusion coefficient is given and where the drift may take on one of two values: $\mu_0$ or $\mu_1$. Suppose that the signal-to-noise ratio (defined as the difference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Philip Ernst , Hongwei Mei

In this paper, we are concerned with convergence rate of Euler-Maruyama (EM) scheme for stochastic differential delay equations (SDDEs) of neutral type, where the neutral term, the drift term and the diffusion term are allowed to be of…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Yanting Ji , Jianhai Bao , Chenggui Yuan

We address the problem of approximating the moments of the solution, $\boldsymbol{X}(t)$, of an It\^o stochastic differential equation (SDE) with drift and a diffusion terms over a time-grid $t_0, t_1, \ldots, t_n$. In particular, we assume…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Albert López-Yela , Joaquin Miguez

We study pathwise approximation of strong solutions of scalar stochastic differential equations (SDEs) at a single time in the presence of discontinuities of the drift coefficient. Recently, it has been shown by M\"uller-Gronbach and…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Simon Ellinger

We study a Schilder-type large deviation principle for sticky-reflected Brownian motion with boundary diffusion, both at the static and sample path level in the short-time limit. A sharp transition for the rate function occurs, depending on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Jean-Baptiste Casteras , Leonard Monsaingeon , Luca Nenna

We introduce a class of adaptive timestepping strategies for stochastic differential equations with non-Lipschitz drift coefficients. These strategies work by controlling potential unbounded growth in solutions of a numerical scheme due to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-14 Cónall Kelly , Gabriel J. Lord