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Grid-free Monte Carlo methods such as walk on spheres can be used to solve elliptic partial differential equations without mesh generation or global solves. However, such methods independently estimate the solution at every point, and hence…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Bailey Miller , Rohan Sawhney , Keenan Crane , Ioannis Gkioulekas

Grid-free Monte Carlo methods based on the walk on spheres (WoS) algorithm solve fundamental partial differential equations (PDEs) like the Poisson equation without discretizing the problem domain or approximating functions in a finite…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Rohan Sawhney , Bailey Miller , Ioannis Gkioulekas , Keenan Crane

We present projected walk on spheres (PWoS), a novel pointwise and discretization-free Monte Carlo solver for surface PDEs with Dirichlet boundaries, as a generalization of the walk on spheres method (WoS) [Muller 1956; Sawhney and Crane…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Ryusuke Sugimoto , Nathan King , Toshiya Hachisuka , Christopher Batty

Partial differential equations (PDEs) with spatially-varying coefficients arise throughout science and engineering, modeling rich heterogeneous material behavior. Yet conventional PDE solvers struggle with the immense complexity found in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Rohan Sawhney , Dario Seyb , Wojciech Jarosz , Keenan Crane

We introduce a Monte Carlo method for computing derivatives of the solution to a partial differential equation (PDE) with respect to problem parameters (such as domain geometry or boundary conditions). Derivatives can be evaluated at…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Bailey Miller , Rohan Sawhney , Keenan Crane , Ioannis Gkioulekas

We consider Monte Carlo methods for simulating solutions to the analogue of the Dirichlet boundary-value problem in which the Laplacian is replaced by the fractional Laplacian and boundary conditions are replaced by conditions on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Andreas E. Kyprianou , Ana Osojnik , Tony Shardlow

Elliptic interface problems arise in numerous scientific and engineering applications, modeling heterogeneous materials in which physical properties change discontinuously across interfaces. In this paper, we present…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Xinwen Ding , Adam R Stinchcombe

In this paper, we investigate the Walk on Spheres algorithm (WoS) for motion planning in robotics. WoS is a Monte Carlo method to solve the Dirichlet problem developed in the 50s by Muller and has recently been repopularized by Sawhney and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Rafael I. Cabral Muchacho , Florian T. Pokorny

We use Array-RQMC sampling in a walk on spheres (WOS) algorithm for Dirichlet boundary value problems. On a collection of problems, we find that Array-RQMC-WOS reduces the Monte Carlo variance by factors ranging from $57$-fold to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Valerie N. P. Ho , Art B. Owen

A discrete random walk method on grids was proposed and used to solve the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equation (LPBE) \cite{Rammile}. Here, we present a new and efficient grid-free random walk method. Based on a modified `` Walk On…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Chi-Ok Hwang , Michael Mascagni

Solving elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) is a fundamental step in various scientific and engineering studies. As a classic stochastic solver, the Walk-on-Spheres (WoS) method is a well-established and efficient algorithm that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Silei Song , Arash Fahim , Michael Mascagni

We propose Neural Walk-on-Spheres (NWoS), a novel neural PDE solver for the efficient solution of high-dimensional Poisson equations. Leveraging stochastic representations and Walk-on-Spheres methods, we develop novel losses for neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Hong Chul Nam , Julius Berner , Anima Anandkumar

Walk on stars (WoSt) is currently one of the most advanced Monte Carlo solvers for PDEs. Unfortunately, the lack of reliable geometric query approaches has hindered its applicability to boundaries defined by implicit surfaces. This work…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Tianyu Huang

Stochastic PDE solvers have emerged as a powerful alternative to traditional discretization-based methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), especially in geometry processing and graphics. While off-centered estimators…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Anchang Bao , Jie Xu , Enya Shen , Jianmin Wang

We investigate the use of randomized quasi-Monte Carlo (RQMC) in walk on spheres algorithms to solve boundary value problems for functions with Dirichlet boundary conditions in $\mathbb{R}^d$. For harmonic functions with $d=2$, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Valerie N. P. Ho , Art B. Owen

Walk on stars (WoSt) has shown its power in being applied to Monte Carlo methods for solving partial differential equations, but the sampling techniques in WoSt are not satisfactory, leading to high variance. We propose a guiding-based…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Tianyu Huang , Jingwang Ling , Shuang Zhao , Feng Xu

In this paper, we develop a highly parallel and derivative-free fractional neural walk-on-spheres method (FNWoS) for solving high-dimensional fractional Poisson equations on irregular domains. We first propose a simplified fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Ling Guo , Mingxin Qin , Changtao Sheng , Hao Wu , Fanhai Zeng

The Initial-Boundary Value Problem for the heat equation is solved by using a new algorithm based on a random walk on heat balls. Even if it represents a sophisticated generalization of the Walk on Spheres (WOS) algorithm introduced to…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-14 Madalina Deaconu , Samuel Herrmann

Modeling physical phenomena like heat transport and diffusion is crucially dependent on the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). A PDE solver finds the solution given coefficients and a boundary condition, whereas an…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Ekrem Fatih Yılmazer , Delio Vicini , Wenzel Jakob

In this paper, a high order implicit Method of Line Transpose (MOL$^T$ ) method based on a weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) methodology is developed for one-dimensional linear transport equations and further applied to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Andrew Christlieb , Wei Guo , Yan Jiang
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