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Mean-field stochastic differential equations, also called McKean--Vlasov equations, are the limiting equations of interacting particle systems with fully symmetric interaction potential. Such systems play an important role in a variety of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Eirini Ioannou , Stefan Klus , Gonçalo dos Reis

In the present paper we consider the problem of estimating a periodic $(r+1)$-dimensional function $f$ based on observations from its noisy convolution. We construct a wavelet estimator of $f$, derive minimax lower bounds for the $L^2$-risk…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-24 Rida Benhaddou , Marianna Pensky , Dominique Picard

In this paper, we establish well-posedness of reflected McKean-Vlasov SDEs and their particle approximations in smooth non-convex domains. We prove convergence of the interacting particle system to the corresponding mean-field limit with…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-10 P. D. Hinds , A. Sharma , M. V. Tretyakov

We consider deconvolution from repeated observations with unknown error distribution. So far, this model has mostly been studied under the additional assumption that the errors are symmetric. We construct an estimator for the non-symmetric…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Johanna Kappus , Fabienne Comte

In this paper, we investigate a nonparametric approach to provide a recursive estimator of the transition density of a non-stationary piecewise-deterministic Markov process, from only one observation of the path within a long time. In this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Romain Azaïs

We consider a multiplicative deconvolution problem, in which the density $f$ or the survival function $S^X$ of a strictly positive random variable $X$ is estimated nonparametrically based on an i.i.d. sample from a noisy observation $Y =…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Sergio Brenner Miguel , Jan Johannes , Maximilian Siebel

This paper investigates the approximation of invariant measures for McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations (SDEs) using the Euler-Maruyama (EM) scheme under a monotonicity condition. Firstly, the convergence of the numerical…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Zhen Wang , Mingyan Wu

Estimation of response functions is an important task in dynamic medical imaging. This task arises for example in dynamic renal scintigraphy, where impulse response or retention functions are estimated, or in functional magnetic resonance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-22 Ondřej Tichý , Václav Šmídl

This work is focussed on the inversion task of inferring the distribution over parameters of interest leading to multiple sets of observations. The potential to solve such distributional inversion problems is driven by increasing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-06 Arnaud Vadeboncoeur , Mark Girolami , Andrew M. Stuart

We propose an efficient meta-algorithm for Bayesian estimation problems that is based on low-degree polynomials, semidefinite programming, and tensor decomposition. The algorithm is inspired by recent lower bound constructions for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Samuel B. Hopkins , David Steurer

Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are extensively employed as photosensors in neutrino and dark matter detection. The precise charge and timing information extracted from the PMT waveform plays a crucial role in energy and vertex reconstruction.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-14 Jingzhe Tang , Tianying Xiao , Xuan Tang , Yongbo Huang

We analyze a class of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) defined on $\mathbb{R}^d \times \mathcal{P}_2(\mathbb{R}^d),$ where $\mathcal{P}_2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ is the Wasserstein space of probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-23 Jean-François Chassagneux , Dan Crisan , François Delarue

We present a novel solution method for It\^o stochastic differential equations (SDEs). We subdivide the time interval into sub-intervals, then we use the quadratic polynomials for the approximation between two successive intervals. The main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Faezeh Nassajian Mojarrad

We study parameter estimation for interacting particle systems (IPSs) consisting of $N$ weakly interacting multivariate hypoelliptic SDEs. We propose a locally Gaussian approximation of the transition dynamics, carefully designed to address…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Yuga Iguchi , Alexandros Beskos , Grigorios A. Pavliotis

The Vlasov-Poisson system describes interacting systems of collisionless particles. For solutions with small initial data in three dimensions it is known that the spatial density of particles decays like $t^{-3}$ at late times. In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hyung Ju Hwang , Alan D. Rendall , Juan J. L. Velazquez

In this paper, we derive fully implementable first order time-stepping schemes for McKean--Vlasov stochastic differential equations (McKean--Vlasov SDEs), allowing for a drift term with super-linear growth in the state component. We propose…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Jianhai Bao , Christoph Reisinger , Panpan Ren , Wolfgang Stockinger

We develop a unified PDE-probabilistic framework for pointwise gradient and Hessian estimates of Markov semigroups associated with stochastic differential equations with singular and unbounded coefficients. Under mild local structural…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Pengcheng Xia , Longjie Xie , Xicheng Zhang

This paper focuses on the strong convergence of the truncated $\theta$-Milstein method for a class of nonautonomous stochastic differential delay equations whose drift and diffusion coefficients can grow polynomially. The convergence rate,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Shuaibin Gao , Junhao Hu , Jie He , Qian Guo

This paper is dedicated to investigating the adaptive Euler-Maruyama (EM) schemes for the approximation of McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with common noise. When the drift and diffusion coefficients both satisfy the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Hu Liu , Shuaibin Gao , Junhao Hu

In this paper, we develop a semiparametric sensitivity analysis approach designed to address unmeasured confounding in observational studies with time-to-event outcomes. We target estimation of the marginal distributions of potential…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-21 Linda Amoafo , Shiyao Xu , Elizabeth Platz , Daniel Scharfstein