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This paper analyses the finite element component of the error when using preintegration to approximate the cdf and pdf for uncertainty quantification (UQ) problems involving elliptic PDEs with random inputs. It is a follow up to Gilbert,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Alexander D. Gilbert

In this paper, we analyse a method for approximating the distribution function and density of a random variable that depends in a non-trivial way on a possibly high number of independent random variables, each with support on the whole real…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Alexander D. Gilbert , Frances Y. Kuo , Ian H. Sloan

In a previous paper (J. Comp. Phys. 230 (2011), 3668--3694), the authors proposed a new practical method for computing expected values of functionals of solutions for certain classes of elliptic partial differential equations with random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Ivan G. Graham , Frances Y. Kuo , Dirk Nuyens , Rob Scheichl , Ian H. Sloan

This article provides a survey of recent research efforts on the application of quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods to elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with random diffusion coefficients. It considers, and contrasts, the uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Frances Y. Kuo , Dirk Nuyens

This study analyzes the nonasymptotic convergence behavior of the quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) method with applications to linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with lognormal coefficients. Building upon the error analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Yang Liu , Raúl Tempone

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are applied to multi-level Finite Element (FE) discretizations of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with a random coefficient, to estimate expected values of linear functionals of the solution.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-16 Frances Y. Kuo , Christoph Schwab , Ian H. Sloan

We study the application of a tailored quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) method to a class of optimal control problems subject to parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) constraints under uncertainty: the state in our setting is the solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Philipp A. Guth , Vesa Kaarnioja , Frances Y. Kuo , Claudia Schillings , Ian H. Sloan

We consider the problem of estimating an expectation $ \mathbb{E}\left[ h(W)\right]$ by quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods, where $ h $ is an unbounded smooth function on $ \mathbb{R}^d $ and $ W$ is a standard normal distributed random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Du Ouyang , Xiaoqun Wang , Zhijian He

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) integration of output functionals of solutions of the diffusion problem with a log-normal random coefficient is considered. The random coefficient is assumed to be given by an exponential of a Gaussian random field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Yoshihito Kazashi

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) integration over unbounded domains $\mathbb{R}^s$ remains challenging due to the high dimensionality of sampling space and the boundary growth of the integrand. In applications such as uncertainty quantification…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Zexin Pan , Du Ouyang , Zhijian He

Stochastic PDE eigenvalue problems often arise in the field of uncertainty quantification, whereby one seeks to quantify the uncertainty in an eigenvalue, or its eigenfunction. In this paper we present an efficient multilevel quasi-Monte…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Alexander D. Gilbert , Robert Scheichl

Stochastic PDE eigenvalue problems are useful models for quantifying the uncertainty in several applications from the physical sciences and engineering, e.g., structural vibration analysis, the criticality of a nuclear reactor or photonic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Alexander D. Gilbert , Robert Scheichl

Estimating the density of a continuous random variable X has been studied extensively in statistics, in the setting where n independent observations of X are given a priori and one wishes to estimate the density from that. Popular methods…

Computation · Statistics 2021-09-09 Pierre L'Ecuyer , Florian Puchhammer

In this study, we consider the development of tailored quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) cubatures for non-conforming discontinuous Galerkin (DG) approximations of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with random coefficients. We consider…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Vesa Kaarnioja , Andreas Rupp

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are equal weight quadrature rules to approximate integrals over the unit cube with respect to the uniform measure. In this paper we discuss QMC integration with respect to general product measures defined on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Josef Dick , Friedrich Pillichshammer

There has been a surge of interest in uncertainty quantification for parametric partial differential equations (PDEs) with Gevrey regular inputs. The Gevrey class contains functions that are infinitely smooth with a growth condition on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Philipp A. Guth , Vesa Kaarnioja

Density estimation is a central task in statistics and machine learning. This problem aims to determine the underlying probability density function that best aligns with an observed data set. Some of its applications include statistical…

Quantum Monte Carlo integration (QMCI) is a quantum algorithm to estimate expectations of random variables, with applications in various industrial fields such as financial derivative pricing. When QMCI is applied to expectations concerning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Koichi Miyamoto

We study quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) integration over the multi-dimensional unit cube in several weighted function spaces with different smoothness classes. We consider approximating the integral of a function by the median of several integral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Takashi Goda , Kosuke Suzuki , Makoto Matsumoto

Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for estimating integrals are attractive since the resulting estimators typically converge at a faster rate than pseudo-random Monte Carlo. However, they can be difficult to set up on arbitrary posterior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Tobias Schwedes , Ben Calderhead
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