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Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Tiziano De Angelis , Maximilien Germain , Elena Issoglio

Optimal transport is a foundational problem in optimization, that allows to compare probability distributions while taking into account geometric aspects. Its optimal objective value, the Wasserstein distance, provides an important loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Marin Ballu , Quentin Berthet , Francis Bach

We consider a $d$-dimensional stochastic differential equation (SDE) of the form $d U_t = b(U_t) dt + \sigma\,d Z_t$, let $X_t$ be the solution if the driving noise $Z_t$ is a $d$-dimensional rotationally symmetric $\alpha$-stable process…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Changsong Deng , Xiang Li , Rene L. Schilling , Lihu Xu

Classic optimal transport theory is formulated through minimizing the expected transport cost between two given distributions. We propose the framework of distorted optimal transport by minimizing a distorted expected cost, which is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Haiyan Liu , Bin Wang , Ruodu Wang , Sheng Chao Zhuang

This paper deals with partially-observed optimal control problems for the state governed by stochastic differential equation with delay. We develop a stochastic maximum principle for this kind of optimal control problems using a variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Shuaiqi Zhang , Xun Li , Jie Xiong

We provide an analysis of the squared Wasserstein-2 ($W_2$) distance between two probability distributions associated with two stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Based on this analysis, we propose the use of a squared $W_2$…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Mingtao Xia , Xiangting Li , Qijing Shen , Tom Chou

Split conformal prediction provides finite-sample marginal coverage under exchangeability, but this guarantee averages over the random calibration sample. We study instead the law of the calibration-conditional coverage induced by a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-20 Thiago R. Ramos , Helton Graziadei , Luben M. C. Cabezas

We propose a new approach to measuring the agreement between two oscillatory time series, such as seismic waveforms, and demonstrate that it can be employed effectively in inverse problems. Our approach is based on Optimal Transport theory…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-07-01 Malcolm Sambridge , Andrew Jackson , Andrew P. Valentine

In recent years, interest in approximation methods for stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with non-Lipschitz continuous coefficients has increased. We show lower bounds for the $L^p$-error of such methods in the case of approximation…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Simon Ellinger

Coupling by reflection mixed with synchronous coupling is constructed for a class of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) driven by L\'{e}vy noises. As an application, we establish the exponential contractivity of the associated…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-18 Jian Wang

In this article, we introduce a system of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) consisting of time-dependent covariates and consider both fixed and random effects set-ups. We also allow the functional part associated with the drift…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Trisha Maitra , Sourabh Bhattacharya

We study properties of causal couplings for probability measures on the space of continuous functions. We first provide a characterization of bicausal couplings between weak solutions of stochastic differential equations. We then provide a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Rama Cont , Fang Rui Lim

This paper deals with the large-scale behaviour of dynamical optimal transport on $\mathbb{Z}^d$-periodic graphs with general lower semicontinuous and convex energy densities. Our main contribution is a homogenisation result that describes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Peter Gladbach , Eva Kopfer , Jan Maas , Lorenzo Portinale

In this paper we study coupled fast-slow ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with small time scale separation parameter $\epsilon$ such that, for every fixed value of the slow variable, the fast dynamics are sufficiently chaotic with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Maximilian Engel , Marios-Antonios Gkogkas , Christian Kuehn

Optimal Transport has sparked vivid interest in recent years, in particular thanks to the Wasserstein distance, which provides a geometrically sensible and intuitive way of comparing probability measures. For computational reasons, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Eloi Tanguy

In the recent article [Hairer, M., Hutzenthaler, M., Jentzen, A., Loss of regularity for Kolmogorov equations, Ann. Probab. 43 (2015), no. 2, 468--527] it has been shown that there exist stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Arnulf Jentzen , Thomas Müller-Gronbach , Larisa Yaroslavtseva

We prove existence of a stochastic flow of diffeomorphisms generated by SDEs with drift in $L^q_t C^{0, \alpha}_x$ for any $q \in [2, \infty)$ and $\alpha \in (0, 1)$. This result is achieved using a Zvonkin-type transformation for the SDE.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Magnus C. Ørke

We propose a semi-discrete numerical scheme and establish well-posedness of a class of parabolic systems. Such systems naturally arise while studying the optimal control of grain boundary motions. The latter is typically described using a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Harbir Antil , Ken Shirakawa , Noriaki Yamazaki

We consider entropically regularized, semi-discrete versions of variational problems on the set of probability measures involving optimal transport as well as other terms. We prove that the solutions can be characterized by well-posed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Adrien Cances , Luca Nenna , Daniyar Omarov , Brendan Pass

We extend the taming techniques for explicit Euler approximations of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) driven by L\'evy noise with super-linearly growing drift coefficients. Strong convergence results are presented for the case of…

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