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Impulse methods are generalized to a family of integrators for Langevin systems with quadratic stiff potentials and arbitrary soft potentials. Uniform error bounds (independent from stiff parameters) are obtained on integrated positions…

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Following on our previous work [S. Delong and B. E. Griffith and E. Vanden-Eijnden and A. Donev, Phys. Rev. E, 87(3):033302, 2013], we develop temporal integrators for solving Langevin stochastic differential equations that arise in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. Delong , Y. Sun , B. E. Griffith , E. Vanden-Eijnden , A. Donev

The viability of a variant of numerical stochastic perturbation theory, where the Langevin equation is replaced by the SMD algorithm, is examined. In particular, the convergence of the process to a unique stationary state is rigorously…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-06-02 Mattia Dalla Brida , Martin Lüscher

Stable concurrent learning and control of dynamical systems is the subject of adaptive control. Despite being an established field with many practical applications and a rich theory, much of the development in adaptive control for nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Nicholas M. Boffi , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

Sampling from a target distribution is a fundamental problem. Traditional Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, such as the unadjusted Langevin algorithm (ULA), derived from the overdamped Langevin dynamics, have been extensively…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Xinzhe Zuo , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

We study the exponential convergence to the stationary state for nonequilibrium Langevin dynamics, by a perturbative approach based on hypocoercive techniques developed for equilibrium Langevin dynamics. The Hamiltonian and overdamped…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-07-06 Alessandra Iacobucci , Stefano Olla , Gabriel Stoltz

We propose a family of optimization methods that achieve linear convergence using first-order gradient information and constant step sizes on a class of convex functions much larger than the smooth and strongly convex ones. This larger…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Chris J. Maddison , Daniel Paulin , Yee Whye Teh , Brendan O'Donoghue , Arnaud Doucet

We introduce a constructive framework to learn effective Langevin equations from stationary time series. Unlike conventional approaches that require iterative calibration to match target statistics, our construction guarantees the observed…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-16 Ludovico Theo Giorgini

The design of numerical integrators for solving stochastic dynamics with high weak order relies on tedious calculations and is subject to a high number of order conditions. The original approaches from the literature consider strong…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Adrien Busnot Laurent , Kristian Debrabant , Anne Kværnø

Sticky diffusion models a Markovian particle experiencing reflection and temporary adhesion phenomena at the boundary. Numerous numerical schemes exist for approximating stopped or reflected stochastic differential equations (SDEs), but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Akash Sharma

A large class of quantum and statistical field theoretical models, encompassing relevant condensed matter and non-abelian gauge systems, are defined in terms of complex actions. As the ordinary Monte-Carlo methods are useless in dealing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Moriconi , M. Moriconi

This paper considers the strong error analysis of the Euler and fast Euler methods for nonlinear overdamped generalized Langevin equations driven by the fractional noise. The main difficulty lies in handling the interaction between the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Xinjie Dai , Jialin Hong , Derui Sheng , Tau Zhou

Colloidal particles that experience perfectly elastic collisions can be modelled using Langevin processes with specular reflection conditions. The article presents a discretisation scheme and offers a conjecture for the rate of convergence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-30 Mireille Bossy , Radu Maftei , Jean-Pierre Minier , Christophe Profeta

We derive a new methodology for the construction of high order integrators for sampling the invariant measure of ergodic stochastic differential equations with dynamics constrained on a manifold. We obtain the order conditions for sampling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Adrien Laurent , Gilles Vilmart

This paper is concerned with the numerical approximation of stochastic mechanical systems with nonlinear holonomic constraints. Such systems are described by second order stochastic differential-algebraic equations involving an implicitly…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Felix Lindner , Holger Stroot

This paper considers the reduction of the Langevin equation arising from bio-molecular models. To facilitate the construction and implementation of the reduced models, the problem is formulated as a reduced-order modeling problem. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Lina Ma , Xiantao Li , Chun Liu

We consider numerical methods for thermodynamic sampling, i.e. computing sequences of points distributed according to the Gibbs-Boltzmann distribution, using Langevin dynamics and overdamped Langevin dynamics (Brownian dynamics). A wide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-13 Benedict Leimkuhler , Charles Matthews , Gabriel Stoltz

Variational integrators are derived for structure-preserving simulation of stochastic forced Hamiltonian systems. The derivation is based on a stochastic discrete Hamiltonian which approximates a type-II stochastic generating function for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Michael Kraus , Tomasz M. Tyranowski

For sampling from a log-concave density, we study implicit integrators resulting from $\theta$-method discretization of the overdamped Langevin diffusion stochastic differential equation. Theoretical and algorithmic properties of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-13 Liam Hodgkinson , Robert Salomone , Fred Roosta

We present a method for constructing numerical schemes with up to 3rd strong convergence order for solution of a class of stochastic differential equations, including equations of the Langevin type. The construction proceeds in two stages.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-04-08 Andrey Shkerin , Sergey Sibiryakov