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How much can randomness help computation? Motivated by this general question and by volume computation, one of the few instances where randomness provably helps, we analyze a notion of dispersion and connect it to asymptotic convex…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-06-17 Luis Rademacher , Santosh Vempala

We apply a recently developed framework for analyzing the convergence of stochastic algorithms to the general problem of large-scale nonconvex composite optimization more generally, and nonconvex likelihood maximization in particular. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-25 D. Russell Luke , Steffen Schultze , Helmut Grubmüller

In this paper, we investigate a continuous time version of the Stochastic Langevin Monte Carlo method, introduced in [WT11], that incorporates a stochastic sampling step inside the traditional over-damped Langevin diffusion. This method is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-10 Marelys Crespo Navas , Sébastien Gadat , Xavier Gendre

The stochastic motion in a nonhomogeneous medium with traps is studied and diffusion properties of that system are discussed. The particle is subjected to a stochastic stimulation obeying a general L\'evy stable statistics and experiences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tomasz Srokowski

The application of the diffusion in many computer vision and artificial intelligence projects has been shown to give excellent improvements in performance. One of the main bottlenecks of this technique is the quadratic growth of the kNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Federico Magliani , Kevin McGuinness , Eva Mohedano , Andrea Prati

We present a new approach for random sampling of contingency tables of any size and constraints based on a recently introduced $\textit{probabilistic divide-and-conquer}$ technique. A simple exact sampling algorithm is presented for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Stephen DeSalvo , James Y. Zhao

We study the Hausdorff distance between a random polytope, defined as the convex hull of i.i.d. random points, and the convex hull of the support of their distribution. As particular examples, we consider uniform distributions on convex…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-05 Victor-Emmanuel Brunel

We introduce $\varepsilon$-projectors, using which we can sample from limiting distributions of continuous-time quantum walks. The standard algorithm for sampling from a distribution that is close to the limiting distribution of a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Javad Doliskani

We study the statistical properties of the convex hull of a planar run-and-tumble particle (RTP), also known as the "persistent random walk", where the particle/walker runs ballistically between tumble events at which it changes its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-25 Alexander K Hartmann , Satya N Majumdar , Hendrik Schawe , Grégory Schehr

In order to approximate the exit time of a one-dimensional diffusion process, we propose an algorithm based on a random walk. Such an algorithm was already introduced in both the Brownian context and in the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck context. Here…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Samuel Herrmann , Nicolas Massin

In this article, we generalize the recent Discrete Time Random Walk (DTRW) algorithm, which was introduced for the computation of probability densities of fractional diffusion. Although it has the same computational complexity and shares…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Gurtek Gill , Peter Straka

We propose a variety of models of random walk, discrete in space and time, suitable for simulating stable random variables of arbitrary index $\alpha$ ($0< \alpha \le 2$), in the symmetric case. We show that by properly scaled transition to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rudolf Gorenflo , Gianni De Fabritiis , Francesco Mainardi

We present a new algorithm to optimize distributions defined implicitly by parameterized stochastic diffusions. Doing so allows us to modify the outcome distribution of sampling processes by optimizing over their parameters. We introduce a…

We present an inference-time diffusion sampling method to perform multi-view consistent image editing using pre-trained 2D image editing models. These models can independently produce high-quality edits for each image in a set of multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Hadi Alzayer , Yunzhi Zhang , Chen Geng , Jia-Bin Huang , Jiajun Wu

In this paper, we propose and analyze a new stochastic homogenization method for diffusion equations with random and fast oscillatory coefficients. In the proposed method, the homogenized solutions are sought through a two-stage procedure.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Zihao Yang , Jizu Huang , Xiaobing Feng , Xiaofei Guan

In this article we investigate the asymptotic behavior of a new class of multi-dimensional diffusions in random environment. We introduce cut times in the spirit of the work done by Bolthausen, Sznitman and Zeitouni, see [4], in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-12-12 Ivan del Tenno

We analyze the hit-and-run algorithm for sampling uniformly from an isotropic convex body $K$ in $n$ dimensions. We show that the algorithm mixes in time $\tilde{O}(n^2/ \psi_n^2)$, where $\psi_n$ is the smallest isoperimetric constant for…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Yuansi Chen , Ronen Eldan

This paper considers a distributed stochastic strongly convex optimization, where agents connected over a network aim to cooperatively minimize the average of all agents' local cost functions. Due to the stochasticity of gradient estimation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Jinlong Lei , Peng Yi , Jie Chen , Yiguang Hong

Let $\tau = (\tau_i : i \in {\Bbb Z})$ denote i.i.d.~positive random variables with common distribution $F$ and (conditional on $\tau$) let $X = (X_t : t\geq0, X_0=0)$, be a continuous-time simple symmetric random walk on ${\Bbb Z}$ with…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 L. R. G. Fontes , M. Isopi , C. M. Newman

Recently, a series of papers proposed deep learning-based approaches to sample from target distributions using controlled diffusion processes, being trained only on the unnormalized target densities without access to samples. Building on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Lorenz Richter , Julius Berner