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Partial differential equations (PDEs) with spatially-varying coefficients arise throughout science and engineering, modeling rich heterogeneous material behavior. Yet conventional PDE solvers struggle with the immense complexity found in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Rohan Sawhney , Dario Seyb , Wojciech Jarosz , Keenan Crane

Modeling physical phenomena like heat transport and diffusion is crucially dependent on the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). A PDE solver finds the solution given coefficients and a boundary condition, whereas an…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Ekrem Fatih Yılmazer , Delio Vicini , Wenzel Jakob

Grid-free Monte Carlo methods such as walk on spheres can be used to solve elliptic partial differential equations without mesh generation or global solves. However, such methods independently estimate the solution at every point, and hence…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Bailey Miller , Rohan Sawhney , Keenan Crane , Ioannis Gkioulekas

We present projected walk on spheres (PWoS), a novel pointwise and discretization-free Monte Carlo solver for surface PDEs with Dirichlet boundaries, as a generalization of the walk on spheres method (WoS) [Muller 1956; Sawhney and Crane…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Ryusuke Sugimoto , Nathan King , Toshiya Hachisuka , Christopher Batty

Grid-free Monte Carlo methods based on the walk on spheres (WoS) algorithm solve fundamental partial differential equations (PDEs) like the Poisson equation without discretizing the problem domain or approximating functions in a finite…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Rohan Sawhney , Bailey Miller , Ioannis Gkioulekas , Keenan Crane

Nonlinear differential equations (DEs) are used in a wide range of scientific problems to model complex dynamic systems. The differential equations often contain unknown parameters that are of scientific interest, which have to be estimated…

Computation · Statistics 2021-09-07 Shijia Wang , Shufei Ge , Renny Doig , Liangliang Wang

Walk on Spheres algorithms leverage properties of Brownian Motion to create Monte Carlo estimates of solutions to a class of elliptic partial differential equations. We propose a new caching strategy which leverages the continuity of paths…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Michael Czekanski , Benjamin Faber , Margaret Fairborn , Adelle Wright , David Bindel

The accurate numerical solution of partial differential equations is a central task in numerical analysis allowing to model a wide range of natural phenomena by employing specialized solvers depending on the scenario of application. Here,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Moritz Reh , Martin Gärttner

In this article, we propose a new numerical approach to high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) arising in the valuation of exotic derivative securities. The proposed method is extended from Reisinger and Wittum (2007) and…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-10-04 Christoph Reisinger , Rasmus Wissmann

We consider the problem of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in domains with complex microparticle geometry that is impractical, or intractable, to model explicitly. Drawing inspiration from volume rendering, we propose tackling…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Bailey Miller , Rohan Sawhney , Keenan Crane , Ioannis Gkioulekas

We present an initial implementation of a probabilistic PDE-constrained shape optimization algorithm. Our method is based on a novel probabilistic representation of the shape derivative, which is evaluated using Monte Carlo sampling; and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Stephan Schmidt , Maximilian Würschmidt

Stochastic PDE solvers have emerged as a powerful alternative to traditional discretization-based methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), especially in geometry processing and graphics. While off-centered estimators…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Anchang Bao , Jie Xu , Enya Shen , Jianmin Wang

Partial differential equation (PDE) solvers underpin scientific computing, but real-world deployment is bounded by compute. Classical Monte Carlo solvers such as Walk-on-Spheres (WoS) are unbiased and geometry-agnostic but are slow. Learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ethan Hsu , Hong Meng Yam , Ivan Ge

Training neural PDE solvers is often bottlenecked by expensive data generation or unstable physics-informed neural network (PINN) involving challenging optimization landscapes due to higher-order derivatives. To tackle this issue, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Hrishikesh Viswanath , Hong Chul Nam , Xi Deng , Julius Berner , Anima Anandkumar , Aniket Bera

The multiscale complexity of modern problems in computational science and engineering can prohibit the use of traditional numerical methods in multi-dimensional simulations. Therefore, novel algorithms are required in these situations to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Cale Harnish , Luke Dalessandro , Karel Matous , Daniel Livescu

We introduce the walk-on-boundary (WoB) method for solving boundary value problems to computer graphics. WoB is a grid-free Monte Carlo solver for certain classes of second order partial differential equations. A similar Monte Carlo solver,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ryusuke Sugimoto , Terry Chen , Yiti Jiang , Christopher Batty , Toshiya Hachisuka

We propose Neural Walk-on-Spheres (NWoS), a novel neural PDE solver for the efficient solution of high-dimensional Poisson equations. Leveraging stochastic representations and Walk-on-Spheres methods, we develop novel losses for neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Hong Chul Nam , Julius Berner , Anima Anandkumar

We introduce a novel mesh-free and direct method for computing the shape derivative in PDE-constrained shape optimization problems. Our approach is based on a probabilistic representation of the shape derivative and is applicable for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Luka Schlegel , Volker Schulz , Frank T. Seifried , Maximilian Würschmidt

We develop walk-on-sphere for fractional Poisson equations with Dirichilet boundary conditions in high dimensions. The walk-on-sphere method is based on probabilistic represen tation of the fractional Poisson equation. We propose effcient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Caiyu Jiao , Changpin Li , Hexiang Wang , Zhongqiang Zhang

In this note we shall introduce a simple, effective numerical method for solving partial differential equations for scalar and vector-valued data defined on surfaces. Even though we shall follow the traditional way to approximate the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-07-13 Sheng-Gwo Chen , Mei-Hsiu Chi , Jyh-Yang Wu
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