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We introduce a recent symplectic integration scheme derived for solving physically motivated systems with non-separable Hamiltonians. We show its relevance to Riemannian manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (RMHMC) and provide an alternative to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-15 Adam D. Cobb , Atılım Güneş Baydin , Andrew Markham , Stephen J. Roberts

Most numerical integration algorithms are not designed specifically for Hamiltonian systems and do not respect their characteristic properties, which include the preservation of phase space volume with time. This can lead to spurious…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 David JD Earn

Geometric numerical integration has recently been exploited to design symplectic accelerated optimization algorithms by simulating the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems from the variational framework introduced in Wibisono et al. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Valentin Duruisseaux , Melvin Leok

We put forward the use of total-variation-diminishing (or more generally, strong stability preserving) implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta methods for the time integration of the equations of motion associated with the semiconvection problem in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-09 Friedrich Kupka , Natalie Happenhofer , Inmaculada Higueras , Othmar Koch

It has previously been shown that varying the numerical timestep during a symplectic orbital integration leads to a random walk in energy and angular momentum, destroying the phase space-conserving property of symplectic integrators. Here…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nathan A. Kaib , Thomas Quinn , Ramon Brasser

We prove that a class of A-stable symplectic Runge--Kutta time semidiscretizations (including the Gauss--Legendre methods) applied to a class of semilinear Hamiltonian PDEs which are well-posed on spaces of analytic functions with analytic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Claudia Wulff , Marcel Oliver

Optimization tasks are crucial in statistical machine learning. Recently, there has been great interest in leveraging tools from dynamical systems to derive accelerated and robust optimization methods via suitable discretizations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-06 Guilherme França , Alessandro Barp , Mark Girolami , Michael I. Jordan

Hamiltonian systems are one of the most important class of dynamical systems with a geometric structure called symplecticity and the numerical algorithms which can preserve such geometric structure are of interest. In this article we study…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-16 Wensheng Tang , Guangming Lang , Xuqiong Luo

Explicit symplectic integrators have been important tools for accurate and efficient approximations of mechanical systems with separable Hamiltonians. For the first time, the article proposes for arbitrary Hamiltonians similar integrators,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Molei Tao

Two specialized algorithms for the numerical integration of the equations of motion of a Brownian walker obeying detailed balance are introduced. The algorithms become symplectic in the appropriate limits, and reproduce the equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 R Mannella

There exist many Runge-Kutta methods (explicit or implicit), more or less adapted to specific problems. Some of them have interesting properties, such as stability for stiff problems or symplectic capability for problems with energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-16 Julien Alexandre dit Sandretto

The superiority of symplectic methods for stochastic Hamiltonian systems has been widely recognized, yet the probabilistic mechanism behind this superiority remains incompletely understood. This paper studies the superiority of symplectic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Jialin Hong , Ge Liang , Derui Sheng

Symplectic integration algorithms are well-suited for long-term integrations of Hamiltonian systems because they preserve the geometric structure of the Hamiltonian flow. However, this desirable property is generally lost when adaptive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 Miguel Preto , Scott Tremaine

The recently-introduced relaxation approach for Runge-Kutta methods can be used to enforce conservation of energy in the integration of Hamiltonian systems. We study the behavior of implicit and explicit relaxation Runge-Kutta methods in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Hendrik Ranocha , David I. Ketcheson

Applied to the master equation, the usual numerical integration methods, such as Runge-Kutta, become inefficient when the rates associated with various transitions differ by several orders of magnitude. We introduce an integration scheme…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ronald Dickman

Hamilton's equations are fundamental for modeling complex physical systems, where preserving key properties such as energy and momentum is crucial for reliable long-term simulations. Geometric integrators are widely used for this purpose,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Priscilla Canizares , Davide Murari , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ferdia Sherry , Zakhar Shumaylov

We explore the construction of new symplectic numerical integration schemes to be used in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and study their efficiency. Two integration schemes from Blanes et al. (2014), and a new scheme based on optimal acceptance…

Computation · Statistics 2016-08-26 Janne Mannseth , Tore Selland Kleppe , Hans J. Skaug

Time integration of Fourier pseudo-spectral DNS is usually performed using the classical fourth-order accurate Runge--Kutta method, or other methods of second or third order, with a fixed step size. We investigate the use of higher-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-11 David I. Ketcheson , Mikael Mortensen , Matteo Parsani , Nathanael Schilling

The rapid advancements in high-dimensional statistics and machine learning have increased the use of first-order methods. Many of these methods can be regarded as instances of the proximal point algorithm. Given the importance of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Ya-xiang Yuan , Yi Zhang

This letter studies symmetric and symplectic exponential integrators when applied to numerically computing nonlinear Hamiltonian systems. We first establish the symmetry and symplecticity conditions of exponential integrators and then show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Yajun Wu , Bin Wang