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The macroscopic behavior of dissipative stochastic partial differential equations usually can be described by a finite dimensional system. This article proves that a macroscopic reduced model may be constructed for stochastic…

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This paper interprets the stabilized finite element method via residual minimization as a variational multiscale method. We approximate the solution to the partial differential equations using two discrete spaces that we build on a…

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This paper is concerned with solutions to a one dimensional linear diffusion equation and their relation to some problems in stochastic control theory. A stochastic variational formula is obtained for the logarithm of the solution to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-12-02 Joseph G. Conlon , Mohar Guha

Recent advances in diffusion models attempt to handle conditional generative tasks by utilizing a differentiable loss function for guidance without the need for additional training. While these methods achieved certain success, they often…

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We consider a stochastic control problem where the set of strict (classical) controls is not necessarily convex and the the variable control has two components, the first being absolutely continuous and the second singular. The system is…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-20 Seid Bahlali

In this paper we study a Markovian two-dimensional bounded-variation stochastic control problem whose state process consists of a diffusive mean-reverting component and of a purely controlled one. The main problem's characteristic lies in…

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Although diffusion models now occupy a central place in generative modeling, introductory treatments commonly assume Euclidean data and seldom clarify their connection to discrete-state analogues. This article is a self-contained primer on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-05 Vincent Pauline , Tobias Höppe , Kirill Neklyudov , Alexander Tong , Stefan Bauer , Andrea Dittadi

Diffusion models perform remarkably well on high-dimensional data such as images, often using only a modest number of reverse-time steps. Despite this practical success, existing convergence theory does not fully explain why such samplers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ahmad Aghapour , Erhan Bayraktar

When the nonconvex problem is complicated by stochasticity, the sample complexity of stochastic first-order methods may depend linearly on the problem dimension, which is undesirable for large-scale problems. To alleviate this linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Yue Xie , Jiawen Bi , Hongcheng Liu

We present a new methodology for studying non-Hamiltonian nonlinear systems based on an information theoretic extension of a renormalization group technique using a modified maximum entropy principle. We obtain a rigorous dimensionally…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 M. Schmuck , M. Pradas , S. Kalliadasis , G. A. Pavliotis

In this paper, we propose a novel unstructured mesh control volume method to deal with the space fractional derivative on arbitrarily shaped convex domains, which to the best of our knowledge is a new contribution to the literature.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Libo Feng , Fawang Liu , Ian Turner

The purpose of this paper is to establish first and second order necessary optimality conditions for optimal control problems of stochastic evolution equations with control and state constraints. The control acts both in the drift and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Hélène Frankowska , Qi Lü

We study a large deviation principle for a system of stochastic reaction--diffusion equations (SRDEs) with a separation of fast and slow components and small noise in the slow component. The derivation of the large deviation principle is…

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This paper is concerned with a discounted stochastic optimal control problem for regime switching diffusion in an infinite horizon. First, as a preliminary with particular interests in its own right, the global well-posedness of infinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Kai Ding , Xun Li , Siyu Lv , Xin Zhang

In this paper, the problem of full state approximation by model reduction is studied for stochastic and bilinear systems. Our proposed approach relies on identifying the dominant subspaces based on the reachability Gramian of a system. Once…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Martin Redmann , Igor Pontes Duff

We analyze structure-preserving model order reduction methods for Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes and linear S(P)DEs with multiplicative noise based on balanced truncation. For the first time, we include in this study the analysis of non-zero…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Simon Becker , Carsten Hartmann , Martin Redmann , Lorenz Richter

In this paper, we solve an open problem and obtain a general maximum principle for a stochastic optimal control problem where the control domain is an arbitrary non-empty set and all the coefficients (especially the diffusion term and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Weijun Meng , Jingtao Shi , Tianxiao Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

This paper extends backstepping to higher-dimensional PDEs by leveraging domain symmetries and structural properties. We systematically address three increasingly complex scenarios. First, for rectangular domains, we characterize boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Rafael Vazquez

Existing theoretical stabilization results for linear, hyperbolic multi-dimensional problems are extended to the discretized multi-dimensional problems. In contrast to existing theoretical and numerical analysis in the spatially…

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