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Motion under stochastic resetting serves to model a myriad of processes in physics and beyond, but in most cases studied to date resetting to the origin was assumed to take zero time or a time decoupled from the spatial position at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-27 Arnab Pal , Łukasz Kuśmierz , Shlomi Reuveni

Random walks are fundamental models of stochastic processes with applications in various fields including physics, biology, and computer science. We study classical and quantum random walks under the influence of stochastic resetting on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-20 Sascha Wald , Lucas Böttcher

We derive the characteristic function of stochastic functionals of a random walk whose position is reset to the origin at random times drawn from a general probability distribution. We analyze the long-time behavior and obtain the temporal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-09 V. Méndez , R. Flaquer-Galmés

We study a class of stochastic resetting (SR) processes in which a diffusing particle alternates between free motion and confinement by an externally controlled potential. When the particle is recaptured, it undergoes a return trajectory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-19 Derek Frydel

We consider biased random walks on random networks constituted by a random comb comprising a backbone with quenched-disordered random-length branches. The backbone and the branches run in the direction of the bias. For the bare model as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-09 Mrinal Sarkar , Shamik Gupta

In this minireview we present the main results regarding the transport properties of stochastic movement with relocations to known positions. To do so, we formulate the problem in a general manner to see several cases extensively studied…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-23 Axel Masó-Puigdellosas , Daniel Campos , Vicenç Méndez

Randomized algorithms sometimes employ a restart strategy. After a certain number of steps, the current computation is aborted and restarted with a new, independent random seed. In some cases, this results in an improved overall expected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Jan-Hendrik Lorenz

We introduce \emph{proxitaxis}, a simple search strategy where the searcher has only information about the distance from the target but not the direction. The strategy consists of three crucial components: (i) local adaptive moves with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-14 Giuseppe Del Vecchio Del Vecchio , Manas Kulkarni , Satya N. Majumdar , Sanjib Sabhapandit

We consider a one dimensional random walk in random environment that is uniformly biased to one direction. In addition to the transition probability, the jump rate of the random walk is assumed to be spatially inhomogeneous and random. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Amir Dembo , Ryoki Fukushima , Naoki Kubota

The random walk with choice is a well known variation to the random walk that first selects a subset of $d$ neighbours nodes and then decides to move to the node which maximizes the value of a certain metric; this metric captures the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-07-20 John Alexandris , Gregory Karagiorgos 'and' Ioannis Stavrakakis

We present analytical investigations of a multiplicative stochastic process that models a simple investor dynamics in a random environment. The dynamics of the investor's budget, $x(t)$, depends on the stochasticity of the return on…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2009-11-13 Emeterio Navarro , Ruben Cantero , Joao Rodrigues , Frank Schweitzer

We revisit the simple lattice random walk (P\'{o}lya walk) and the Sisyphus random walk in $\mathbb{Z}$, in the presence of random restarts. We use a relatively direct approach namely First passage under restart for discrete space and time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-04 Ofek Lauber Bonomo , Arnab Pal

Intermittent stochastic processes appear in a wide field, such as chemistry, biology, ecology, and computer science. This paper builds up the theory of intermittent continuous time random walk (CTRW) and L\'{e}vy walk, in which the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-20 Tian Zhou , Pengbo Xu , Weihua Deng

Stochastic resetting is a rapidly developing topic in the field of stochastic processes and their applications. It denotes the occasional reset of a diffusing particle to its starting point and effects, inter alia, optimal first-passage…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-25 C. Di Bello , A. V. Chechkin , A. K. Hartmann , Z. Palmowski , R. Metzler

Resetting is a renewal mechanism in which a process is intermittently repeated after a random or fixed time. This simple act of stop and repeat profoundly influences the behaviour of a system as exemplified by the emergence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-22 Saikat Santra , Prashant Singh

Standard algorithms for finding the shortest path in a graph require that the cost of a path be additive in edge costs, and typically assume that costs are deterministic. We consider the problem of uncertain edge costs, with potential…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Michael P. Wellman , Matthew Ford , Kenneth Larson

There is a growing body of work on sorting and selection in models other than the unit-cost comparison model. This work is the first treatment of a natural stochastic variant of the problem where the cost of comparing two elements is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-10-02 Stanislav Angelov , Keshav Kunal , Andrew McGregor

We revisit the Stochastic Knapsack problem, where a policy-maker chooses an execution order for jobs with fixed values and stochastic running-times, aiming to maximize the value completed by a deadline. Dean et al. (FOCS'04) show that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Zohar Barak , Asnat Berlin , Ilan Reuven Cohen , Alon Eden , Omri Porat , Inbal Talgam-Cohen

We consider a mortal random walker evolving with discrete time on a network, where transitions follow a degree-biased Markovian navigation strategy. The walker starts with a random initial budget $T_1 \in \mathbb{N}$ and must maintain a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-19 Thomas M. Michelitsch , Alejandro P. Riascos

Metadynamics is a powerful method to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations, but its efficiency critically depends on the identification of collective variables that capture the slow modes of the process. Unfortunately, collective…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Ofir Blumer , Shlomi Reuveni , Barak Hirshberg