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Stochastic dynamical systems provide essential mathematical frameworks for modeling complex real-world phenomena. The Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov (FPK) equation governs the evolution of probability density functions associated with stochastic…

Computation · Statistics 2025-10-13 Yi Zhang , Yiting Duan , Xiangjun Wang , Zhikun Zhang

Solving the Fokker-Planck equation for high-dimensional complex dynamical systems remains a pivotal yet challenging task due to the intractability of analytical solutions and the limitations of traditional numerical methods. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Naoufal El Bekri , Lucas Drumetz , Franck Vermet

To capture and simulate geometric surface evolutions, one effective approach is based on the phase field methods. Among them, it is important to design and analyze numerical approximations whose error bound depends on the inverse of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Jianbo Cui

We propose a new Neural Galerkin Normalizing Flow framework to approximate the transition probability density function of a diffusion process by solving the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation with an atomic initial distribution,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Riccardo Saporiti , Fabio Nobile

A series of novel filters for probabilistic inference that propose an alternative way of performing Bayesian updates, called particle flow filters, have been attracting recent interest. These filters provide approximate solutions to…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-24 Flávio Eler De Melo , Simon Maskell , Matteo Fasiolo , Fred Daum

A probabilistic approach for estimating sample qualities for stochastic differential equations is introduced in this paper. The aim is to provide a quantitative upper bound of the distance between the invariant probability measure of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Matthew Dobson , Jiayu Zhai , Yao Li

We introduce a novel spatio-temporal discretization for nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations on the multi-dimensional unit cube. This discretization is based on two structural properties of these equations: the first is the representation as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Oliver Junge , Daniel Matthes , Horst Osberger

In this work, we systematically benchmark two recently developed deep density methods for nonlinear filtering. We model the filtering density of a discretely observed stochastic differential equation through the associated Fokker--Planck…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Kasper Bågmark , Filip Rydin

In the context of non-convex optimization, we let the temperature of a Langevin diffusion to depend on the diffusion's own density function. The rationale is that the induced density captures to some extent the landscape imposed by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Yu-Jui Huang , Zachariah Malik

In this work, we are interested in building the fully discrete scheme for stochastic fractional diffusion equation driven by fractional Brownian sheet which is temporally and spatially fractional with Hurst parameters $H_{1}, H_{2}…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-27 Daxin Nie , Jing Sun , Weihua Deng

This paper outlines an approach to the approximation of probability density functions by quadratic forms of weighted orthonormal basis functions with positive semi-definite Hermitian matrices of unit trace. Such matrices are called…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Igor G. Vladimirov

Efficient and accurate integration of stochastic (partial) differential equations with multiplicative noise can be obtained through a split-step scheme, which separates the integration of the deterministic part from that of the stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ivan Dornic , Hugues Chate , M. A. Munoz

The method of potential solutions of Fokker-Planck equations is used to develop a transport equation for the joint probability of N stochastic variables with Lochner's generalized Dirichlet distribution (R.H. Lochner, A Generalized…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 J. Bakosi , J. R. Ristorcelli

Estimating truncated density models is difficult, as these models have intractable normalising constants and hard to satisfy boundary conditions. Score matching can be adapted to solve the truncated density estimation problem, but requires…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-15 Daniel J. Williams , Song Liu

In this work, we consider the solvability of the Fokker-Planck equation with both time-dependent drift and diffusion coefficients by means of the similarity method. By the introduction of the similarity variable, the Fokker-Planck equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Wen-Tsan Lin , Choon-Lin Ho

We consider a nonlinear convex stochastic homogenization problem, in a stationary setting. In practice, the deterministic homogenized energy density can only be approximated by a random apparent energy density, obtained by solving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-04 Frederic Legoll , William Minvielle

The Fokker-Planck equation derived by Brown for the probability density function of the orientation of the magnetic moment of single domain particles is one of the basic equations in the theory of superparamagnetism. Usually this equation…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-28 N. V. Peskov

Mean-Field is an efficient way to approximate a posterior distribution in complex graphical models and constitutes the most popular class of Bayesian variational approximation methods. In most applications, the mean field distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Pierre Baqué , Jean-Hubert Hours , François Fleuret , Pascal Fua

We use the mean-field approximation to simplify the master equation for sympathetic cooling of Bosons. For the mean single-particle occupation numbers, this approach yields the same equations as the factorization assumption introduced in an…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 S. J. Wang , M. C. Nemes , A. N. Salgueiro , H. A. Weidenmueller

We propose a new semi-discretization scheme to approximate nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations, by exploiting the gradient flow structures with respect to the 2-Wasserstein metric. We discretize the underlying state by a finite graph and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Shui-Nee Chow , Luca Dieci , Wuchen Li , Haomin Zhou