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We introduce a lattice random walk discretisation scheme for stochastic differential equations (SDEs) that samples binary or ternary increments at each step, suppressing complex drift and diffusion computations to simple 1 or 2 bit random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Samuel Duffield , Maxwell Aifer , Denis Melanson , Zach Belateche , Patrick J. Coles

In this work, the primary goal is to establish rigorous connection between the Fokker-Planck equation of neural networks with its microscopic model: the diffusion-jump stochastic process that captures the mean field behavior of collections…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Jian-guo Liu , Ziheng Wang , Yuan Zhang , Zhennan Zhou

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) describe dynamical systems where deterministic flows, governed by a drift function, are superimposed with random fluctuations, dictated by a diffusion function. The accurate estimation (or discovery)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Patrick Seifner , Kostadin Cvejoski , David Berghaus , Cesar Ojeda , Ramses J. Sanchez

We formulate a new model for transport in stochastic media with long-range spatial correlations where exponential attenuation (controlling the propagation part of the transport) becomes power law. Direct transmission over optical distance…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-13 Anthony B. Davis , Feng Xu

We develop a new computational framework to solve the partial differential equations (PDEs) governing the flow of the joint probability density functions (PDFs) in continuous-time stochastic nonlinear systems. The need for computing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Kenneth F. Caluya , Abhishek Halder

We propose a general framework for conditional sampling in PDE-based inverse problems, targeting the recovery of whole solutions from extremely sparse or noisy measurements. This is accomplished by a function-space diffusion model and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jiachen Yao , Abbas Mammadov , Julius Berner , Gavin Kerrigan , Jong Chul Ye , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Anima Anandkumar

We present EDDY (Exact-marginal Diversification via Divergence-free dYnamics), a guidance mechanism for diffusion and flow matching models that promotes diversity among samples generated while maintaining quality. EDDY exploits symmetries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Gal Vinograd , Idan Achituve , Ethan Fetaya

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) using jump-diffusion processes describe many natural phenomena at the microscopic level. Since they are commonly used to model economic and financial evolutions, the calibration and optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Jan Bartsch , Alfio Borzi , Gabriele Ciaramella , Jan Reichle

This paper provides a systematic method to build wind speed models based on stochastic differential equations (SDEs). The resulting models produce stochastic processes with a given probability distribution and exponential decaying…

Applications · Statistics 2015-11-10 Rafael Zárate Miñano , Federico Milano

We develope a perturbation theory for stochastic differential equations (SDEs) by which we mean both stochastic ordinary differential equations (SODEs) and stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). In particular, we estimate the $…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Martin Hutzenthaler , Arnulf Jentzen

This paper motivates the use of random-bridges -- stochastic processes conditioned to take target distributions at fixed timepoints -- in the realm of generative modelling. Herein, random-bridges can act as stochastic transports between two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Stefano Goria , Levent A. Mengütürk , Murat C. Mengütürk , Berkan Sesen

Motivated by the computational difficulties incurred by popular deep learning algorithms for the generative modeling of temporal densities, we propose a cheap alternative which requires minimal hyperparameter tuning and scales favorably to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-13 Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse , Yunan Yang , Romit Maulik

We develop stochastic mixed finite element methods for spatially adaptive simulations of fluid-structure interactions when subject to thermal fluctuations. To account for thermal fluctuations, we introduce a discrete fluctuation-dissipation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Pat Plunkett , Jon Hu , Chris Siefert , Paul J. Atzberger

We consider a general one-dimensional overdamped diffusion model described by the It\^{o} stochastic differential equation (SDE) ${dX_t=\mu(X_t,t)dt+\sigma(X_t,t)dW_t}$, where $W_t$ is the standard Wiener process. We obtain a specific…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-09 Costantino Di Bello , Édgar Roldán , Ralf Metzler

In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework for nonlinear stochastic optimal control problems with optimal stopping by establishing a density-based deterministic representation of the underlying diffusion. For state-independent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Akan Selim , Siddhartha Ganguly , Ali Pakniyat , Panagiotis Tsiotras

The present work considers diffusive shock acceleration at non-relativistic shocks using a system of stochastic differential equations (SDE) equivalent to the Fokker-Planck equation. We compute approximate solutions of the transport of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Marcowith , J. G. Kirk

We explore the derivation of distributed parameter system evolution laws (and in particular, partial differential operators and associated partial differential equations, PDEs) from spatiotemporal data. This is, of course, a classical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-18 Hassan Arbabi , Felix P. Kemeth , Tom Bertalan , Ioannis Kevrekidis

In this paper we study second order stochastic differential equations with measurable and density-distribution dependent coefficients. Through establishing a maximum principle for kinetic Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equations with…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Xicheng Zhang

Generating graph-structured data is a challenging problem, which requires learning the underlying distribution of graphs. Various models such as graph VAE, graph GANs, and graph diffusion models have been proposed to generate meaningful and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tianze Luo , Zhanfeng Mo , Sinno Jialin Pan

Neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) provide expressive representations of invertible transport maps that can be used to approximate complex probability distributions, e.g., for generative modeling, density estimation, and Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Youssef Marzouk , Zhi Ren , Jakob Zech