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A numerical scheme for approximating the nonlinear filtering density is introduced and its convergence rate is established, theoretically under a parabolic H\"{o}rmander condition, and empirically in numerical examples. In a prediction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Kasper Bågmark , Adam Andersson , Stig Larsson , Filip Rydin

We develop a finite difference scheme based on a grid staggered by flux points and solution points to solve Fokker-Planck equations with drift-admitting jumps. To satisfy the matching conditions at the jumps, i.e., the continuities of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-26 Yaming Chen , Xiaogang Deng

The goal of this work is to find the sharp rate of convergence to equilibrium under the quadratic Fisher information functional for solutions to Fokker-Planck equations governed by a constant drift term and a constant, yet possibly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Anton Arnold , Amit Einav , Tobias Wöhrer

We present a new strategy to approximate the global solution of the Fokker-Planck equation efficiently in higher dimensions and show its convergence. The main ingredients are the Euler scheme to solve the associated stochastic differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Max Jensen , Fabian Merle , Andreas Prohl

This contribution presents a derivation of the steady-state distribution of velocities and distances of vehicles in freeway traffic which has been suggested for the evaluation of interaction potentials among vehicles (see preprint…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing , Martin Treiber

We consider a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation governing the evolution of the density of interacting and diffusive matter in the space of positions and velocities. We use a probabilistic interpretation to obtain convergence towards equilibrium…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-19 Francois Bolley , Arnaud Guillin , Florent Malrieu

This letter is devoted to results on intermediate asymptotics for the heat equation. We study the convergence towards a stationary solution in self-similar variables. By assuming the equality of some moments of the initial data and of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-08-18 Jean-Philippe Bartier , Adrien Blanchet , Jean Dolbeault , Miguel Escobedo

We consider the Fokker-Planck equation with a strong external magnetic field. Global-in-time solutions are built near the Maxwellian, the global equilibrium state for the system. Moreover, we prove the convergence to equilibrium at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Zeinab Karaki

Jarzynski's identity for the free energy difference between two equilibrium states can be viewed as a special case of a more general procedure based on phase space mappings. Solving a system's equation of motion by approximate means…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wolfgang Lechner , Harald Oberhofer , Christoph Dellago , Phillip L. Geissler

We develop a functional analytic approach to the study of the Kramers and kinetic Fokker-Planck equations which parallels the classical $H^1$ theory of uniformly elliptic equations. In particular, we identify a function space analogous to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 D. Albritton , S. Armstrong , J. -C. Mourrat , M. Novack

We propose a fully discrete finite volume scheme for the standard Fokker-Planck equation. The space discretization relies on the well-known square-root approximation, which falls into the framework of two-point flux approximations. Our time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Clément Cancès , Léonard Monsaingeon , Andrea Natale

In this work, we consider the discretization of some nonlinear Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equations. The scheme we propose preserves the non-negativity of the solution, conserves the mass and, as the discretization parameters tend to zero,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Elisabetta Carlini , Francisco J. Silva

Stochastic differential equations play an important role in various applications when modeling systems that have either random perturbations or chaotic dynamics at faster time scales. The time evolution of the probability distribution of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Yao Li , Caleb Meredith

The Fokker-Planck equations (FPEs) for stochastic systems driven by additive symmetric $\alpha$-stable noises may not adequately describe the time evolution for the probability densities of solution paths in some practical applications,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Yanjie Zhang , Xiao Wang , Qiao Huang , Jinqiao Duan , Tingting Li

The Cauchy problem to the Fokker-Planck-Boltzmann equation under Grad's angular cut-off assumption is investigated. When the initial data is a small perturbation of an equilibrium state, global existence and optimal temporal decay estimates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-14 Linjie Xiong , Tao Wang , Lusheng Wang

This paper deals with the long time behavior of solutions to a "fractional Fokker-Planck" equation of the form $\partial_t f = I[f] + \text{div}(xf)$ where the operator $I$ stands for a fractional Laplacian. We prove an exponential in time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Isabelle Tristani

In distributed and federated learning, heterogeneity across data sources remains a major obstacle to effective model aggregation and convergence. We focus on feature heterogeneity and introduce energy distance as a sensitive measure for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-28 Mengchen Fan , Baocheng Geng , Roman Shterenberg , Joseph A. Casey , Zhong Chen , Keren Li

In this paper, we address the question of estimating the energy decay of integro-differential evolution equations with glassy memory. This class of memory kernel was not analyzed in previous studies. Moreover, a detailed analysis provides…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Paola Loreti , Daniela Sforza

Numerical techniques for discretization of velocity space in continuum kinetic calculations are described. An efficient spectral collocation method is developed for the speed coordinate - the radius in velocity space - employing a novel set…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Matt Landreman , Darin R. Ernst

Controllability and observability energy functions play a fundamental role in model order reduction and are inherently connected to optimal control problems. For linear dynamical systems the energy functions are known to be quadratic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Linus Balicki , Serkan Gugercin