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Stochastic reaction networks governed by Chemical Langevin Equations (CLE) exhibit pronounced multiscale dynamics spanning fast molecular reactions, intermediate transport, and slow cellular regulation, posing significant challenges for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Yuming Zeng , Wei Xie , Keqi Wang

Policy gradient methods are a powerful family of reinforcement learning algorithms for continuous control that optimize a policy directly. However, standard first-order methods often converge slowly. Second-order methods can accelerate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Amirreza Valaei , Arash Bahari Kordabad , Sadegh Soudjani

Quantum Hamiltonian identification is important for characterizing the dynamics of quantum systems, calibrating quantum devices and achieving precise quantum control. In this paper, an effective two-step optimization (TSO) quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Yuanlong Wang , Daoyi Dong , Bo Qi , Jun Zhang , Ian R. Petersen , Hidehiro Yonezawa

We present a detailed analysis and implementation of a splitting strategy to identify simultaneously the local-volatility surface and the jump-size distribution from quoted European prices. The underlying model consists of a jump-diffusion…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-11-07 Vinicius Albani , Jorge Zubelli

In this work, we study the optimal control of stochastic Burgers equation perturbed by Gaussian and Levy type noises with distributed control process acting on the state equation. We use the dynamic programming approach for the second order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-18 Manil T. Mohan , K. Sakthivel , Sivaguru S. Sritharan

We propose a short-memory operator splitting scheme for solving the constant-Q wave equation, where the fractional stress-strain relation contains multiple Caputo fractional derivatives with order much smaller than 1. The key is to exploit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Yunfeng Xiong , Xu Guo

In this article, two methods for solving mean-field type optimal control problems are proposed and investigated. The two methods are iterative methods: at each iteration, a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is solved, for a terminal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Laurent Pfeiffer

In this paper, we are concerned with the classical solvability of a class of second-order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations (HJB equations) arising from stochastic optimal control problems with linear dynamics and uniformly convex cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Jinghua Li , Zhiyong Yu

We study a new two-time-scale stochastic gradient method for solving optimization problems, where the gradients are computed with the aid of an auxiliary variable under samples generated by time-varying MDPs controlled by the underlying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Sihan Zeng , Thinh T. Doan , Justin Romberg

This paper addresses the model-free nonlinear optimal problem with generalized cost functional, and a data-based reinforcement learning technique is developed. It is known that the nonlinear optimal control problem relies on the solution of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Biao Luo , Huai-Ning Wu , Tingwen Huang , Derong Liu

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) Reachability is widely used to compute value functions for states satisfying specific control objectives. However, it becomes intractable for high-dimensional problems due to the curse of dimensionality. Dimensionality…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Chong He , Mugilan Mariappan , Keval Vora , Mo Chen

We obtain better algorithms for computing more balanced orientations and degree splits in LOCAL. Important to our result is a connection to the hypergraph sinkless orientation problem [BMNSU, SODA'25] We design an algorithm of complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yannic Maus , Alexandre Nolin , Florian Schager

Supported by the recent contributions in multiple branches, the first-order splitting algorithms became central for structured nonsmooth optimization. In the large-scale or noisy contexts, when only stochastic information on the smooth part…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Andrei Patrascu , Paul Irofti

We prove explicit estimates for the error in random homogenization of degenerate, second-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations, assuming the coefficients satisfy a finite range of dependence. In particular, we obtain an algebraic rate of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-31 Scott N. Armstrong , Pierre Cardaliaguet

Trotter and linear-combination-of-unitary (LCU) are two popular Hamiltonian simulation methods. We propose Hamiltonian simulation algorithms using LCU to compensate Trotter error, which enjoy both of their advantages. By adding few gates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Pei Zeng , Jinzhao Sun , Liang Jiang , Qi Zhao

We propose and analyze the convergence of a novel stochastic algorithm for solving monotone inclusions that are the sum of a maximal monotone operator and a monotone, Lipschitzian operator. The propose algorithm requires only unbiased…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Nguyen Van Dung , Bang Cong Vu

This overview is devoted to splitting methods, a class of numerical integrators intended for differential equations that can be subdivided into different problems easier to solve than the original system. Closely connected with this class…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Sergio Blanes , Fernando Casas , Ander Murua

We address two major challenges in scientific machine learning (SciML): interpretability and computational efficiency. We increase the interpretability of certain learning processes by establishing a new theoretical connection between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Paula Chen , Tingwei Meng , Zongren Zou , Jérôme Darbon , George Em Karniadakis

This paper presents enhancement strategies for the Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting method based on gradient iterations. The spectral properties are exploited for the parameter estimation, often resulting in a better convergence. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Qinmeng Zou , Frederic Magoules

In light of the recently published complete set of statistically correct Gronbech-Jensen (GJ) methods for discrete-time thermodynamics, we revise a differential operator splitting method for the Langevin equation in order to comply with the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Joshua Finkelstein , Chungho Cheng , Giacomo Fiorin , Benjamin Seibold , Niels Grønbech-Jensen