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Early warning indicators often suffer from the shortness and coarse-graining of real-world time series. Furthermore, the typically strong and correlated noise contributions in real applications are severe drawbacks for statistical measures.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-03-03 Martin Heßler , Oliver Kamps

Langevin integrators based on operator splitting are widely used in molecular dynamics. This work examines Langevin splitting schemes from the perspective of their internal trajectories and observation points, complementing existing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-03 Bettina G. Keller

We introduce a continuous policy-value iteration algorithm where the approximations of the value function of a stochastic control problem and the optimal control are simultaneously updated through Langevin-type dynamics. This framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Qi Feng , Gu Wang

The complex Langevin method is extended to full QCD at non-zero chemical potential. The use of gauge cooling stabilizes the simulations at small enough lattice spacings. At large fermion mass the results are compared to the HQCD approach,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-03-19 Denes Sexty

This paper establishes problem-specific sample complexity lower bounds for linear system identification problems. The sample complexity is defined in the PAC framework: it corresponds to the time it takes to identify the system parameters…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Yassir Jedra , Alexandre Proutiere

Symmetries are ubiquitous across all kinds of objects, whether in nature or in man-made creations. While these symmetries may seem intuitive to the human eye, detecting them with a machine is nontrivial due to the vast search space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Jihyeon Je , Jiayi Liu , Guandao Yang , Boyang Deng , Shengqu Cai , Gordon Wetzstein , Or Litany , Leonidas Guibas

The problem of sampling according to the probability distribution minimizing a given free energy, using interacting particles unadjusted kinetic Langevin Monte Carlo, is addressed. In this setting, three sources of error arise, related to…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Pierre Monmarché , Katharina Schuh

We propose a new method called the Metropolis-adjusted Mirror Langevin algorithm for approximate sampling from distributions whose support is a compact and convex set. This algorithm adds an accept-reject filter to the Markov chain induced…

Computation · Statistics 2024-06-24 Vishwak Srinivasan , Andre Wibisono , Ashia Wilson

In this paper, we study a regularised relaxed optimal control problem and, in particular, we are concerned with the case where the control variable is of large dimension. We introduce a system of mean-field Langevin equations, the invariant…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Kaitong Hu , Anna Kazeykina , Zhenjie Ren

Model instability and poor prediction of long-term behavior are common problems when modeling dynamical systems using nonlinear "black-box" techniques. Direct optimization of the long-term predictions, often called simulation error…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Mark M. Tobenkin , Ian R. Manchester , Alexandre Megretski

Many complex systems are characterized by intriguing spatio-temporal structures. Their mathematical description relies on the analysis of appropriate correlation functions. Functional integral techniques provide a unifying formalism that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-12 Uwe C. Tauber

The challenge of mastering computational tasks of enormous size tends to frequently override questioning the quality of the numerical outcome in terms of accuracy. By this we do not mean the accuracy within the discrete setting, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Markus Bachmayr , Wolfgang Dahmen

We discuss the design of an invariant measure-preserving transformed dynamics for the numerical treatment of Langevin dynamics based on rescaling of time, with the goal of sampling from an invariant measure. Given an appropriate monitor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Alix Leroy , Benedict Leimkuhler , Jonas Latz , Desmond J. Higham

Three variants of the statistical complexity function, which is used as a criterion in the problem of detection of a useful signal in the signal-noise mixture, are considered. The probability distributions maximizing the considered variants…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-30 Leonid Berlin , Andrey Galyaev , Pavel Lysenko

The Langevin algorithms are frequently used to sample the posterior distributions in Bayesian inference. In many practical problems, however, the posterior distributions often consist of non-differentiable components, posing challenges for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Ziruo Cai , Jinglai Li , Xiaoqun Zhang

There has been considerable efforts to understand the underlying complex dynamics in physiological time series. Methods originated from statistical physics revealed a non-Gaussian statistics and long range correlations in those signals.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-03-02 C. E. C. Galhardo , B. C. Coutinho , T. J. P. Penna , M. A. de Menezes , P. P. S. Soares

There has been a surge of works bridging MCMC sampling and optimization, with a specific focus on translating non-asymptotic convergence guarantees for optimization problems into the analysis of Langevin algorithms in MCMC sampling. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yoav Freund , Yi-An Ma , Tong Zhang

Lattice QCD at finite chemical potential is difficult due to the sign problem. We use stochastic quantization and complex Langevin dynamics to study this issue. First results for QCD in the hopping expansion are encouraging. U(1) and SU(3)…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-01-21 Gert Aarts , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

We present efficient finite difference estimators for goal-oriented sensitivity indices with applications to the generalized Langevin equation (GLE). In particular, we apply these estimators to analyze an extended variable formulation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Eric Joseph Hall , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet

The 21st century has seen an enormous growth in the development and use of approximate Bayesian methods. Such methods produce computational solutions to certain intractable statistical problems that challenge exact methods like Markov chain…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-28 Gael M. Martin , David T. Frazier , Christian P. Robert