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Designing sampling algorithms for multimodal targets that remain stable under refinement of the finite-dimensional approximation of an underlying function-space problem is a central challenge. Annealed Langevin dynamics (ALD) is a natural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Lorenzo Baldassari , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna , Maarten V. de Hoop

Many practical samplers rely on time-dependent drifts -- often induced by annealing or tempering schedules -- to improve exploration and stability. This motivates a unified non-asymptotic analysis of the corresponding Langevin diffusions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Andreas Habring , Martin Zach

We present an improved analysis of the Euler-Maruyama discretization of the Langevin diffusion. Our analysis does not require global contractivity, and yields polynomial dependence on the time horizon. Compared to existing approaches, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Wenlong Mou , Nicolas Flammarion , Martin J. Wainwright , Peter L. Bartlett

Underdamped Langevin dynamics (ULD) is a widely-used sampler for Gibbs distributions $\pi\propto e^{-V}$, and is often empirically effective in high dimensions. However, existing non-asymptotic convergence guarantees for discretized ULD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Shiyuan Zhang , Qiwei Di , Xuheng Li , Quanquan Gu

Acceleration is a celebrated cornerstone of convex optimization, enabling gradient-based algorithms to converge sublinearly in the condition number. A major open question is whether an analogous acceleration phenomenon is possible for…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Jason M. Altschuler , Sinho Chewi , Matthew S. Zhang

In this paper we present a novel approach for the prescription of high order boundary conditions when approximating the solution of the Euler equations for compressible gas dynamics on curved moving domains. When dealing with curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Walter Boscheri , Mirco Ciallella

Underdamped Langevin Monte Carlo (ULMC) is an algorithm used to sample from unnormalized densities by leveraging the momentum of a particle moving in a potential well. We provide a novel analysis of ULMC, motivated by two central questions:…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Matthew Zhang , Sinho Chewi , Mufan Bill Li , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Murat A. Erdogdu

Discretization of continuous-time diffusion processes is a widely recognized method for sampling. However, it seems to be a considerable restriction when the potentials are often required to be smooth (gradient Lipschitz). This paper…

Computation · Statistics 2022-02-23 Dao Nguyen

Sampling from a target distribution is a fundamental problem. Traditional Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, such as the unadjusted Langevin algorithm (ULA), derived from the overdamped Langevin dynamics, have been extensively…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Xinzhe Zuo , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

Understanding the dimension dependency of computational complexity in high-dimensional sampling problem is a fundamental problem, both from a practical and theoretical perspective. Compared with samplers with unbiased stationary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xunpeng Huang , Hanze Dong , Difan Zou , Tong Zhang

We study the convergence in total variation and $V$-norm of discretization schemes of the underdamped Langevin dynamics. Such algorithms are very popular and commonly used in molecular dynamics and computational statistics to…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Alain Durmus , Aurélien Enfroy , Éric Moulines , Gabriel Stoltz

In this paper, we study the numerical discretization of stochastic differential equations with locally Lipschitz, super-linearly growing drift, and the resulting implications for sampling from non-log-concave distributions satisfying a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Iosif Lytras , Angelos Ntousis

In molecular dynamics, penalized overdamped Langevin dynamics are used to model the motion of a set of particles that follow constraints up to a parameter $\varepsilon$. The most used schemes for simulating these dynamics are the Euler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Adrien Laurent

Recently, it was discovered that the entropy-conserving/dissipative high-order split-form discontinuous Galerkin discretizations have robustness issues when trying to solve the simple density wave propagation example for the compressible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Hendrik Ranocha , Gregor J Gassner

This paper focuses on studying the convergence rate of the density function of the Euler--Maruyama (EM) method, when applied to the overdamped generalized Langevin equation with fractional noise which serves as an important model in many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Xinjie Dai , Diancong Jin

In this paper, we study the stability of various difference approximations of the Euler-Korteweg equations. This system of evolution PDEs is a classical isentropic Euler system perturbed by a dispersive (third order) term. The Euler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Pascal Noble , Jean-Paul Vila

We consider spectral discretizations of hyperbolic problems on unbounded domains using Laguerre basis functions. Taking as model problem the scalar advection equation, we perform a comprehensive stability analysis that includes strong…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-30 T. Benacchio , L. Bonaventura

Although generative diffusion models (GDMs) are widely used in practice, their theoretical foundations remain limited, especially concerning the impact of different discretization schemes applied to the underlying stochastic differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Emanuel Pfarr , Radu Timofte , Frank Werner

Typical fully conservative discretizations of the Euler compressible single or multi-component fluid equations governed by a real-fluid equation of state exhibit spurious pressure oscillations due to the nonlinearity of the thermodynamic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Christopher DeGrendele , Nguyen Ly , Francois Cadieux , Michael Barad , Dongwook Lee , Jared Duensing

Wasserstein gradient flows have become a central tool for optimization problems over probability measures. A natural numerical approach is forward-Euler time discretization. We show, however, that even in the simple case where the energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Yewei Xu , Qin Li
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