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In this paper, we investigate the problem of strong approximation of the solutions of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) when the drift coefficient is given in integral form. We investigate its upper error bounds, in terms of the…

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It is of significant interest in many applications to sample from a high-dimensional target distribution $\pi$ with the density $\pi(\text{d} x) \propto e^{-U(x)} (\text{d} x) $, based on the temporal discretization of the Langevin…

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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

A well-known first-order method for sampling from log-concave probability distributions is the Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm (ULA). This work proposes a new annealing step-size schedule for ULA, which allows to prove new convergence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Paul Rolland , Armin Eftekhari , Ali Kavis , Volkan Cevher

Many stochastic differential equations (SDEs) in the literature have a superlinearly growing nonlinearity in their drift or diffusion coefficient. Unfortunately, moments of the computationally efficient Euler-Maruyama approximation method…

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

We propose a new simple and explicit numerical scheme for time-homogeneous stochastic differential equations. The scheme is based on sampling increments at each time step from a skew-symmetric probability distribution, with the level of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Yuga Iguchi , Samuel Livingstone , Nikolas Nüsken , Giorgos Vasdekis , Rui-Yang Zhang

In this paper, we are concerned with a non-asymptotic analysis of sampling algorithms used in nonconvex optimization. In particular, we obtain non-asymptotic estimates in Wasserstein-1 and Wasserstein-2 distances for a popular class of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Ying Zhang , Ömer Deniz Akyildiz , Theodoros Damoulas , Sotirios Sabanis

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

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

Langevin dynamics are widely used in sampling high-dimensional, non-Gaussian distributions whose densities are known up to a normalizing constant. In particular, there is strong interest in unadjusted Langevin algorithms (ULA), which…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-24 Benjamin J. Zhang , Youssef M. Marzouk , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

This paper focuses on explicit approximations for nonlinear stochastic delay differential equations (SDDEs). Under the weakly local Lipschitz and some suitable conditions, a generic truncated Euler-Maruyama (TEM) scheme for SDDEs is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-20 Guoting Song , Junhao Hu , Shuaibin Gao , Xiaoyue Li

We extend the taming techniques for explicit Euler approximations of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) driven by L\'evy noise with super-linearly growing drift coefficients. Strong convergence results are presented for the case of…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-23 Konstantinos Dareiotis , Chaman Kumar , Sotirios Sabanis

This paper mainly investigates the strong convergence and stability of the truncated Euler-Maruyama (EM) method for stochastic differential delay equations with variable delay whose coefficients can be growing super-linearly. By…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Shounian Deng , Chen Fei , Weiyin Fei , Xuerong Mao

We introduce adaptive, tuning-free step size schedules for gradient-based sampling algorithms obtained as time-discretizations of Wasserstein gradient flows. The result is a suite of tuning-free sampling algorithms, including tuning-free…

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We introduce a class of adaptive timestepping strategies for stochastic differential equations with non-Lipschitz drift coefficients. These strategies work by controlling potential unbounded growth in solutions of a numerical scheme due to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-14 Cónall Kelly , Gabriel J. Lord

We consider the explicit numerical approximations of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) driven by Brownian process and Poisson jump. It is well known that under non-global Lipschitz condition, Euler Explicit method fails to converge…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Antoine Tambue , Jean Daniel Mukam

We survey recent developments in the field of complexity of pathwise approximation in $p$-th mean of the solution of a stochastic differential equation at the final time based on finitely many evaluations of the driving Brownian motion.…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-04 T. Müller-Gronbach , L. Yaroslavtseva

This paper proposes an adaptive numerical method for stochastic delay differential equations (SDDEs) with a non-global Lipschitz drift term and a non-constant delay, building upon the work of Wei Fang and others. The method adapts the step…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Dongyang Liu , Minghui Song , Yuhang Zhang

This paper proposes an adaptive timestep construction for an Euler-Maruyama approximation of the ergodic SDEs with a drift which is not globally Lipschitz over an infinite time interval. If the timestep is bounded appropriately, we show not…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Wei Fang , Michael B. Giles

Simulating the kinetic Langevin dynamics is a popular approach for sampling from distributions, where only their unnormalized densities are available. Various discretizations of the kinetic Langevin dynamics have been considered, where the…

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