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Motivated by applications in trajectory inference and particle tracking, we introduce Smooth Schr\"odinger Bridges. Our proposal generalizes prior work by allowing the reference process in the Schr\"odinger Bridge problem to be a smooth…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Wanli Hong , Yuliang Shi , Jonathan Niles-Weed

Stochastic mechanics---the study of classical stochastic systems governed by things like master equations and Fokker-Planck equations---exhibits striking mathematical parallels to quantum mechanics. In this article, we make those parallels…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-01 John J. Vastola , William R. Holmes

The precise description of quantum nuclear fluctuations in atomistic modelling is possible by employing path integral techniques, which involve a considerable computational overhead due to the need of simulating multiple replicas of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Venkat Kapil , Jörg Behler , Michele Ceriotti

We consider flows of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) driven by path differentiable vector fields. Path differentiable functions constitute a proper subclass of Lipschitz functions which admit conservative gradients, a notion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Swann Marx , Edouard Pauwels

We study the stochastic transport equation with globally $\beta$-H\"older continuous and bounded vector field driven by a non-degenerate pure-jump L\'evy noise of $\alpha$-stable type. Whereas the deterministic transport equation may lack…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Zdzisław Brzeźniak , Enrico Priola , Jianliang Zhai , Jiahui Zhu

We give a new proof of the trace formula for regular graphs. Our approach is inspired by path integral approach in quantum mechanics, and calculations are mostly combinatorial.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavel Mnev

We present a general mathematical framework for trajectory stratification for simulating rare events. Trajectory stratification involves decomposing trajectories of the underlying process into fragments limited to restricted regions of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-15 Aaron R. Dinner , Jonathan C. Mattingly , Jeremy O. B. Tempkin , Brian Van Koten , Jonathan Weare

A stochastic flow representation is considered with the Eulerian velocity decomposed between a smooth large scale component and a rough small-scale turbulent component. The latter is specified as a random field uncorrelated in time.…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Valentin Resseguier , Etienne Mémin , Bertrand Chapron

A new method is proposed for integrating the equations of motion of an elastic filament. In the standard finite-difference and finite-element formulations the continuum equations of motion are discretized in space and time, but it is then…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anthony JC Ladd , Gaurav Misra

We present a numerical method for the approximation of solutions for the class of stochastic differential equations driven by Brownian motions which induce stochastic variation in fixed directions. This class of equations arises naturally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-15 David F. Anderson , Jonathan C. Mattingly

We generalize Lyons' rough paths theory in order to give a pathwise meaning to some nonlinear infinite-dimensional evolution equation associated to an analytic semigroup and driven by an irregular noise. As an illustration, we discuss a…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-01-26 Massimiliano Gubinelli , Samy Tindel

We construct path integral representations for the evolution operator of q-oscillators with root of unity values of q-parameter using Bargmann-Fock representations with commuting and non-commuting variables, the differential calculi being…

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-28 M. Chaichian , A. P. Demichev

Stochastic linear modelling proposed in Tissot, M\'emin & Cavalieri (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 912, 2021, A51) is based on classical conservation laws subject to a stochastic transport. Once linearised around the mean flow and expressed in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-27 Gilles Tissot , André Cavalieri , Etienne Mémin

Smoothing is a specialized form of Bayesian inference for state-space models that characterizes the posterior distribution of a collection of states given an associated sequence of observations. Ramgraber et al. (2023) proposes a general…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-23 Maximilian Ramgraber , Ricardo Baptista , Dennis McLaughlin , Youssef Marzouk

Gutzwiller's trace formula and Bogomolny's formula are applied to a non--specific, non--scalable Hamiltonian system, a two--dimensional anharmonic oscillator. These semiclassical theories reproduce well the exact quantal results over a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Daniel Provost

In this article we introduce a portfolio optimisation framework, in which the use of rough path signatures (Lyons, 1998) provides a novel method of incorporating path-dependencies in the joint signal-asset dynamics, naturally extending…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2023-08-31 Owen Futter , Blanka Horvath , Magnus Wiese

Multiplicative noise makes stochastic dynamics depend on how the white-noise limit is interpreted. In multidimensional systems with matrix-valued noise amplitudes $\sigma(x)$, this dependence includes a local Jacobian contribution that is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-14 Surachate Limkumnerd

A new spectral conjugate subgradient method is presented to solve nonsmooth unconstrained optimization problems. The method combines the spectral conjugate gradient method for smooth problems with the spectral subgradient method for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Milagros Loreto , Thomas Humphries , Chella Raghavan , Kenneth Wu , Sam Kwak

This work establishes the existence and regularity of random pullback attractors for parabolic partial differential equations with rough nonlinear multiplicative noise under natural assumptions on the coefficients. To this aim, we combine…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Alexandra Neamtu , Tim Seitz

We give a development of the ODE method for the analysis of recursive algorithms described by a stochastic recursion. With variability modelled via an underlying Markov process, and under general assumptions, the following results are…

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