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We propose a mean field game (MFG) framework to model the evolution of renewable energy production in competitive electricity markets. Producers interact through the spot price while optimising their profits under production, installation,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Luciano Campi , Zhuoshu Wu

Generally, the local interactions in a many-body quantum spin system on a lattice do not commute with each other. Consequently, the Hamiltonian of a local region will generally not commute with that of the entire system, and so the two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 Itai Arad , Tomotaka Kuwahara , Zeph Landau

Connecting optimal transport and variational inference, we present a principled and systematic framework for sampling and generative modelling centred around divergences on path space. Our work culminates in the development of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-08 Francisco Vargas , Shreyas Padhy , Denis Blessing , Nikolas Nüsken

This is a short review of Monte Carlo methods for approximating filter distributions in state space models. The basic algorithm and different strategies to reduce imbalance of the weights are discussed. Finally, methods for more difficult…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Hans R. Künsch

Transition path theory (TPT) for diffusion processes is a framework for analysing the transitions of multiscale ergodic diffusion processes between disjoint metastable subsets of state space. Most methods for applying TPT involve the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-31 Nada Cvetković , Tim Conrad , Han Cheng Lie

In this communication, the derivation of the Boltzmann-Gibbs and the Maxwellian distributions is presented from a geometrical point of view under the hypothesis of equiprobability. It is shown that both distributions can be obtained by…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-01-20 Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz , Jaime Sanudo , Xavier Calbet

The family of Boltzmann distributions is used in statistical mechanics to describe the distribution of states in systems with a given temperature. We give a novel characterization of this family as the unique one satisfying independence for…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Fedor Sandomirskiy , Omer Tamuz

We construct a new sufficient conditions for boundedness or continuity of arbitrary random fields relying on the so-called partition scheme, alike in the classical majorizing measure method. We deduce also the used in the practice…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Eugene Ostrovsky , Leonid Sirota

This paper brings explicit considerations of distributed computing architectures and data structures into the rigorous design of Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods. A theoretical result established recently by the authors shows that…

Computation · Statistics 2014-06-24 Anthony Lee , Nick Whiteley

Transmitters of a multiple access channel are assumed to freely choose their power control strategy in order to be energy-efficient. We show that in a stochastic game framework, we can develop energy-efficient distributed control strategies…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-25 François Mériaux , Maël Le Treust , Samson Lasaulce , Michel Kieffer

Distributed optimization for resource allocation problems is investigated and a sub-optimal continuous-time algorithm is proposed. Our algorithm has lower order dynamics than others to reduce burdens of computation and communication, and is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Shu Liang , Xianlin Zeng , Guanpu Chen , Yiguang Hong

We introduce a powerful and flexible MCMC algorithm for stochastic simulation. The method builds on a pseudo-marginal method originally introduced in [Genetics 164 (2003) 1139--1160], showing how algorithms which are approximations to an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-04-01 Christophe Andrieu , Gareth O. Roberts

We present a new algorithm to optimize distributions defined implicitly by parameterized stochastic diffusions. Doing so allows us to modify the outcome distribution of sampling processes by optimizing over their parameters. We introduce a…

We tackle a nonlinear optimal control problem for a stochastic differential equation in Euclidean space and its state-linear counterpart for the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation in the space of probabilities. Our approach is founded on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Roman Chertovskih , Nikolay Pogodaev , Maxim Staritsyn , A. Pedro Aguiar

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo is a widely used algorithm for sampling from posterior distributions of complex Bayesian models. It can efficiently explore high-dimensional parameter spaces guided by simulated Hamiltonian flows. However, the…

Computation · Statistics 2019-04-29 Lingge Li , Andrew Holbrook , Babak Shahbaba , Pierre Baldi

Sampling the parameter space of artificial neural networks according to a Boltzmann distribution provides insight into the geometry of low-loss solutions and offers an alternative to conventional loss minimization for training. However,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-17 Alessandro Zambon , Francesca Caruso , Riccardo Zecchina , Guido Tiana

We introduce a numerical algorithm to stochastically sample the dual fermion perturbation series around the dynamical mean field theory, generating all topologies of two-particle interaction vertices. We show results in the weak and strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-07 Sergei Iskakov , Andrey E. Antipov , Emanuel Gull

A new computational method for finite-temperature properties of strongly correlated electrons is proposed by extending the variational Monte Carlo method originally developed for the ground state. The method is based on the path integral in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-10 Kensaku Takai , Kota Ido , Takahiro Misawa , Youhei Yamaji , Masatoshi Imada

For a number of important mean field games models, the Hamiltonian is non-local and not additively separable. This means that the distribution of agents appears in the Hamiltonian only in an integral over the whole spatial domain. For mean…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-15 David M. Ambrose , Milton C. Lopes Filho , Anna L. Mazzucato , Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes

This paper considers estimation and inference in semiparametric econometric models. Standard procedures estimate the model based on an independence restriction that induces a minimum distance between a joint cumulative distribution function…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Zhengyuan Gao , Antonio Galvao