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Predicting how distributions over discrete variables vary over time is a common task in time series forecasting. But whereas most approaches focus on merely predicting the distribution at subsequent time steps, a crucial piece of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mukul Bhutani , J. Zico Kolter

Stochastic differential equations provide a powerful tool for modelling dynamic phenomena affected by random noise. In case of repeated observations of time series for several experimental units, it is often the case that some of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-06 Fernando Baltazar-Larios , Mogens Bladt , Michael Sørensen

The classical Density Functional Theory (DFT) is introduced as an application of entropic inference for inhomogeneous fluids at thermal equilibrium. It is shown that entropic inference reproduces the variational principle of DFT when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-14 Ahmad Yousefi , Ariel Caticha

Stochastic differential equations of Langevin-diffusion form have received significant attention, thanks to their foundational role in both Bayesian sampling algorithms and optimization in machine learning. In the latter, they serve as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Fabio V. Difonzo , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Jakub Marecek

Multiphase flow in parallel channels is often an efficient approach to manage heat and energy distribution in engineering systems. However, two-phase flow with heating in parallel channels is prone to maldistribution, resulting in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-26 Toochukwu Aka , Shankar Narayan

The dissipation phenomena of relative entropy from an It\^o--Langevin dynamical system is a classic topic from stochastic analysis. Relying on the time-reversal of diffusions, a novel trajectorial approach investigates the pathwise behavior…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Jiaming Chen

Sample-based trajectory optimisers are a promising tool for the control of robotics with non-differentiable dynamics and cost functions. Contemporary approaches derive from a restricted subclass of stochastic optimal control where the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Tom Lefebvre , Guillaume Crevecoeur

For a variant of the algorithm in [Pit19] (arXiv:1903.10816) to compute the approximate density or distribution function of a linear mixture of independent random variables known by a finite sample, it is presented a proof of the functional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Thomas Pitschel

In this paper, we propose stochastic structure-preserving schemes to compute the effective diffusivity for particles moving in random flows. We first introduce the motion of particles using the Lagrangian formulation, which is modeled by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Junlong Lyu , Zhongjian Wang , Jack Xin , Zhiwen Zhang

We investigate, by numerical simulation, the path probability of non dissipative mechanical systems undergoing stochastic motion. The aim is to search for the relationship between this probability and the usual mechanical action. The model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 T. L. Lin , R. Wang , W. P. Bi , A. El Kaabouchi , C. Pujos , F. Calvayrac , Q. A. Wang

A novel principle is presented which allows for the proof of bounded weak solutions to a class of physically relevant, strongly coupled parabolic systems exhibiting a formal gradient-flow structure. The main feature of these systems is that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Ansgar Jüngel

Non-equilibrium fluctuations of various stochastic variables, such as work and entropy production, have been widely discussed recently in the context of large deviations, cumulants and fluctuation relations. Typically, one looks at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 Keiji Saito , Abhishek Dhar

We analyze a stochastic particle system of 5 neighbors. Considering eigenvalue problem of transition matrix, we propose a conjecture that asymptotic distribution of the system is determined by the number of specific local patterns in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Kazushige Endo

A stochastic action principle for stochastic dynamics is revisited. We present first numerical diffusion experiments showing that the diffusion path probability depend exponentially on average Lagrangian action. This result is then used to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-25 Q. A. Wang , F. Tsobnang , S. Bangoup , F. Dzangue , A. Jeatsa , A. Le Méhauté

We have presented a new axiomatic derivation of Shannon Entropy for a discrete probability distribution on the basis of the postulates of additivity and concavity of the entropy function.We have then modified shannon entropy to take account…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. G. Chakrabarti , Indranil Chakrabarty

In this work, we propose a scheme that provides an analytical estimate for the time-dependent degree distribution of some networks. This scheme maps the problem into a random walk in degree space, and then we choose the paths that are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-25 H. L. Casa Grande , M. Cotacallapa , M. O. Hase

Systems biology relies on mathematical models that often involve complex and intractable likelihood functions, posing challenges for efficient inference and model selection. Generative models, such as normalizing flows, have shown…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-06 Vincent D. Zaballa , Elliot E. Hui

Extracting governing stochastic differential equation models from elusive data is crucial to understand and forecast dynamics for complex systems. We devise a method to extract the drift term and estimate the diffusion coefficient of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Jian Ren , Jinqiao Duan

Consider a manifold $M$ endowed locally with a pair of complementary distributions $\Delta^H \oplus \Delta^V=TM$ and let $\text{Diff}(\Delta^H, M)$ and $\text{Diff}(\Delta^V, M)$ be the corresponding Lie subgroups generated by vector fields…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Alison M. Melo , Leandro Morgado , Paulo R. Ruffino

We give a variational formulation of classical statistical mechanics where the one-body density and the local entropy distribution constitute the trial fields. Using Levy's constrained search method it is shown that the grand potential is a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 Matthias Schmidt
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