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Grid-free Monte Carlo methods based on the walk on spheres (WoS) algorithm solve fundamental partial differential equations (PDEs) like the Poisson equation without discretizing the problem domain or approximating functions in a finite…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Rohan Sawhney , Bailey Miller , Ioannis Gkioulekas , Keenan Crane

We propose Neural Walk-on-Spheres (NWoS), a novel neural PDE solver for the efficient solution of high-dimensional Poisson equations. Leveraging stochastic representations and Walk-on-Spheres methods, we develop novel losses for neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Hong Chul Nam , Julius Berner , Anima Anandkumar

In this paper, we investigate the Walk on Spheres algorithm (WoS) for motion planning in robotics. WoS is a Monte Carlo method to solve the Dirichlet problem developed in the 50s by Muller and has recently been repopularized by Sawhney and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Rafael I. Cabral Muchacho , Florian T. Pokorny

Walk on Spheres algorithms leverage properties of Brownian Motion to create Monte Carlo estimates of solutions to a class of elliptic partial differential equations. We propose a new caching strategy which leverages the continuity of paths…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Michael Czekanski , Benjamin Faber , Margaret Fairborn , Adelle Wright , David Bindel

We introduce a Monte Carlo method for computing derivatives of the solution to a partial differential equation (PDE) with respect to problem parameters (such as domain geometry or boundary conditions). Derivatives can be evaluated at…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Bailey Miller , Rohan Sawhney , Keenan Crane , Ioannis Gkioulekas

We develop walk-on-sphere for fractional Poisson equations with Dirichilet boundary conditions in high dimensions. The walk-on-sphere method is based on probabilistic represen tation of the fractional Poisson equation. We propose effcient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Caiyu Jiao , Changpin Li , Hexiang Wang , Zhongqiang Zhang

Solving elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) is a fundamental step in various scientific and engineering studies. As a classic stochastic solver, the Walk-on-Spheres (WoS) method is a well-established and efficient algorithm that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Silei Song , Arash Fahim , Michael Mascagni

We introduce the walk-on-boundary (WoB) method for solving boundary value problems to computer graphics. WoB is a grid-free Monte Carlo solver for certain classes of second order partial differential equations. A similar Monte Carlo solver,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ryusuke Sugimoto , Terry Chen , Yiti Jiang , Christopher Batty , Toshiya Hachisuka

In order to approximate the exit time of a one-dimensional diffusion process, we propose an algorithm based on a random walk. Such an algorithm so-called Walk on Moving Spheres was already introduced in the Brownian context. The aim is…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Samuel Herrmann , Nicolas Massin

We present projected walk on spheres (PWoS), a novel pointwise and discretization-free Monte Carlo solver for surface PDEs with Dirichlet boundaries, as a generalization of the walk on spheres method (WoS) [Muller 1956; Sawhney and Crane…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Ryusuke Sugimoto , Nathan King , Toshiya Hachisuka , Christopher Batty

We show that a constant-potential time-independent Schr\"odinger equation with Dirichlet boundary data can be reformulated as a Laplace equation with Dirichlet boundary data. With this reformulation, which we call the Duffin correspondence,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-25 Xuxin Yang , Antti Rasila , Tommi Sottinen

In this paper, we develop a highly parallel and derivative-free fractional neural walk-on-spheres method (FNWoS) for solving high-dimensional fractional Poisson equations on irregular domains. We first propose a simplified fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Ling Guo , Mingxin Qin , Changtao Sheng , Hao Wu , Fanhai Zeng

Partial differential equations (PDEs) with spatially-varying coefficients arise throughout science and engineering, modeling rich heterogeneous material behavior. Yet conventional PDE solvers struggle with the immense complexity found in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Rohan Sawhney , Dario Seyb , Wojciech Jarosz , Keenan Crane

The electrostatic potential in the neighborhood of a biomolecule can be computed thanks to the non-linear divergence-form elliptic Poisson-Boltzmann PDE. Dedicated Monte-Carlo methods have been developed to solve its linearized version (see…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Mireille Bossy , Nicolas Champagnat , Helene Leman , Sylvain Maire , Laurent Violeau , Mariette Yvinec

We consider Monte Carlo methods for simulating solutions to the analogue of the Dirichlet boundary-value problem in which the Laplacian is replaced by the fractional Laplacian and boundary conditions are replaced by conditions on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Andreas E. Kyprianou , Ana Osojnik , Tony Shardlow

A random walk-based method is proposed to efficiently compute the solution of a large class of fractional in time linear systems of differential equations (linear F-ODE systems), along with the derivatives with respect to the system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Andrés Centeno , Juan A. Acebrón , José Monteiro

A random walk problem with particles on discrete double infinite linear grids is discussed. The model is based on the work of Montroll and others. A probability connected with the problem is given in the form of integrals containing…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. B. Sanders , N. M. Temme

We propose a model of random walks on weighted graphs where the weights are interval valued, and connect it to reversible imprecise Markov chains. While the theory of imprecise Markov chains is now well established, this is a first attempt…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Damjan Škulj

In this paper we examine the rate of convergence of one of the standard algorithms for emulating exit probabilities of Brownian motion, the Walk on Spheres (WoS) algorithm. We obtain the complete characterization of the rate of convergence…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-10-21 Ilia Binder , Mark Braverman

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) is a nonlinear elliptic PDE that arises in biomolecular modeling and is a fundamental tool for structural biology. It is used to calculate electrostatic potentials around an ensemble of fixed charges…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-12 Cleophas Kweyu , Lihong Feng , Matthias Stein , Peter Benner
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