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We propose in this work a Monte Carlo method for three dimensional scalar radiative transfer equations with non-integrable, space-dependent scattering kernels. Such kernels typically account for long-range statistical features, and arise…

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High-dimensional integration with respect to complex target measures remains a fundamental challenge in computational science. While Flow Matching (FM) offers a powerful paradigm for constructing continuous-time transport maps, its…

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This article provides a high-level overview of some recent works on the application of quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods to PDEs with random coefficients. It is based on an in-depth survey of a similar title by the same authors, with an…

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Forward and adjoint Monte Carlo (MC) models of radiance are proposed for use in model-based quantitative photoacoustic tomography. A 2D radiance MC model using a harmonic angular basis is introduced and validated against analytic solutions…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Roman Hochuli , Samuel Powell , Simon Arridge , Ben Cox

We present a new method for the solution of PDEs on manifolds $\mathbb{M} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of co-dimension one using stable scale-free radial basis function (RBF) interpolation. Our method involves augmenting polyharmonic spline (PHS)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Varun Shankar , Akil Narayan , Robert M. Kirby

A method for the multifidelity Monte Carlo (MFMC) estimation of statistical quantities is proposed which is applicable to computational budgets of any size. Based on a sequence of optimization problems each with a globally minimizing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Anthony Gruber , Max Gunzburger , Lili Ju , Zhu Wang

As the size of engineered systems grows, problems in reliability theory can become computationally challenging, often due to the combinatorial growth in the cut sets. In this paper we demonstrate how Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) - a…

Computation · Statistics 2017-03-14 Louis J. M. Aslett , Tigran Nagapetyan , Sebastian J. Vollmer

Radial Basis Function (RBF), or Gaussian, kernels are among the most widely used parametric kernels in machine learning, particularly in methods such as Support Vector Machines (SVM) and kernel-based subspace approaches. The kernel…

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The multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method has proven to be an effective variance-reduction statistical method for Uncertainty quantification in PDE models. It combines approximations at different levels of accuracy using a hierarchy of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-28 Santiago Badia , Jerrad Hampton , Javier Principe

Recently, collocation based radial basis function (RBF) partition of unity methods (PUM) for solving partial differential equations have been formulated and investigated numerically and theoretically. When combined with stable evaluation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Elisabeth Larsson , Victor Shcherbakov , Alfa Heryudono

Fractional Laplace equations are becoming important tools for mathematical modeling and prediction. Recent years have shown much progress in developing accurate and robust algorithms to numerically solve such problems, yet most solvers for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Harbir Antil , Yanlai Chen , Akil Narayan

Quantum Monte Carlo is one of the most promising approaches for dealing with large-scale quantum many-body systems. It has played an extremely important role in understanding strongly correlated physics. However, two fundamental problems,…

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In this paper we describe a parallel implicit method based on radial basis functions (RBF) for surface reconstruction. The applicability of RBF methods is hindered by its computational demand, that requires the solution of linear systems of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-05-23 Salvatore Cuomo , Ardelio Gallettiy , Giulio Giuntay , Alfredo Staracey

We study the application of a tailored quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) method to a class of optimal control problems subject to parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) constraints under uncertainty: the state in our setting is the solution of…

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The variational quantum Monte Carlo (VQMC) method received significant attention in the recent past because of its ability to overcome the curse of dimensionality inherent in many-body quantum systems. Close parallels exist between VQMC and…

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The direct method used for calculating smooth radial basis function (RBF) interpolants in the flat limit becomes numerically unstable. The RBF-QR algorithm bypasses this ill-conditioning using a clever change of basis technique. We extend…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Kathryn P. Drake , Grady B. Wright

This paper focuses on signal processing tasks in which the signal is transformed from the signal space to a higher dimensional coefficient space (also called phase space) using a continuous frame, processed in the coefficient space, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Ron Levie , Haim Avron

The Lane-Emden type equations are employed in the modelling of several phenomena in the areas of mathematical physics and astrophysics . In this paper a new numerical method is applied to investigate some well-known classes of Lane-Emden…

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We propose two localized Radial Basis Function (RBF) methods, the Radial Basis Function Partition of Unity method (RBF-PUM) and the Radial Basis Function generated Finite Differences method (RBF-FD), for solving financial derivative pricing…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-08-20 Slobodan Milovanović , Victor Shcherbakov

Kernel-based classification methods, particularly the support vector machine (SVM), are among the most common algorithms for hyperspectral data classification. The Radial Basis function (RBF) kernel has earned great popularity in…

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