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In the present article, we study the diffusion equations with fractional time derivatives. The aim of this paper is to investigate the best possible regularity for the initial value/boundary value problems with non-homogeneous Dirichlet…

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Adaptive optimal control of nonlinear dynamic systems with deterministic and known dynamics under a known undiscounted infinite-horizon cost function is investigated. Policy iteration scheme initiated using a stabilizing initial control is…

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We provide some criteria on the stability of regime-switching diffusion processes. Both the state-independent and state-dependent regime-switching diffusion processes with switching in a finite state space and an infinite countable state…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Jinghai Shao , Fubao Xi

This paper considers the problem of designing time-dependent, real-time control policies for controllable nonlinear diffusion processes, with the goal of obtaining maximally-informative observations about parameters of interest. More…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-10-16 Giles Hooker , Kevin K. Lin , Bruce Rogers

We study a nonlocal diffusion operator in a bounded smooth domain prescribing the flux through the boundary. This problem may be seen as a generalization of the usual Neumann problem for the heat equation. First, we prove existence,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. Cortazar , M. Elgueta , J. D. Rossi , N. Wolanski

In this note, we present some complementary results on the infinite horizon optimal control for linear time-delay systems. We formally establish some properties of the matrices arising in the Bellman functional, and we prove that no…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-29 J. M. Ortega , O. J. Santos , S. Mondié

The paper presents new simple sharp bounds for transition density functions for time-homogeneous diffusions processes. The bounds are obtained under mild conditions on the drift and diffusion coefficients, extending and substantially…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-08 Andrew N. Downes

In this paper we study a nonlocal diffusion problem on a manifold. These kind of equations can model diffusions when there are long range effects and have been widely studied in Euclidean space. We first prove existence and uniqueness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-02 Catherine Bandle , Maria del Mar Gonzalez , Marco A. Fontelos , Noemi Wolanski

We propose a class of nonlocal diffusion systems on time-varying domains, and fully characterize their asymptotic dynamics in the asymptotically fixed, time-periodic and unbounded cases. The kernel is not necessarily symmetric or compactly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Xiandong Lin , Hailong Ye , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

The focus of this article is studying an optimal control problem for branching diffusion processes. Initially, we introduce the problem in its strong formulation and expand it to include linearly growing drifts. Then, we present a relaxed…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Antonio Ocello

We consider a $4\times4$ nonlinear reaction-diffusion system posed on a smooth domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^N$ ($N \geq 1$) with controls localized in some arbitrary nonempty open subset $\omega$ of the domain $\Omega$. This system is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Kévin Le Balc'h

Diffusion models have seen tremendous success as generative architectures. Recently, they have been shown to be effective at modelling policies for offline reinforcement learning and imitation learning. We explore using diffusion as a model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Liam Schramm , Abdeslam Boularias

This paper provides a construction of a Fleming--Viot measure valued diffusion process, for which the transition function is known, by extending recent ideas of the Gibbs sampler based Markov processes. In particular, we concentrate on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stephen G. Walker , Spyridon J. Hatjispyros , Theodoros Nicoleris

In this paper, we are concerned with the regional boundary controllability of the Riemann-Liouville time fractional diffusion systems of order $\alpha\in (0,1]$. The characterizations of strategic actuators are established when the systems…

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Many practical samplers rely on time-dependent drifts -- often induced by annealing or tempering schedules -- to improve exploration and stability. This motivates a unified non-asymptotic analysis of the corresponding Langevin diffusions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Andreas Habring , Martin Zach

In this paper a concentration inequality is proved for the deviation in the ergodic theorem in the case of discrete time observations of diffusion processes. The proof is based on the geometric ergodicity property for diffusion processes.…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-09-16 Leonid Galtchouk , Serguei Pergamenchtchikov

Of primary interest in this paper is the numerical approximation of a time dependent fractional, in space, diffusion equation where the domain is assumed to be nonhomogeneous, having different axial diffusion coefficients. This work is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 T. Catoe , V. J. Ervin

Diffusion models have achieved huge empirical success in data generation tasks. Recently, some efforts have been made to adapt the framework of diffusion models to discrete state space, providing a more natural approach for modeling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-15 Hongrui Chen , Lexing Ying

To investigate a time-consistent optimal strategy for the continuous time mean-variance model, we develop a new method to establish the Bellman principle. Based on this new method, we obtain a time-consistent dynamic optimal strategy that…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-07-24 Shuzhen Yang

We discuss equivalent formulations of the control of conditional processes introduced by Lions. In this problem, a controlled diffusion process is killed once it hits the boundary of a given domain and the controller's reward is computed…

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