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We analyse a random motion of a particle on a fractal curve, using Langevin approach. This involves defining a new velocity in terms of mass of the fractal curve, as defined in recent work. The geometry of the fractal curve, hence plays an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Seema Satin , A. D. Gangal

We present a model-based output-only method for identifying from time series the parameters governing the dynamics of stochastically forced oscillators. In this context, suitable models of the oscillator's damping and stiffness properties…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-04 Edouard Boujo , Nicolas Noiray

Starting from interaction rules based on two levels of stochasticity we study the influence of the microscopic dynamics on the macroscopic properties of vehicular flow. In particular, we study the qualitative structure of the resulting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-06 Giuseppe Visconti , Michael Herty , Gabriella Puppo , Andrea Tosin

We propose a new algorithm---Stochastic Proximal Langevin Algorithm (SPLA)---for sampling from a log concave distribution. Our method is a generalization of the Langevin algorithm to potentials expressed as the sum of one stochastic smooth…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-17 Adil Salim , Dmitry Kovalev , Peter Richtárik

The work concerns a class of path-dependent McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations with unknown parameters. First, we prove the existence and uniqueness of these equations under non-Lipschitz conditions. Second, we construct…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-03 Meiqi Liu , Huijie Qiao

Markov chains are fundamental models for stochastic dynamics, with applications in a wide range of areas such as population dynamics, queueing systems, reinforcement learning, and Monte Carlo methods. Estimating the transition matrix and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Lasse Leskelä , Maximilien Dreveton

In this article we consider likelihood-based estimation of static parameters for a class of partially observed McKean-Vlasov (POMV) diffusion process with discrete-time observations over a fixed time interval. In particular, using the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-12 Ajay Jasra , Mohamed Maama , Raul Tempone

We consider minimization of stochastic functionals that are compositions of a (potentially) non-smooth convex function $h$ and smooth function $c$ and, more generally, stochastic weakly-convex functionals. We develop a family of stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-25 John Duchi , Feng Ruan

Presentation of the probability as an intrinsic property of the nature leads researchers to switch from deterministic to stochastic description of the phenomena. The procedure of stochastization of one-step process was formulated. It allows…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 M. Hnatich , E. G. Eferina , A. V. Korolkova , D. S. Kulyabov , L. A. Sevastyanov

The construction of effective and informative landscapes for stochastic dynamical systems has proven a long-standing and complex problem. In many situations, the dynamics may be described by a Langevin equation while constructing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-12 Rowan D Brackston , Andrew Wynn , Michael P H Stumpf

This paper presents a direct method to obtain the deterministic and stochastic contribution of the sum of two independent sets of stochastic processes, one of which is composed by Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes and the other being a general…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-10-27 Teresa Scholz , Frank Raischel , Vitor V. Lopes , Bernd Lehle , Matthias Wächter , Joachim Peinke , Pedro G. Lind

In this paper we investigate how gradient-based algorithms such as gradient descent, (multi-pass) stochastic gradient descent, its persistent variant, and the Langevin algorithm navigate non-convex loss-landscapes and which of them is able…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-03-22 Francesca Mignacco , Pierfrancesco Urbani , Lenka Zdeborová

We present a method for the nonparametric estimation of the drift function of certain types of stochastic differential equations from the empirical density. It is based on a variational formulation of the Fokker-Planck equation. The…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-12-16 Philipp Batz , Andreas Ruttor , Manfred Opper

In recent years, there has been remarkable progress in theoretical justification of the complex Langevin method, which is a promising method for evading the sign problem in the path integral with a complex weight. There still remains,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-09 Jun Nishimura , Shinji Shimasaki

Within the calibration of material models, often the numerical results of a simulation model $y$ are compared with the experimental measurements $y^*$. Usually, the differences between measurements and simulation are minimized using least…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-14 Thomas Most

We consider a stochastic logistic growth model involving both birth and death rates in the drift and diffusion coefficients for which extinction eventually occurs almost surely. The associated complete Fokker-Planck equation describing the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-09 Fabien Campillo , Marc Joannides , Irène Larramendy-Valverde

In this paper, we propose a novel method to approximate the mean field stochastic differential equation by means of approximating the density function via Fokker-Planck equation. We construct a well-posed truncated Fokker-Planck equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Jinhui Zhou , Yongkui Zou , Shimin Chai , Boyu Wang , Ziyi Tan

How to distinguish and quantify deterministic and random influences on the statistics of turbulence data in meteorology cases is discussed from first principles. Liquid water path (LWP) changes in clouds, as retrieved from radio signals,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Ivanova , M. Ausloos

We define a characteristic function for probability measures on the signatures of geometric rough paths. We determine sufficient conditions under which a random variable is uniquely determined by its expected signature, thus partially…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Ilya Chevyrev , Terry Lyons

Many physical systems characterized by nonlinear multiscale interactions can be effectively modeled by treating unresolved degrees of freedom as random fluctuations. However, even when the microscopic governing equations and qualitative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-07 Jared L. Callaham , Jean-Christophe Loiseau , Georgios Rigas , Steven L. Brunton