?
Diffusion approximations and control variates for MCMC
Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics. 2024. Vol. 64. No. 4. P. 693–738.
A new method is introduced for the construction of control variates to reduce the variance of additive functionals of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) samplers. These control variates are obtained by minimizing the asymptotic variance associated with the Langevin diffusion over a family of functions. To motivate our approach, we then show that the asymptotic variance of some well-known MCMC algorithms, including the Random Walk Metropolis and the (Metropolis) Unadjusted/Adjusted Langevin Algorithm, are well approximated by that of the Langevin diffusion. We finally theoretically justify the use of a class of linear control variates we introduce. In particular, we show that the variance of the resulting estimators is smaller, for a given computational complexity, than the standard Monte Carlo estimator. Several examples of Bayesian inference problems support our findings showing, in some cases, very significant reduction of the variance.
Осипов Д.В., Математический сборник 2026 Т. 217 № 9 С. 130–146
Изучаются законы взаимности, связанные с комплексными линейными расслоениями на расслоениях на ориентируемые окружности. В частности, доказывается следующий закон взаимности. Пусть B – комплексное многообразие и πi:Mi→B – расслоение на ориентируемые окружности, где индекс i пробегает конечное множество. Пусть Li и Ni – комплексные линейные расслоения на каждом многообразии Mi. Закон взаимности утверждает, что сумма всех элементов (πi)∗(c1(Li)∪c1(Ni)), где (πi)∗ – ...
Added: September 3, 2026
Khodadoust J., Kulikova S., Khodadoust F., Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 2027 Vol. 129 P. 111284–111284
Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) analysis from two-dimensional (2D) clinical imaging is hindered by uncontrolled slice tilt and geometric inconsistencies that violate the assumptions of pose-agnostic deep learning (DL) models. This paper proposes a unified geometry-aware, frequency-domain framework for tilted slice localization and ischemic stroke segmentation that explicitly decouples pose estimation from lesion analysis. The method ...
Added: September 2, 2026
IEEE, 2026.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, it is my great pleasure to extend a warm
welcome to all participants of the Fourth International IEEE Conference on
Distributed Computing and High-Performance Computing (DCHPC 2026), held
in Tehran from May 10–11, 2026. This conference is jointly organized by the
School of Computer Science at the Institute for Research in Fundamental
Sciences (IPM) ...
Added: September 2, 2026
Basalaev A., Rarovskii A., Journal of Singularities 2026 Vol. 30 P. 61–80
Saito theory associates to an isolated singularity rich structure that plays an important role in mirror symmetry. In this note we construct Saito theory for A and D type Landau-Ginzburg orbifolds. Namely, for the pairs (f,G), where f defines an isolated singularity of A and D type and G is a group of symmetries of ...
Added: September 1, 2026
Rybakov M., Shkatov D., Journal of Logic and Computation 2026 Vol. 36 No. 6 Article exag026
We prove Pi-1-1-hardness, and thus lack of recursive axiomatizability, of constant-domain modal predicate logics defined by a class of Dedekind complete linear Kripke frames containing a frame with an infinitely increasing chain of worlds. The result holds even for the language with one unary predicate letter, one propositional letter, and two individual variables. ...
Added: September 1, 2026
Селянин Ф. И., Moscow Mathematical Journal 2026 Vol. 26 No. 2 P. 167–187
Minkowski mixed volume of n subpolytopes D1,…,Dn of a polytope P⊂Rn clearly does not exceed the normalized volume n!Vol(P). Equality holds if and only if the subpolytopes are interlaced, i.e., each proper face F⊊P intersects at least dim(F)+1 of the polytopes Di. Efficiently computing mixed volumes for more general collections of subpolytopes is crucial for estimating the complexity of numerically solving polynomial systems.
Motivated by relaxing the bound dim(F)+1 to dim(F), we ...
Added: August 31, 2026
Kazaryan M., Dunin-Barkowski P., Bychkov B. et al., International Mathematics Research Notices 2026 Vol. 14 Article rnag146
We prove a recent conjecture of the fourth named author with P. Norbury that states a system of universal polynomial relations among the kappa classes on the moduli spaces of algebraic curves. The proof involves localization and materialization analysis of the spin Gromov–Witten theory of the projective line and is dictated by Z 2 -equivariant ...
Added: August 31, 2026
Kazaryan M., Dunin-Barkowski P., Bychkov B. et al., Communications in Mathematical Physics 2026 Vol. 407 No. 69
We prove that for any initial data on a genus zero spectral curve the cor responding correlation differentials of topological recursion are KP integrable. As an application we prove KP integrability of partition functions associated via ELSV-type formulas to the r-th roots of the twisted powers of the log canonical bundles ...
Added: August 31, 2026
Gromov V., Переслегин С. Б., Переслегина Е. Б. et al., СПб.: Полакс, 2026.
Механизм происходящих в мире изменений носит эволюционный, а не экологический характер. Иначе говоря, Человечество столкнулось с кризисом развития, который имеет три независимые составляющие: кризис индустриального общества (фазовый кризис), кризис научного мышления (эпистемный кризис) и кризис формата существования разума (социосистемный кризис). Доклад посвящён аспектам этого триединого кризиса и возможным путям его преодоления, не сводящимся к первичному ...
Added: August 31, 2026
Devyatov R. A., Mathematical notes 2026 Vol. 119 No. 3 P. 782–786
Let G/B be a flag variety over ℂ, where G is a simple algebraic group with a simply laced Dynkin diagram, and B is a Borel subgroup. We say that the product of classes of Schubert divisors in the Chow ring is multiplicity free if it is possible to multiply it by a Schubert class ...
Added: August 30, 2026
Bayer A., Kuznetsov A., Macrì E., Journal fuer die reine und angewandte Mathematik 2026 Vol. 2026 No. 836 P. 111–162
We give a self-contained and simplified proof of Mukai’s classification of prime Fano threefolds of index 1 and genus g ≥ 6 with at most factorial terminal singularities, and of its extension to higher dimension. ...
Added: August 30, 2026
Bayer A., Kuznetsov A., Macrì E., Compositio Mathematica 2026 Vol. 162 No. 1 P. 59–99
We give a proof of Mukai’s theorem on the existence of certain exceptional vector bundles on prime Fano threefolds. To our knowledge this is the first complete proof in the literature. The result is essential for Mukai’s biregular classification of prime Fano threefolds, and for the existence of semiorthogonal decompositions in their derived categories. Our ...
Added: August 30, 2026
Guseva L., Novikov A., Advances in Mathematics 2026 Vol. 503 Article 111211
We prove that the Kuznetsov–Polishchuk exceptional collections on rational homogeneous spaces of the symplectic groups Sp(2n,C) are full and consist of vector bundles. To achieve this, we construct several classes of complexes, which we call generalized staircase complexes, symplectic staircase complexes and secondary staircase complexes — each of which may be of independent interest. ...
Added: August 30, 2026
Polishchuk A., Rains E., Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu 2026 Vol. 25 No. 1 P. 339–373
We prove that for every relatively prime pair of integers (d,r) with r>0, there exists an exceptional pair (O,V) on any del Pezzo surface of degree 4, such that V is a bundle of rank r and degree d. As an application, we prove that every Feigin-Odesskii Poisson bracket on a projective space can be ...
Added: August 30, 2026
Kazhdan D., Polishchuk A., Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly 2026 Vol. 22 No. 3 P. 1115–1166
We continue the study of automorphic functions associated with a curve C over the ring k[ε]/(ε²), where k is a finite field, begun in arXiv:2303.16259. Namely, we study an example of theta-lifting in this framework and show that it can be understood in terms of the orbit decomposition of the space of automorphic functions S(SL₂(F)\SL₂(A_C)) ...
Added: August 30, 2026
Gladin E., Alkousa M., Gasnikov A., Automation and Remote Control 2021 Vol. 82 P. 1679–1691
The article deals with some approaches to solving convex problems of the min-min type with smoothness and strong convexity in only one of the two groups of variables. It is shown that the proposed approaches based on Vaidya’s method, the fast gradient method, and the accelerated gradient method with variance reduction have linear convergence. It ...
Added: November 29, 2024
Gladin E., Borodich E., Computer Research and Modeling 2022 Vol. 14 No. 2 P. 257–275
The paper is devoted to convex-concave saddle point problems where the objective is a sum of a large number of functions. Such problems attract considerable attention of the mathematical community due to the variety of applications in machine learning, including adversarial learning, adversarial attacks and robust reinforcement learning, to name a few. The individual functions ...
Added: November 29, 2024
Belomestny D., Goldman A., Naumov A. et al., Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 2024 Vol. 220 P. 382–405
In this paper, we propose a variance reduction approach for Markov chains based on additive control variates and the minimization of an appropriate estimate for the asymptotic variance. We focus on the particular case when control variates are represented as deep neural networks. We derive the optimal convergence rate of the asymptotic variance under various ...
Added: June 28, 2023
Durmus A., Moulines E., Naumov A. et al., / Series arXiv "math". 2023.
In this paper, we establish novel deviation bounds for additive functionals of geometrically ergodic Markov chains similar to Rosenthal and Bernstein-type inequalities for sums of independent random variables. We pay special attention to the dependence of our bounds on the mixing time of the corresponding chain. Our proof technique is, as far as we know, ...
Added: June 18, 2023
Belomestny D., Kaledin M., Golubev A., /. 2022.
Policy-gradient methods in Reinforcement Learning(RL) are very universal and widely applied in practice but their performance suffers from the high variance of the gradient estimate. Several procedures were proposed to reduce it including actor-critic(AC) and advantage actor-critic(A2C) methods. Recently the approaches have got new perspective due to the introduction of Deep RL: both new control ...
Added: April 14, 2023
Samsonov S., Lagutin E., Gabrie M. et al., , in: Thirty-Sixth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems : NeurIPS 2022.: Curran Associates, Inc., 2022. P. 5178–5193.
Added: February 1, 2023
Cardoso G., Samsonov S., Thin A. et al., , in: Thirty-Sixth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems : NeurIPS 2022.: Curran Associates, Inc., 2022. P. 716–729.
Added: February 1, 2023
Belomestny Denis, Iosipoi L., Paris Q. et al., Bernoulli: a journal of mathematical statistics and probability 2022 Vol. 28 No. 2 P. 1382–1407
We study the problem of empirical minimization for variance-type functionals over functional classes. Sharp non-asymptotic bounds for the excess variance are derived under mild conditions. In particular, it is shown that under some restrictions imposed on the functional class fast convergence rates can be achieved including the optimal non-parametric rates for expressive classes in the ...
Added: April 17, 2022
Eduard Gorbunov, Kovalev D., Makarenko D. et al., , in: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33 (NeurIPS 2020).: Curran Associates, Inc., 2020. P. 20889–20900.
Added: December 7, 2020