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most citedImportance sampling in path space for diffusion processes with slow-fast variables

24 citations · 69 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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math.OC2021★ 17 cited

Solving eigenvalue PDEs of metastable diffusion processes using artificial neural networks

Wei Zhang, Tiejun Li, Christof Schütte

In this paper, we consider the eigenvalue PDE problem of the infinitesimal generators of metastable diffusion processes. We propose a numerical algorithm based on training artifici…

math.OC2021★ 1 cited

Global Solutions of Stochastic Stackelberg Differential Games under Convex Control Constraint

Liangquan Zhang, Wei Zhang

This paper is concerned with a Stackelberg stochastic differential game, where the systems are driven by stochastic differential equation (SDE for short), in which the control ente…

math.NA2020★ 1 cited

Non-reversible sampling schemes on submanifolds

Upanshu Sharma, Wei Zhang

Calculating averages with respect to probability measures on submanifolds is often necessary in various application areas such as molecular dynamics, computational statistical mech…

physics.flu-dyn2020

A theoretical framework for Koopman analyses of fluid flows, part 2: from linear to nonlinear dynamics

Wei Zhang, Mingjun Wei

A theoretic framework for dynamics is obtained by transferring dynamics from state space to its dual space. As a result, the linear structure where dynamics are analytically decomp…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 1 cited

A theoretical framework for Koopman analyses of fluid flows, part 1: local Koopman spectrum and properties

Wei Zhang, Mingjun Wei

Local Koopman spectral problem is studied to resolve all dynamics for a nonlinear system. The proposed spectral problem is compatible with the linear spectral theory for various li…

math.PR2020★ 1 cited

Some new results on relative entropy production, time reversal, and optimal control of time-inhomogeneous diffusion processes

Wei Zhang

This paper studies time-inhomogeneous nonequilibrium diffusion processes, including both Brownian dynamics and Langevin dynamics. We derive upper bounds of the relative entropy pro…

math.PR2018

Moderate deviation and central limit theorem for SDDEs with plynomial growth

Yongqiang Suo, Jin Tao, Wei Zhang

In this paper, employing the weak convergence method, based on a variational representation for expected values of positive functionals of a Brownian motion, we investigate moderat…

math.PR2018★ 1 cited

Pathwise estimates for effective dynamics: the case of nonlinear vectorial reaction coordinates

Tony Lelièvre, Wei Zhang

Effective dynamics using conditional expectation was proposed in [F. Legoll and T. Lelièvre, Nonlinearity, 2010] to approximate the essential dynamics of high-dimensional diffusion…

math-ph2018★ 9 cited

Jarzynski's equality, fluctuation theorems, and variance reduction: Mathematical analysis and numerical algorithms

Carsten Hartmann, Christof Schuette, Wei Zhang

In this paper, we study Jarzynski's equality and fluctuation theorems for diffusion processes. While some of the results considered in the current work are known in the (mainly phy…

math.PR2017★ 3 cited

Ergodic SDEs on submanifolds and related numerical sampling schemes

Wei Zhang

In many applications, it is often necessary to sample the mean value of certain quantity with respect to a probability measure μ on the level set of a smooth function $ξ: \mathbb{R…

math.PR2017★ 9 cited

Statistical analysis of the first passage path ensemble of jump processes

Max von Kleist, Christof Schütte, Wei Zhang

The transition mechanism of jump processes between two different subsets in state space reveals important dynamical information of the processes and therefore has attracted conside…

math.PR2016★ 1 cited

Asymptotic Analysis of Multiscale Markov Chain

Wei Zhang

We consider continuous-time Markov chain on a finite state space X. We assume X can be clustered into several subsets such that the intra-transition rates within these subsets are…

math.OC2015

Optimal control of Markov jump processes : Asymptotic analysis, algorithms and applications to the modelling of chemical reaction systems

Wei Zhang, Carsten Hartmann, Max von Kleist

Markov jump processes are widely used to model natural and engineered processes. In the context of biological or chemical applications one typically refers to the chemical master e…

math.PR2015★ 24 cited

Importance sampling in path space for diffusion processes with slow-fast variables

Carsten Hartmann, Christof Schütte, Marcus Weber +1

Importance sampling is a widely used technique to reduce the variance of a Monte Carlo estimator by an appropriate change of measure. In this work, we study importance sam- pling i…

math.OC2014★ 1 cited

Optimal control of multiscale systems using reduced-order models

Wei Zhang, Juan C. Latorre, Grigorios A. Pavliotis +1

We study optimal control of diffusions with slow and fast variables and address a question raised by practitioners: is it possible to first eliminate the fast variables before solv…