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We study ODEs with vector fields given by general Schwartz distributions, and we show that if we perturb such an equation by adding an infinitely regularizing path, then it has a unique solution and it induces an infinitely smooth flow of diffeomorphisms. We also introduce a criterion under which the sample paths of a Gaussian process are infinitely regularizing, and we present two processes which satisfy our criterion. The results are based on the path-wise space-time regularity properties of local times, and solutions are constructed using the approach of Catellier-Gubinelli based on non-linear Young integrals.
In this paper we solve a selection problem for multidimensional SDE $d X^varepsilon(t)=a(X^varepsilon(t)) d t+varepsilon sigma(X^varepsilon(t)), d W(t)$, where the drift and diffusion are locally Lipschitz continuous outside of a fixed hyperplane $H$. It is assumed that $X^varepsilon(0)=x^0in H$, the drift $a(x)$ has a Hoelder asymptotics as $x$ approaches $H$, and the limit ODE $d X(t)=a(X(t)), d t$ does not have a unique solution. We show that if the drift pushes the solution away of $H$, then the limit process with certain probabilities selects some extreme solutions to the limit ODE. If the drift attracts the solution to $H$, then the limit process satisfies an ODE with some averaged coefficients. To prove the last result we formulate an averaging principle, which is quite general and new.
We investigate the regularizing effect of certain additive continuous perturbations on SDEs with multiplicative fractional Brownian motion (fBm). Traditionally, a Lipschitz requirement on the drift and diffusion coefficients is imposed to ensure existence and uniqueness of the SDE. We show that suitable perturbations restore existence, uniqueness and regularity of the flow for the resulting equation, even when both the drift and the diffusion coefficients are distributional, thus extending the program of regularization by noise to the case of multiplicative SDEs. Our method relies on a combination of the non-linear Young formalism developed by Catellier and Gubinelli, and stochastic averaging estimates recently obtained by Hairer and Li.
We consider the problem of regularization by noise for the three dimensional magnetohydrodynamical (3D MHD) equations. It is shown that, in a suitable scaling limit, multiplicative noise of transport type gives rise to bounds on the vorticity fields of the fluid velocity and magnetic fields. As a result, if the noise intensity is big enough, then the stochastic 3D MHD equations admit a pathwise unique global solution for large initial data, with high probability.
Training Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) is often computationally expensive. Indeed, computing the forward pass of such models involves solving an ODE which can become arbitrarily complex during training. Recent works have shown that regularizing the dynamics of the ODE can partially alleviate this. In this paper we propose a new regularization technique: randomly sampling the end time of the ODE during training. The proposed regularization is simple to implement, has negligible overhead and is effective across a wide variety of tasks. Further, the technique is orthogonal to several other methods proposed to regularize the dynamics of ODEs and as such can be used in conjunction with them. We show through experiments on normalizing flows, time series models and image recognition that the proposed regularization can significantly decrease training time and even improve performance over baseline models.
Existence and uniqueness of solutions to the stochastic heat equation with multiplicative spatial noise is studied. In the spirit of pathwise regularization by noise, we show that a perturbation by a sufficiently irregular continuous path establish wellposedness of such equations, even when the drift and diffusion coefficients are given as generalized functions or distributions. In addition we prove regularity of the averaged field associated to a Levy fractional stable motion, and use this as an example of a perturbation regularizing the multiplicative stochastic heat equation.