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Reversible Stratonovich perturbations for accelerating convergence to equilibrium of Langevin dynamics

Guillaume Louis·Grigorios A. Pavliotis·Gilles Vilmart
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In this paper, we study the problem of sampling from a probability distribution using Langevin-type dynamics. We consider overdamped Langevin dynamics perturbed by adding a Stratonovich perturbation that preserves reversibility. We prove an optimal scaling for the Stratonovich perturbation applied to Gaussian target distributions and derive an algorithm to construct such perturbation. Our theoretical results are supplemented by numerical experiments in which we compare our proposed method with nonreversible samplers and overdamped Langevin dynamics. Our numerical experiments demonstrate the efficiency of the approach beyond the quadratic case.

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Guillaume Louis, Grigorios A. Pavliotis, Gilles Vilmart. 2026-10-02. Reversible Stratonovich perturbations for accelerating convergence to equilibrium of Langevin dynamics. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03191

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