MAIRE , Sylvain

We describe Monte Carlo algorithms to solve elliptic partial differen- tial equations with piecewise constant diffusion coefficients and general boundary conditions including Robin and transmission conditions as well as a damping term. The treatment of the boundary conditions is done via stochastic finite differences techniques which possess an...

In this work, we develop a probabilistic estimator for the voltage-to-current map arising in electrical impedance tomography. This novel so-called partially reflecting random walk on spheres estimator enables Monte Carlo methods to compute the voltage-to-current map in an embarrassingly parallel manner, which is an important issue with regard...

We improve an adaptive integration algorithm proposed by two of the authors by introducing a new splitting strategy based on a geometrical criterion. This algorithm is tested especially on the pricing of multidimensional vanilla options in the Black–Scholes framework which emphasizes the numerical problems of integrating non-smooth functions....

A new Walk on Equations (WE) Monte Carlo algorithm for Linear Algebra (LA) problem is proposed and studied. This algorithm relies on a non-discounted sum of an absorbed random walk. It can be applied for either real or complex matrices. Several techniques like simultaneous scoring or the sequential Monte Carlo method are applied to improve the...

In this letter, the problem of nonnegative tensor decompositions is addressed. Classically, this problem is carried out using iterative (either alternating or global) deterministic optimization algorithms. Here, a rather different stochastic approach is suggested. In addition, the ever-increasing volume of data requires the development of new...

The electrostatic potential in the neighborhood of a biomolecule can be computed thanks to the non-linear divergence-form elliptic Poisson-Boltzmann PDE. Dedicated Monte-Carlo methods have been developed to solve its linearized version (see e.g.Bossy et al 2009, Mascagni & Simonov 2004}). These algorithms combine walk on spheres techniques and...