Large Deviations and Importance Sampling for Systems of Slow-Fast Motion
- Brown University, Division of Applied Mathematics (United States)
In this paper we develop the large deviations principle and a rigorous mathematical framework for asymptotically efficient importance sampling schemes for general, fully dependent systems of stochastic differential equations of slow and fast motion with small noise in the slow component. We assume periodicity with respect to the fast component. Depending on the interaction of the fast scale with the smallness of the noise, we get different behavior. We examine how one range of interaction differs from the other one both for the large deviations and for the importance sampling. We use the large deviations results to identify asymptotically optimal importance sampling schemes in each case. Standard Monte Carlo schemes perform poorly in the small noise limit. In the presence of multiscale aspects one faces additional difficulties and straightforward adaptation of importance sampling schemes for standard small noise diffusions will not produce efficient schemes. It turns out that one has to consider the so called cell problem from the homogenization theory for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations in order to guarantee asymptotic optimality. We use stochastic control arguments.
- OSTI ID:
- 22156529
- Journal Information:
- Applied Mathematics and Optimization, Journal Name: Applied Mathematics and Optimization Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 67; ISSN 0095-4616
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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