Complexity analysis of quasi continuous level Monte Carlo

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Main Authors: Beschle, Cedric Aaron, Barth, Andrea
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Published: 2023
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author Beschle, Cedric Aaron
Barth, Andrea
author_facet Beschle, Cedric Aaron
Barth, Andrea
contents Continuous level Monte Carlo is an unbiased, continuous version of the celebrated multilevel Monte Carlo method. The approximation level is assumed to be continuous resulting in a stochastic process describing the quantity of interest. Continuous level Monte Carlo methods allow naturally for samplewise adaptive mesh refinements, which are indicated by goal-oriented error estimators. The samplewise refinement levels are drawn in the estimator from an exponentially-distributed random variable. Unfortunately in practical examples this results in higher costs due to high variance in the samples. In this paper we propose a variant of continuous level Monte Carlo, where a quasi Monte Carlo sequence is utilized to "sample" the exponential random variable. We provide a complexity theorem for this novel estimator and show that this results theoretically and practically in a variance reduction of the whole estimator.
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spellingShingle Complexity analysis of quasi continuous level Monte Carlo
Beschle, Cedric Aaron
Barth, Andrea
Numerical Analysis
65C05, 65C10, 11K38, 65N30, 65N50
Continuous level Monte Carlo is an unbiased, continuous version of the celebrated multilevel Monte Carlo method. The approximation level is assumed to be continuous resulting in a stochastic process describing the quantity of interest. Continuous level Monte Carlo methods allow naturally for samplewise adaptive mesh refinements, which are indicated by goal-oriented error estimators. The samplewise refinement levels are drawn in the estimator from an exponentially-distributed random variable. Unfortunately in practical examples this results in higher costs due to high variance in the samples. In this paper we propose a variant of continuous level Monte Carlo, where a quasi Monte Carlo sequence is utilized to "sample" the exponential random variable. We provide a complexity theorem for this novel estimator and show that this results theoretically and practically in a variance reduction of the whole estimator.
title Complexity analysis of quasi continuous level Monte Carlo
topic Numerical Analysis
65C05, 65C10, 11K38, 65N30, 65N50
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15949