Error of randomized Milstein scheme for scalar SDEs with noisy information about coefficients and Wiener process

arXiv:2607.29578 2026 Sampling 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Aug 31, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper gives a sharp robustness law for randomized Milstein integration when both coefficient evaluations and Wiener-path increments are noisy: the strong error is the sum of a discretization term and an unavoidable linear oracle-noise floor. This transfers naturally to score-based diffusion samplers, where a neural score or drift network is only an approximate coefficient oracle and numerical Brownian increments may also be quantized or otherwise perturbed. The most useful engineering consequence is a principled rule for balancing solver steps against score and derivative accuracy: increasing the number of steps beyond the oracle-noise floor cannot improve sampling fidelity.

Ideas from this paper

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Noise-aware randomized Milstein sampler

Replace an Euler-Maruyama reverse-diffusion sampler with a scalar or coordinatewise randomized Milstein step that uses an autodifferentiated score or drift derivative and explicitly tolerates noisy coefficient and Brownian evaluations. Use the paper's additive error law to stop refining the time grid when discretization error falls below the neural-oracle noise floor.

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Paper: Error of randomized Milstein scheme for scalar SDEs with noisy information about coefficients and Wiener process arXiv:2607.29578