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Diffusion Models represent a significant advancement in generative modeling, employing a dual-phase process that first degrades domain-specific information via Gaussian noise and restores it through a trainable model. This framework enables…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Benedikt Hartl , Yanbo Zhang , Hananel Hazan , Michael Levin

This study deals with continuous limits of interacting one-dimensional diffusive systems, arising from stochastic distortions of discrete curves with various kinds of coding representations. These systems are essentially of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-09 Guy Fayolle , Cyril Furtlehner

Evolutionary graph theory studies the evolutionary dynamics in a population structure given as a connected graph. Each node of the graph represents an individual of the population, and edges determine how offspring are placed. We consider…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen , Martin A. Nowak

Generative models on discrete state-spaces have a wide range of potential applications, particularly in the domain of natural sciences. In continuous state-spaces, controllable and flexible generation of samples with desired properties has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Hunter Nisonoff , Junhao Xiong , Stephan Allenspach , Jennifer Listgarten

We revisit a classical continuum model for the diffusion of multiple species with size-exclusion constraint, which leads to a degenerate nonlinear cross-diffusion system. The purpose of this article is twofold: first, it aims at a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Katharina Hopf , Martin Burger

We study a continuous-time dynamical system that models the evolving distribution of genotypes in an infinite population where genomes may have infinitely many or even a continuum of loci, mutations accumulate along lineages without…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-02-03 Aubrey Clayton , Steven N. Evans

We consider the question of the stability of evolutionary algorithms to gradual changes, or drift, in the target concept. We define an algorithm to be resistant to drift if, for some inverse polynomial drift rate in the target function, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Varun Kanade , Leslie G. Valiant , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

Non-selective effects, like genetic drift, are an important factor in modern conceptions of evolution, and have been extensively studied for constant population sizes. Here, we consider non-selective evolution in the case of growing…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-04 Karl Wienand , Matthias Lechner , Felix Becker , Heinrich Jung , Erwin Frey

Discrete diffusion models have recently shown significant progress in modeling complex data, such as natural languages and DNA sequences. However, unlike diffusion models for continuous data, which can generate high-quality samples in just…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Anji Liu , Oliver Broadrick , Mathias Niepert , Guy Van den Broeck

We consider a population of N individuals, whose dynamics through time is represented by a biparental Moran model with two types: an advantaged type and a disadvantaged type. The advantage is due to a mutation, transmitted in a Mendelian…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Camille Coron , Yves Le Jan

Constraints can affect dramatically the behavior of diffusion processes. Recently, we analyzed a natural and a technological system and reported that they perform diffusion-like discrete steps displaying a peculiar constraint, whereby the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-23 Salvatore Mandrà , Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino , Marco Gherardi

Many mathematical models of evolution assume that all individuals experience the same environment. Here, we study the Moran process in heterogeneous environments. The population is of finite size with two competing types, which are exposed…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-19 Kamran Kaveh , Alex McAvoy , Martin A. Nowak

Cumulants and moments are closely related to the basic mathematics of continuous and discrete selection (respectively). These relationships generalize Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection and also make clear some of its…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-17 Hasan Ahmed , Deena Goodgold , Khushali Kothari , Rustom Antia

We give a very short introduction to discrete and continuum models for the evolutionary and spatial dynamics of cancer through two case studies: a model for the evolutionary dynamics of cancer cells under cytotoxic therapy and a model for…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-07 Tommaso Lorenzi , Fiona R. Macfarlane , Chiara Villa

In this paper we consider the two-type Moran model with $N$ individuals. Each individual is assigned a resampling rate, drawn independently from a probability distribution ${\mathbb P}$ on ${\mathbb R}_+$, and a type, either $1$ or $0$.…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Siva Athreya , Frank den Hollander , Adrian Röllin

We discuss the population dynamics with selection and random diffusion, keeping the total population constant, in a fitness landscape associated with Constraint Satisfaction, a paradigm for difficult optimization problems. We obtain a phase…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-23 Tommaso Brotto , Guy Bunin , Jorge Kurchan

Different evolutionary models are known to make disparate predictions for the success of an invading mutant in some situations. For example, some evolutionary mechanics lead to amplification of selection in structured populations, while…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-01 Francisco Herrerías-Azcué , Vicente Pérez-Muñuzuri , Tobias Galla

The evolution of dispersal is a classical question in evolutionary biology, and it has been studied in a wide range of mathematical models. A selection-mutation model, in which the population is structured by space and a phenotypic trait,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-12 King-Yeung Lam , Yuan Lou , Benoit Perthame

We consider a two-species simple exclusion process on a periodic lattice. We use the method of matched asymptotics to derive evolution equations for the two population densities in the dilute regime, namely a cross-diffusion system of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 James Mason , Robert L Jack , Maria Bruna

In this paper we present some basic uniqueness results for evolutive equations under density constraints. First, we develop a rigorous proof of a well-known result (among specialists) in the case where the spontaneous velocity field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-19 Simone Di Marino , Alpár Richárd Mészáros