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This paper focuses on minimizing a smooth function combined with a nonsmooth regularization term on a compact Riemannian submanifold embedded in the Euclidean space under a decentralized setting. Typically, there are two types of approaches…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Lei Wang , Le Bao , Xin Liu

In this review article, we discuss connections between the physics of disordered systems, phase transitions in inference problems, and computational hardness. We introduce two models representing the behavior of glassy systems, the spiked…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-07 David Gamarnik , Cristopher Moore , Lenka Zdeborová

We review some recent coarse-graining and multi-scale methods, but also put forward some new ideas for addressing such issues. We find that, if one is guided by nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, it is possible to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-06 Patrick Ilg , Vlasis Mavrantzas , Hans Christian Öttinger

We develop an unconditionally energy-stable tensor-product space-time discretization framework for the solution of a linear kinetic transport equation in one space dimension. The kinetic equation is a simplified model of radiative transfer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Anita Gjesteland , Sigrun Ortleb , Salim Elghawi , David C. Del Rey Fernández

Understanding the structure and dynamics of liquids is pivotal for the study of larger spatiotemporal processes, especially in glass-forming materials at low temperatures. Density scaling, observed in many molecular systems through…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-29 Jaehyeok Jin , David R. Reichman , Jeppe C. Dyre , Ulf R. Pedersen

Recent studies have indicated that the coarse grained dynamics of a large class of traffic models and driven-diffusive systems may be described by urn models. We consider a class of one-dimensional urn models whereby particles hop from an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Levine , D. Mukamel , G. Ziv

We apply the consistent discretization scheme to general relativity particularized to the Gowdy space-times. This is the first time the framework has been applied in detail in a non-linear generally-covariant gravitational situation with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Rodolfo Gambini , Marcelo Ponce , Jorge Pullin

We investigate discrete spin transformations, a geometric framework to manipulate surface meshes by controlling mean curvature. Applications include surface fairing -- flowing a mesh onto say, a reference sphere -- and mesh extrusion --…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Loic Le Folgoc , Daniel C. Castro , Jeremy Tan , Bishesh Khanal , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Ian Walker , Amir Alansary , Ben Glocker

This work explores the trade-off between the number of samples required to accurately build models of dynamical systems and the degradation of performance in various control objectives due to a coarse approximation. In particular, we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Stephen Tu , Ross Boczar , Andrew Packard , Benjamin Recht

We investigate fundamental connections between thermodynamics and quantum information theory. First, we show that the operational framework of thermal operations is nonequivalent to the framework of Gibbs-preserving maps, and we comment on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Philippe Faist

Can complex engineered and biological networks be coarse-grained into smaller and more understandable versions in which each node represents an entire pattern in the original network? To address this, we define coarse-graining units (CGU)…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 Shalev Itzkovitz , Reuven Levitt , Nadav Kashtan , Ron Milo , Michael Itzkovitz , Uri Alon

Quantum simulation has begun to penetrate the field of quantum chemistry in hopes of efficiently calculating ground state energies and approximating real-time evolution. With modern research highlighting nonadiabatic dynamics, tunably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Joshua M. Courtney , P. C. Stancil

Jamming is a common feature of out of equilibrium systems showing slow relaxation dynamics. Here we review our efforts in understanding jamming in granular materials using experiments and computer simulations. We first obtain an estimation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Chaoming Song , Ping Wang , Fabricio Potiguar , Hernan A. Makse

A novel notion for constructing a well-balanced scheme - a gradient-robust scheme - is introduced and a showcase application for a steady compressible, isothermal Stokes equations is presented. Gradient-robustness means that arbitrary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Mine Akbas , Thierry Gallouet , Almut Gassmann , Alexander Linke , Christian Merdon

The standard (``fine-grained'') interpretation of quantum density functional theory, in which densities are specified with infinitely-fine spatial resolution, is mathematically unruly. Here, a coarse-grained version of DFT, featuring…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Paul E. Lammert

The interaction between a fluid and a wall is described with a certain boundary condition for the fluid velocity at the wall. To understand how fluids behave near a rough wall, the fluid velocity at every point of the rough surface may be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-18 Akankshya Majhi , Lars Kool , Jasper van der Gucht , Joshua A. Dijksman

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for generative tasks in deep learning. They decompose generative modeling into two computational primitives: deterministic neural-network evaluation and stochastic sampling. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Nihal Sanjay Singh , Mazdak Mohseni-Rajaee , Shaila Niazi , Kerem Y. Camsari

We establish, through coarse-grained computation, a connection between traditional, continuum numerical algorithms (initial value problems as well as fixed point algorithms) and atomistic simulations of the Larson model of micelle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Dmitry I. Kopelevich , Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Finite stochastic Markov models play a major role for modelling biochemical pathways. Such models are a coarse-grained description of the underlying microscopic dynamics and can be considered mesoscopic. The level of coarse-graining is to a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 Bernhard Altaner , Jürgen Vollmer

We derive a mesoscopic modeling and simulation technique that is very close to the technique known as dissipative particle dynamics. The model is derived from molecular dynamics by means of a systematic coarse-graining procedure. Thus the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Eirik G. Flekkoy , Peter V. Coveney , Gianni De Fabritiis