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We establish a duality between L^p-Wasserstein control and L^q-gradient estimate in a general framework. Our result extends a known result for a heat flow on a Riemannian manifold. Especially, we can derive a Wasserstein control of a heat…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-10-12 Kazumasa Kuwada

The local persistent current in two dimensional strongly interacting systems is investigated. As the interaction strength is enhanced the current in the sample undergoes a transition from diffusive to ordered flow. The strong interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Richard Berkovits , Yshai Avishai

The nature of particle and entropy flow between two superfluids is often understood in terms of reversible flow carried by an entropy-free, macroscopic wavefunction. While this wavefunction is responsible for many intriguing properties of…

The Wasserstein space of probability measures is known for its intricate Riemannian structure, which underpins the Wasserstein geometry and enables gradient flow algorithms. However, the Wasserstein geometry may not be suitable for certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Zhengxin Zhang , Ziv Goldfeld , Kristjan Greenewald , Youssef Mroueh , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur

We present numerical simulations of diffusio-osmotic flow, i.e. the fluid flow generated by a concentration gradient along a solid-fluid interface. In our study, we compare a number of distinct approaches that have been proposed for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-23 Yawei Liu , Raman Ganti , Daan Frenkel

We derive the system of differential equations for the gradient flow characterizing the training process of linear in-context learning in full generality. Next, we explore the geometric structure of the gradient flows in two instances,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Songtao Lu , Yingdong Lu , Tomasz Nowicki

The conventional no-slip boundary condition leads to a non-integrable stress singularity at a contact line. This is a main challenge in numerical simulations of two-phase flows with moving contact lines. We derive a two-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-23 Hanna Holmgren , Gunilla Kreiss

We demonstrate the possibility of a turbulent flow of electrons in graphene in the hydrodynamic region, by calculating the corresponding turbulent probability density function. This is used to calculate the contribution of the turbulent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Kumar S. Gupta , Siddhartha Sen

We provide a numerical analysis and computation of neural network projected schemes for approximating one dimensional Wasserstein gradient flows. We approximate the Lagrangian mapping functions of gradient flows by the class of two-layer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Xinzhe Zuo , Jiaxi Zhao , Shu Liu , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

We reveal a precise mathematical framework about a new family of generative models which we call Gradient Flow Drifting. With this framework, we prove an equivalence between the recently proposed Drifting Model and the Wasserstein gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jiarui Cao , Zixuan Wei , Yuxin Liu

In finite dimension, the long-time and metastable behavior of a gradient flow perturbated by a small Brownian noise is well understood. A similar situation arises when a Wasserstein gradient flow over a space of probability measure is…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Pierre Monmarché

Dynamical systems of N particles in \R^{D} interacting by a singular pair potential of mean field type are considered. The systems are assumed to be of gradient type and the existence of a macroscopic limit in the many particle limit is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Robert J. Berman , Magnus Önnheim

We consider the $L^2$ gradient flow for the Willmore functional in Riemannian manifolds of bounded geometry. In the euclidean case E.\;Kuwert and R.\;Sch\"atzle [\textsl{Gradient flow for the Willmore functional,} Comm. Anal. Geom., 10:…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Florian Link

Motivated by a recent method for approximate solution of Fredholm equations of the first kind, we develop a corresponding method for a class of Fredholm equations of the \emph{second kind}. In particular, we consider the class of equations…

Computation · Statistics 2026-02-19 Francesca R. Crucinio , Adam M. Johansen

We provide gradient flow interpretations for the continuous-time continuous-state Hopfield neural network (HNN). The ordinary and stochastic differential equations associated with the HNN were introduced in the literature as analog…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-15 Abhishek Halder , Kenneth F. Caluya , Bertrand Travacca , Scott J. Moura

We examine the infinite-dimensional optimization problem of finding a decomposition of a probability measure into K probability sub-measures to minimize specific loss functions inspired by applications in clustering and user grouping. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Jiangze Han , Christopher Thomas Ryan , Xin T. Tong

In this paper, a novel fully-explicit weakly compressible solver is developed for solving incompressible two-phase flows. The two-phase flow is modelled by coupling the general pressure equation, momentum conservation equations and the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Ashley Melvin , J. C. Mandal

Our work is motivated by a desire to study the theoretical underpinning for the convergence of stochastic gradient type algorithms widely used for non-convex learning tasks such as training of neural networks. The key insight, already…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Kaitong Hu , Zhenjie Ren , David Siska , Lukasz Szpruch

Collective modes in two-dimensional electron fluids show an interesting response to a background carrier flow. Surface plasmons propagating on top of a flowing Fermi liquid acquire a non-reciprocal character manifest in a $\pm k$ asymmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Haoyang Gao , Zhiyu Dong , Leonid Levitov

Recent progress in robust statistical learning has mainly tackled convex problems, like mean estimation or linear regression, with non-convex challenges receiving less attention. Phase retrieval exemplifies such a non-convex problem,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-15 Alex Buna , Patrick Rebeschini