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Diffusion models have become the de facto framework for generating new datasets. The core of these models lies in the ability to reverse a diffusion process in time. The goal of this manuscript is to explain, from a PDE perspective, how…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Fei Cao , Kimball Johnston , Thomas Laurent , Justin Le , Sébastien Motsch

We develop a theory of reversible diffusion-controlled reactions with generalized binding/unbinding kinetics. In this framework, a diffusing particle can bind to the reactive substrate after a random number of arrivals onto it, with a given…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Denis S. Grebenkov

Reaction-diffusion systems with cross-diffusion terms in addition to, or instead of, the usual self-diffusion demonstrate interesting features which motivate their further study. The present work is aimed at designing a toy…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-09-18 Abdullah Aldurayhim , Vadim N. Biktashev

In this paper we consider mathematical modeling of the dynamics of self-organized patterning of spatially confined human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) treated with BMP4 (gastruloids) described in recent experimental works. In the first part…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Prajakta Bedekar , Ilya Timofeyev , Aryeh Warmflash , Misha Perepelitsa

Retrosynthesis prediction focuses on identifying reactants capable of synthesizing a target product. Typically, the retrosynthesis prediction involves two phases: Reaction Center Identification and Reactant Generation. However, we argue…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Shengyin Sun , Wenhao Yu , Yuxiang Ren , Weitao Du , Liwei Liu , Xuecang Zhang , Ying Hu , Chen Ma

Traveling fronts ubiquitous in physics, chemistry, and biology are prone to transverse cellular deformations due to diffusive or convective instabilities. Here we show both theoretically and experimentally that new patterns can be obtained…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Surya Narayan Maharana , Luka Negrojević , Alessandro Comolli , Anne De Wit

This paper addresses the problem of generating dynamically admissible trajectories for control tasks using diffusion models, particularly in scenarios where the environment is complex and system dynamics are crucial for practical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Darshan Gadginmath , Fabio Pasqualetti

This work presents RNAdiffusion, a latent diffusion model for generating and optimizing discrete RNA sequences of variable lengths. RNA is a key intermediary between DNA and protein, exhibiting high sequence diversity and complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Kaixuan Huang , Yukang Yang , Kaidi Fu , Yanyi Chu , Le Cong , Mengdi Wang

We show that propagation speeds in invasion processes modeled by reaction-diffusion systems are determined by marginal spectral stability conditions, as predicted by the marginal stability conjecture. This conjecture was recently settled in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Montie Avery

In medical imaging, the diffusion models have shown great potential for synthetic image generation tasks. However, these approaches often lack the interpretable connections between the generated and real images and can create anatomically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Jian-Qing Zheng , Yuanhan Mo , Yang Sun , Jiahua Li , Fuping Wu , Ziyang Wang , Tonia Vincent , Bartłomiej W. Papież

Many biological activities are induced by cellular chemical reactions of diffusing reactants. The dynamics of such systems can be captured by stochastic reaction networks. A recent numerical study has shown that diffusion can significantly…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-01-18 Tan Van Vu , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Open biochemical systems of interacting molecules are ubiquitous in life-related processes. However, established computational methodologies, like molecular dynamics, are still mostly constrained to closed systems and timescales too small…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-15 Margarita Kostré , Christof Schütte , Frank Noé , Mauricio J. del Razo

Diffusion language models enable parallel token generation through block-wise decoding, but their irreversible commitments can lead to stagnation, where the reverse diffusion process fails to make further progress under a suboptimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xinyun Wang , Min Zhang , Sen Cui , Zhikang Chen , Bo Jiang , Kun Kuang , Mingbao Lin

We study a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system which describes an isothermal autocatalytic chemical reaction involving both a quadratic (A + B -> 2B) and a cubic (A + 2B -> 3B) autocatalysis. The parameters of this system are the…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 Stephane Focant , Thierry Gallay

Reaction-diffusion systems have been proposed as a model for pattern formation and morphogenesis. The Fickian diffusion typically employed in these constructions model the Brownian motion of particles. The biological and chemical elements…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-09 Siddhartha Srivastava , Krishna Garikipati

Protein design with desirable properties has been a significant challenge for many decades. Generative artificial intelligence is a promising approach and has achieved great success in various protein generation tasks. Notably, diffusion…

The task of deducing three-dimensional molecular configurations from their two-dimensional graph representations holds paramount importance in the fields of computational chemistry and pharmaceutical development. The rapid advancement of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-09 Bobin Yang , Jie Deng , Zhenghan Chen , Ruoxue Wu

Image restoration is a long-standing problem in low-level computer vision with many interesting applications. We describe a flexible learning framework based on the concept of nonlinear reaction diffusion models for various image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Yunjin Chen , Thomas Pock

A generalisation of reaction diffusion systems and their travelling solutions to cases when the productive part of the reaction happens only on a surface in space or on a line on plane but the degradation and the diffusion happen in bulk…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Anton S. Zadorin

The reaction-diffusion master equation (RDME) is commonly used to model processes where both the spatial and stochastic nature of chemical reactions need to be considered. We show that the RDME in many cases is inconsistent with a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-05-29 Paul Sjoberg , Otto G Berg , Johan Elf