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This manuscript introduces a regression-type formulation for approximating the Perron-Frobenius Operator by relying on distributional snapshots of data. These snapshots may represent densities of particles. The Wasserstein metric is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Amirhossein Karimi , Tryphon T. Georgiou

We consider discrete porous medium equations of the form \partial_t \rho_t = \Delta \phi(\rho_t), where \Delta is the generator of a reversible continuous time Markov chain on a finite set X, and \phi is an increasing function. We show that…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-06 Matthias Erbar , Jan Maas

We prove general nonlinear large deviation estimates similar to Chatterjee-Dembo's original bounds except that we do not require any second order smoothness. Our approach relies on convex analysis arguments and is valid for a broad class of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Fanny Augeri

In two prior papers of this series, it was proposed that a wavefunction model of a heavy particle and a collection of light particles might generate ``Brownian-Motion-Like" trajectories as well as diffusive motion (displacement proportional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Leonardo De Carlo , W. David Wick

We analyse the large momentum behaviour of 4-dimensional massive euclidean Phi-4-theory using the flow equations of Wilson's renormalization group. The flow equations give access to a simple inductive proof of perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Christoph Kopper , Frederic Meunier

We study normal diffusive and subdiffusive processes in a harmonic potential (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process) on a uniformly growing/contracting domain. Our starting point is a recently derived fractional Fokker-Planck equation, which covers…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-31 F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste , E. Abad

We study a class of reflected McKean-Vlasov diffusions over a convex domain with self-stabilizing coefficients. This includes coefficients that do not satisfy the classical Wasserstein Lipschitz condition. Further, the process is…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Daniel Adams , Gonçalo dos Reis , Romain Ravaille , William Salkeld , Julian Tugaut

We present a short overview on the strongest variational formulation for gradient flows of geodesically $\lambda$-convex functionals in metric spaces, with applications to diffusion equations in Wasserstein spaces of probability measures.…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-09-21 Sara Daneri , Giuseppe Savaré

Flow-based generative models enjoy certain advantages in computing the data generation and the likelihood, and have recently shown competitive empirical performance. Compared to the accumulating theoretical studies on related score-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-30 Xiuyuan Cheng , Jianfeng Lu , Yixin Tan , Yao Xie

In this paper we prove a large deviation principle for the empirical drift of a one-dimensional Brownian motion with self-repellence called the Edwards model. Our results extend earlier work in which a law of large numbers, respectively, a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. van der Hofstad , F. den Hollander , W. Koenig

On the flat torus in any dimension we prove existence of a solution to the TV Wasserstein gradient flow equation, only assuming that the initial density $\rho_0$ is bounded from below and above by strictly positive constants. This solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Kexin Lin , Filippo Santambrogio

We revisit the problem of diffusion in a driven system consisting of an inertial Brownian particle moving in a symmetric periodic potential and subjected to a symmetric time-periodic force. We reveal parameter domains in which diffusion is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-23 I. G. Marchenko , A. Zhiglo , V. Aksenova , V. Tkachenko , I. I. Marchenko , J. Łuczka , J. Spiechowicz

In this article, we study high-dimensional behavior of empirical spectral distributions $\{L_N(t), t\in[0,T]\}$ for a class of $N\times N$ symmetric/Hermitian random matrices, whose entries are generated from the solution of stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Jian Song , Jianfeng Yao , Wangjun Yuan

We study a singular-limit problem arising in the modelling of chemical reactions. At finite {\epsilon} > 0, the system is described by a Fokker-Planck convection-diffusion equation with a double-well convection potential. This potential is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Steffen Arnrich , Alexander Mielke , Mark A. Peletier , Giuseppe Savaré , Marco Veneroni

In 2000, Cohn, Kenyon and Propp studied uniformly random perfect matchings of large induced subgraphs of $\mathbb Z^2$ (a.k.a. dimer configurations or domino tilings) and developed a large deviation theory for the associated height…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Nishant Chandgotia , Scott Sheffield , Catherine Wolfram

In this paper, a generalized Brownian motion model has been applied to describe the relative particle dispersion problem in more realistic turbulent flows. The fluctuating pressure forces acting on a fluid particle are taken to be a colored…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-08-07 Bhimsen Shivamoggi

We investigate large deviation properties of the maximum likelihood drift parameter estimator for Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process driven by mixed fractional Brownian motion.

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-14 Dmytro Marushkevych

We revisit the problem of the overdamped (large friction) limit of the Brownian dynamics in an inhomogeneous medium characterized by a position-dependent friction coefficient and a multiplicative noise (local temperature) in one space…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Xavier Durang , Chulan Kwon , Hyunggyu Park

We study the JKO scheme for the total variation, characterize the optimizers, prove some of their qualitative properties (in particular a form of maximum principle and in some cases, a minimum principle as well). Finally, we establish a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Guillaume Carlier , Clarice Poon

Many studies have been conducted on flows of probability measures, often in terms of gradient flows. We utilize a generalized notion of derivatives with respect to time to model the instantaneous evolution of empirically observed…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-16 Yaqing Chen , Hans-Georg Müller