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Rectification and diffusion of non-interacting self-propelled particles is numerically investigated in a two-dimensional corrugated channel. From numerical simulations, we obtain the average velocity and the effective diffusion coefficient.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-29 Bao-quan Ai , Qiu-yan Chen , Ya-feng He , Feng-guo Li , Wei-rong Zhong

In this work, we derive particle schemes, based on micro-macro decomposition, for linear kinetic equations in the diffusion limit. Due to the particle approximation of the micro part, a splitting between the transport and the collision part…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Anaïs Crestetto , Nicolas Crouseilles , Mohammed Lemou

Linear diffusion processes serve as canonical continuous-time models for dynamic decision-making under uncertainty. These systems evolve according to drift matrices that specify the instantaneous rates of change in the expected system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mohamad Kazem Shirani Faradonbeh , Sadegh Shirani , Mohsen Bayati

Particle tracking velocimetry in 3D is becoming an increasingly important imaging tool in the study of fluid dynamics, combustion as well as plasmas. We introduce a dynamic discrete tomography algorithm for reconstructing particle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-01-23 Andreas Alpers , Peter Gritzmann , Dmitry Moseev , Mirko Salewski

We describe a statistical method to avoid biased estimation of the content of different particle species. We consider the case when the particle identification information strongly depends on some kinematical variables, whose distributions…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-06-16 Massimo Casarsa , Pierluigi Catastini , Giovanni Punzi , Luciano Ristori

Despite significant advances in particle imaging technologies over the past two decades, few advances have been made in particle tracking, i.e. linking individual particle positions across time series data. The state-of-the-art tracking…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-25 Ella M. King , Zizhao Wang , David A. Weitz , Frans Spaepen , Michael P. Brenner

Significant advances have been made in the sampling efficiency of diffusion models and flow matching models, driven by Consistency Distillation (CD), which trains a student model to mimic the output of a teacher model at a later timestep.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yunpeng Liu , Boxiao Liu , Yi Zhang , Xingzhong Hou , Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Haihang You

Aims. Numerical test-particle simulations are a reliable and frequently used tool to test analytical transport theories and to predict mean-free paths. The comparison between solutions of the diffusion equation and the particle flux is used…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 R. C. Tautz , J. Bolte , A. Shalchi

The pitch-angle diffusion coefficient quantifies the effect of pitch-angle scattering on charged particles propagating through turbulent magnetic fields and is a key ingredient in understanding the diffusion of these particles along the…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 J. P. van den Berg , P. L. Els , N. E. Engelbrecht

In this paper, an alternative approximation to the innovation method is introduced for the parameter estimation of diffusion processes from partial and noisy observations. This is based on a convergent approximation to the first two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-19 J. C. Jimenez

We develop a diffusion approximation for systems subject to fast random resetting by small amplitudes. Equivalently, this describes systems with frequent but small catastrophes. We demonstrate the validity of the approximation by computing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-26 Tobias Galla

This paper proposes and analyzes a novel clustering algorithm that combines graph-based diffusion geometry with techniques based on density and mode estimation. The proposed method is suitable for data generated from mixtures of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-01 Mauro Maggioni , James M. Murphy

Denoising diffusion models have become ubiquitous for generative modeling. The core idea is to transport the data distribution to a Gaussian by using a diffusion. Approximate samples from the data distribution are then obtained by…

The problem of the time required for a diffusing molecule, within a large bounded domain, to first locate a small target is prevalent in biological modeling. Here we study this problem for a small spherical target. We develop uniform in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 Samuel A. Isaacson , Jay Newby

A two level model of a single molecule undergoing spectral diffusion dynamics and interacting with a sequence of two short laser pulses is investigated. Analytical solution for the probability of n=0,1,2 photon emission events for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Shikerman , E. Barkai

Diffusion models have marked a significant breakthrough in the synthesis of semantically coherent images. However, their extensive noise estimation networks and the iterative generation process limit their wider application, particularly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuzhe Yao , Feng Tian , Jun Chen , Haonan Lin , Guang Dai , Yong Liu , Jingdong Wang

This article is devoted to the detection of parameters in anomalous diffusion from a single passive measurement. More precisely, we consider the simultaneous identification of coefficients as well as a time-dependent source term appearing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Maolin Deng , Ali Feizmohammadi , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian

Estimating and disentangling epistemic uncertainty, uncertainty that is reducible with more training data, and aleatoric uncertainty, uncertainty that is inherent to the task at hand, is critically important when applying machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Matthew A. Chan , Maria J. Molina , Christopher A. Metzler

Training a diffusion model approximates a map from a data distribution $\rho$ to the optimal score function $s_t$ for that distribution. Can we differentiate this map? If we could, then we could predict how the score, and ultimately the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Christopher Scarvelis , Justin Solomon

We consider diffusion-controlled release of particles from $d$-dimensional radially-symmetric geometries. A quantity commonly used to characterise such diffusive processes is the proportion of particles remaining within the geometry over…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Luke P. Filippini , Matthew J. Simpson , Elliot J. Carr