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We propose a spatial discretization of the fourth-order nonlinear DLSS equation on the circle. Our choice of discretization is motivated by a novel gradient flow formulation with respect to a metric that generalizes martingale transport.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Daniel Matthes , Eva-Maria Rott , Giuseppe Savaré , André Schlichting

In this paper, we define a family of functionals generalizing the Yang-Mills-Higgs functional on a closed Riemannian manifold. Then we prove the short time existence of the corresponding gradient flow by a gauge fixing technique. The lack…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Pan Zhang

In this paper we give a description of the asymptotic behavior, as $\epsilon\to 0$, of the $\epsilon$-gradient flow in the finite dimensional case. Under very general assumptions we prove that it converges to an evolution obtained by…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Chiara Zanini

We propose a particle system of diffusion processes coupled through a chain-like network structure described by an infinite-dimensional, nonlinear stochastic differential equation of McKean-Vlasov type. It has both (i) a local chain…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Nils Detering , Jean-Pierre Fouque , Tomoyuki Ichiba

This work develops a mean-field analysis for the asymptotic behavior of deep BitNet-like architectures as smooth quantization parameters approach zero. We establish that empirical measures of latent weights converge weakly to solutions of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Dongwon Kim , Dongseok Lee

In this work we derive a class of geometric flow equations for metric-scalar systems. Thereafter, we construct them from some general string frame action by performing volume-preserving fields variations and writing down the associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-18 Davide De Biasio , Dieter Lust

In recent work [1] we uncovered intriguing connections between Otto's characterisation of diffusion as entropic gradient flow [16] on one hand and large-deviation principles describing the microscopic picture (Brownian motion) on the other.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Stefan Adams , Nicolas Dirr , Mark A. Peletier , Johannes Zimmer

The problem of deriving a gradient flow structure for the porous medium equation which is {\em thermodynamic}, in that it arises from the large deviations of some microscopic particle system, is studied. To this end, a rescaled zero-range…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Benjamin Gess , Daniel Heydecker

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

We study a flow of $G_2$ structures which induce the same Riemannian metric which is the negative gradient flow of an energy functional. We prove Shi-type estimates for the torsion tensor along the flow. We show that at a finite-time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-15 Shubham Dwivedi , Panagiotis Gianniotis , Spiro Karigiannis

We study the gradient-flow structure of a non-Newtonian thin film equation with power-law rheology. The equation is quasilinear, of fourth order and doubly-degenerate parabolic. By adding a singular potential to the natural Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Peter Gladbach , Jonas Jansen , Christina Lienstromberg

We propose a generalization of the gradient flow equation for quantum field theories with nonlinearly realized symmetry. Applying the equation to $\mathcal{N}=1$ $SU(N)$ super Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions, we construct a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-11-23 Sinya Aoki , Kengo Kikuchi , Tetsuya Onogi

In this paper, we develop a discretization for the non-linear coupled model of classical Darcy-Forchheimer flow in deformable porous media, an extension of the quasi-static Biot equations. The continuous model exhibits a generalized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Jakub Wiktor Both , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Florin Adrian Radu

We study geometric properties of the gradient flow for learning deep linear convolutional networks. For linear fully connected networks, it has been shown recently that the corresponding gradient flow on parameter space can be written as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 El Mehdi Achour , Kathlén Kohn , Holger Rauhut

We focus on a family of nonlinear continuity equations for the evolution of a non-negative density $\rho$ with a continuous and compactly supported nonlinear mobility $\mathrm{m}(\rho)$ not necessarily concave. The velocity field is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 José Antonio Carrillo , Alejandro Fernández-Jiménez , David Gómez-Castro

We construct a kinetic model for matter-radiation interactions whose hydrodynamic gradient expansion can be computed analytically up to infinite order in derivatives, in the fully nonlinear regime, and for arbitrary flows. The frequency…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-18 Lorenzo Gavassino

We develop a formalism to discuss the properties of GENERIC systems in terms of corresponding Hamiltonians that appear in the characterization of large-deviation limits. We demonstrate how the GENERIC structure naturally arises from a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Richard C. Kraaij , Alexandre Lazarescu , Christian Maes , Mark A. Peletier

We consider a general formulation of gradient flow evolution for problems whose natural framework is the one of metric spaces. The applications we deal with are concerned with the evolution of {\it capacitary measures} with respect to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Dorin Bucur , Giuseppe Buttazzo , Ulisse Stefanelli

We study the particle method to approximate the gradient flow on the $L^p$-Wasserstein space. This method relies on the discretization of the energy introduced by [3] via nonoverlapping balls centered at the particles and preserves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Rong Lei

Uncertainty propagation and filtering can be interpreted as gradient flows with respect to suitable metrics in the infinite dimensional manifold of probability density functions. Such a viewpoint has been put forth in recent literature, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Abhishek Halder , Tryphon T. Georgiou