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In this paper the optimal transport and the metamorphosis perspectives are combined. For a pair of given input images geodesic paths in the space of images are defined as minimizers of a resulting path energy. To this end, the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Jan Maas , Martin Rumpf , Carola Schönlieb , Stefan Simon

The full-dimensional (metric, Euclidean, least squares) multidimensional scaling stress loss function is combined with a quadratic external penalty function term. The trajectory of minimizers of stress for increasing values of the penalty…

Computation · Statistics 2024-07-24 Jan de Leeuw

The Euler Elastica (EE) model with surface curvature can generate artifact-free results compared with the traditional total variation regularization model in image processing. However, strong nonlinearity and singularity due to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Zhifang Liu , Baochen Sun , Xue-Cheng Tai , Qi Wang , Huibin Chang

We consider the minimization of an average distance functional defined on a two-dimensional domain $\Omega$ with an Euler elastica penalization associated with $\pd \Omega$, the boundary of $\Omega$. The average distance is given by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Qiang Du , Xin Yang Lu , Chong Wang

The paper contributes to the important and urgent problem to extend the physical theory of space-time in a Finsler-type way under the assumption that the isotropy of space is violated by a single geometrically distinguished spatial…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-12-09 G. S. Asanov

Optimal control of stochastic systems plays a central role in nonequilibrium physics, with applications in the study of biological molecular motors and the design of single-molecule experiments. While exact analytic solutions to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-07 Jordan R. Sawchuk , David A. Sivak

We study an obstacle problem for the length-penalized elastic bending energy for open planar curves pinned at the boundary. We first consider the case without length penalization and investigate the role of global minimizers among graph…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Marius Müller , Kensuke Yoshizawa

For an old problem of Euler's elastica we prove the novel global property that every planar elastica with non-constant monotone curvature is uniquely minimal subject to the clamped boundary condition. We also partly extend this unique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Tatsuya Miura , Glen Wheeler

The eikonal equation is utilized across a wide spectrum of science and engineering disciplines. In seismology, it regulates seismic wave traveltimes needed for applications like source localization, imaging, and inversion. Several numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Umair bin Waheed , Ehsan Haghighat , Tariq Alkhalifah , Chao Song , Qi Hao

A piecewise flat Finsler metric on a triangulated surface $M$ is a metric whose restriction to any triangle is a flat triangle in some Minkowski space with straight edges. One of the main purposes of this work is to study the properties of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Ming Xu , Shaoqiang Deng

Trajectory inference investigates how to interpolate paths between observed timepoints of dynamical systems, such as temporally resolved population distributions, with the goal of inferring trajectories at unseen times and better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Aaron Zweig , Mingxuan Zhang , David A. Knowles , Elham Azizi

In this paper, we introduce a generalized asymmetric fronts propagation model based on the geodesic distance maps and the Eikonal partial differential equations. One of the key ingredients for the computation of the geodesic distance map is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Da Chen , Laurent D. Cohen

Solutions of certain partial differential equations (PDEs) are often represented by the steepest descent curves of corresponding functionals. Minimizing movement scheme was developed in order to study such curves in metric spaces.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Min Sue Park , Cheolhyeong Kim , Hwijae Son , Hyung Ju Hwang

For a wide class of curvature energy functionals defined for planar curves under the fixed-length constraint, we obtain optimal necessary conditions for global and local minimizers. Our results extend Maddocks' and Sachkov's rigidity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Tatsuya Miura , Kensuke Yoshizawa

The study of arXiv:2502.01174 geometrization of classical fields in the 4d--Finsler space of MES (Model of Embedded Spaces) is continued. The model postulates a proper metric set of a distributed matter element and states that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-18 V. I. Noskov

Manifolds discovered by machine learning models provide a compact representation of the underlying data. Geodesics on these manifolds define locally length-minimising curves and provide a notion of distance, which are key for reduced-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Daniel Kelshaw , Luca Magri

What is the shortest path between two data points lying in a high-dimensional space? While the answer is trivial in Euclidean geometry, it becomes significantly more complex when the data lies on a curved manifold -- requiring a Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Louis Béthune , David Vigouroux , Yilun Du , Rufin VanRullen , Thomas Serre , Victor Boutin

We present a new family of min-max optimization algorithms that automatically exploit the geometry of the gradient data observed at earlier iterations to perform more informative extra-gradient steps in later ones. Thanks to this adaptation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Kimon Antonakopoulos , E. Veronica Belmega , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

A coarse-grained computational procedure based on the Finite Element Method is proposed to calculate the normal modes and mechanical response of proteins and their supramolecular assemblies. Motivated by the elastic network model, proteins…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Mark Bathe

We study harmonic map regression, a nonparametric estimator for manifold-valued responses, that penalizes the empirical Fr\'echet risk by the Dirichlet energy. By connecting penalized regression to the theory of harmonic maps, the estimator…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Xiaoyu Chen