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The diffusion strategy for distributed learning from streaming data employs local stochastic gradient updates along with exchange of iterates over neighborhoods. In Part I [2] of this work we established that agents cluster around a network…

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We study the problem of a target search by a Brownian particle subject to stochastic resetting to a pair of sites. The mean search time is minimized by an optimal resetting rate which does not vary smoothly, in contrast with the well-known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-28 Pedro Julián-Salgado , Leonardo Dagdug , Denis Boyer

In this paper, we consider the 1D wave equation where the spatial domain is a bounded interval. Assuming the initial conditions to be known, we are here interested in identifying an unknown source term, while we take the Neumann derivative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-06-30 Marianne Chapouly , Mazyar Mirrahimi

We consider n-dimensional deterministic flows obtained by perturbing a gradient flow. We assume that the gradient flow admits a stable curve of stationary points, and thus if the perturbation is not too large the perturbed flow also admits…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-05 Christophe Poquet

Diffusion-based models on continuous spaces have seen substantial recent progress through the mathematical framework of gradient flows, leveraging the Wasserstein-2 (${W}_2$) metric via the Jordan-Kinderlehrer-Otto (JKO) scheme. Despite the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Dario Rancati , Jan Maas , Francesco Locatello

We study a Brownian particle diffusing under a time-modulated stochastic resetting mechanism to a fixed position. The rate of resetting r(t) is a function of the time t since the last reset event. We derive a sufficient condition on r(t)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-18 Arnab Pal , Anupam Kundu , Martin R. Evans

In this paper, we study both the direct and inverse random source problems associated with the multi-term time-fractional diffusion-wave equation driven by a fractional Brownian motion. Regarding the direct problem, the well-posedness is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Xiaoli Feng , Qiang Yao , Peijun Li , Xu Wang

Recovering high-dimensional statistical structure from limited measurements is a fundamental challenge in hyperspectral imaging, where capturing full-resolution data is often infeasible due to sensor, bandwidth, or acquisition constraints.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Jonathan Monsalve , Kumar Vijay Mishra

In order to approximate the exit time of a one-dimensional diffusion process, we propose an algorithm based on a random walk. Such an algorithm was already introduced in both the Brownian context and in the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck context. Here…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Samuel Herrmann , Nicolas Massin

Spatial gradients of diffusible signalling molecules play crucial roles in controlling diverse cellular behaviour such as cell differentiation, tissue patterning and chemotaxis. In this paper, we report the design and testing of a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-12-15 Yasushi Saka , Murray MacPherson , Claudiu V. Giuraniuc

We propose a multi-frequency algorithm for imaging the trajectory of a moving point source from one and sparse far-field observation directions in the frequency domain. The starting and terminal time points of the moving source are both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Hongxia Guo , Guanghui Hu , Guanqiu Ma

In this work we investigate an inverse problem of recovering point sources and their time-dependent strengths from {a posteriori} partial internal measurements in a subdiffusion model which involves a Caputo fractional derivative in time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Kuang Huang , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian , Georges Sadaka , Zhi Zhou

We solve a model of sluggish stochastic motion in which a Brownian particle diffuses with a diffusion coefficient that decays algebraically with the distance to the origin, as $|x|^{-\alpha}$. Additionally, the particle resets with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-03 Denis Boyer , Satya N. Majumdar

Intracellular transport in living cells is often spatially inhomogeneous with an accelerated effective diffusion close to the cell membrane and a ballistic motion away from the centrosome due to active transport along actin filaments and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-22 Matthieu Mangeat , Heiko Rieger

An optical imager that exploits off-center image rotation to encode both the lateral and depth coordinates of point sources in a single snapshot can perform 3D localization and tracking of space debris. When actively illuminated, unresolved…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-24 Chao Wang , Robert Plemmons , Sudhakar Prasad , Raymond Chan , Mila Nikolova

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable success in modeling large-scale data distributions. However, many downstream tasks require guiding the generated content based on specific differentiable metrics, typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Hongkun Dou , Zeyu Li , Xingyu Jiang , Hongjue Li , Lijun Yang , Wen Yao , Yue Deng

In nature, estimating the location of a molecule source in turbulent airflow is a central, and yet highly challenging problem for mate search and foraging. Recently, it has also received increasing attention in synthetic molecular…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Bastian Heinlein , Timo Jakumeit , Robert Schober , Maximilian Schäfer , Vahid Jamali

A common challenge in the natural sciences is to disentangle distinct, unknown sources from observations. Examples of this source separation task include deblending galaxies in a crowded field, distinguishing the activity of individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Sebastian Wagner-Carena , Aizhan Akhmetzhanova , Sydney Erickson

We study the Brownian motion of a particle in a bounded circular 2-dimensional domain, in search for a stationary target on the boundary of the domain. The process switches between two modes: one where it performs a two-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-13 Abhinava Chatterjee , Christos Christou , Andreas Schadschneider

Sampling from learned high-dimensional distributions is a foundational computational problem. We introduce U-turn chains: Markov chains obtained by iterating short forward-backward steps of a diffusion model, in which each step proposes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Hyunmo Kang , Noam Itzhak Levi , Corinna Elena Wegner , Daniel J. Korchinski , Matthieu Wyart