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We investigate properties of some extensions of a class of Fourier-based probability metrics, originally introduced to study convergence to equilibrium for the solution to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation. At difference with the…

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We derive a relation between the dissipation in a stochastic dynamics and the Wasserstein distance. We show that the minimal amount of dissipation required to transform an initial state to a final state during a diffusion process is given…

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We propose a fully discrete variational scheme for nonlinear evolution equations with gradient flow structure on the space of finite Radon measures on an interval with respect to a generalized version of the Wasserstein distance with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Jonathan Zinsl , Daniel Matthes

We introduce a new version of the KL-divergence for Gaussian distributions which is based on Wasserstein geometry and referred to as WKL-divergence. We show that this version is consistent with the geometry of the sample space ${\Bbb R}^n$.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Adwait Datar , Nihat Ay

We study fast and reliable generative transport for the 3D KS (Keller-Segel) and KPP (Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov) equations in the presence of fluid flows with the goal to approximate the map between initial and terminal distributions…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Zhenda Shen , Zhongjian Wang , Jack Xin , Zhiwen Zhang

We address the problem of efficiently computing Wasserstein distances for multiple pairs of distributions drawn from a meta-distribution. To this end, we propose a fast estimation method based on regressing Wasserstein distance on sliced…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-04 Khai Nguyen , Hai Nguyen , Nhat Ho

For a Markov process associated with a diffusion type Dirichlet form an upper bound is shown for the law of the finite dimensional distributions of the process. Under some more assumptions on the underlaying space this is also shown for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-07-28 Ann-Kathrin Jarecki

We measure hydrodynamic interactions between colloidal particles confined in a thin sheet of fluid. The reduced dimensionality, compared to a bulk fluid, increases dramatically the range of couplings. Using optical tweezers we force a two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Di Leonardo , S. Keen , F. Ianni , J. Leach , M. Padgett , G. Ruocco

We consider a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation governing the evolution of the density of interacting and diffusive matter in the space of positions and velocities. We use a probabilistic interpretation to obtain convergence towards equilibrium…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-19 Francois Bolley , Arnaud Guillin , Florent Malrieu

Variational Inference approximates an unnormalized distribution via the minimization of Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. Although this divergence is efficient for computation and has been widely used in applications, it suffers from some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-28 Mingxuan Yi , Song Liu

We consider the mathematical analysis and numerical approximation of a system of nonlinear partial differential equations that arises in models that have relevance to steady isochoric flows of colloidal suspensions. The symmetric velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Andrea Bonito , Vivette Girault , Diane Guignard , Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal , Endre Süli

Wasserstein distributionally robust control (WDRC) is an effective method for addressing inaccurate distribution information about disturbances in stochastic systems. It provides various salient features, such as an out-of-sample…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-08 Astghik Hakobyan , Insoon Yang

A procedure for model reduction of stochastic ordinary differential equations with additive noise was recently introduced in [Colangeli-Duong-Muntean, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2022], based on the Invariant…

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We reveal a precise mathematical framework about a new family of generative models which we call Gradient Flow Drifting. With this framework, we prove an equivalence between the recently proposed Drifting Model and the Wasserstein gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jiarui Cao , Zixuan Wei , Yuxin Liu

This article provides a case study for a recently introduced diffusion in the space of probability measures over the reals, namely rearranged stochastic heat, which solves a stochastic partial differential equation valued in the set of…

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This paper studies the approximation of invariant measures of McKean-Vlasov dynamics with non-degenerate additive noise. While prior findings necessitated a strong monotonicity condition on the McKean-Vlasov process, we expand these results…

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We study ``nonlocal diffusion equations'' of the form \[ \partial_{t}\frac{d\rho_{t}}{d\pi}(x)+\int_{X}\left(\frac{d\rho_{t}}{d\pi}(x)-\frac{d\rho_{t}}{d\pi}(y)\right)\eta(x,y)d\pi(y)=0\qquad(\dagger) \] where $X$ is either $\mathbb{R}^{d}$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Andrew Warren

A novel framework for density estimation under expectation constraints is proposed. The framework minimizes the Wasserstein distance between the estimated density and a prior, subject to the constraints that the expected value of a set of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-24 Yinan Hu , Esteban G. Tabak

We introduce an immersed high-order discontinuous Galerkin method for solving the compressible Navier-Stokes equations on non-boundary-fitted meshes. The flow equations are discretised with a mixed discontinuous Galerkin formulation and are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Hong Xiao , Eky Febrianto , Qiaoling Zhang , Fehmi Cirak

The Regularised Inertial Dean-Kawasaki model (RIDK) -- introduced by the authors and J. Zimmer in earlier works -- is a nonlinear stochastic PDE capturing fluctuations around the mean-field limit for large-scale particle systems in both…

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