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We study the quantitative convergence of Wasserstein gradient flows of Kernel Mean Discrepancy (KMD) (also known as Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD)) functionals. Our setting covers in particular the training dynamics of shallow neural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Lénaïc Chizat , Maria Colombo , Roberto Colombo , Xavier Fernández-Real

This paper is a contribution to semiclassical analysis for abstract Schr\"odinger type operators on locally compact spaces: Let $X$ be a metrizable seperable locally compact space, let $\mu$ be a Radon measure on $X$ with a full support.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Batu Güneysu

In this paper, we establish the uniqueness of heat flow of harmonic maps into (N, h) that have sufficiently small renormalized energies, provided that N is either a unit sphere $S^{k-1}$ or a compact Riemannian homogeneous manifold without…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-11 Tao Huang , Changyou Wang

We provide attainable analytical tools to estimate the error of flow-based generative models under the Wasserstein metric and to establish the optimal sampling iteration complexity bound with respect to dimension as $O(\sqrt{d})$. We show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiangjun Meng , Zhongjian Wang

We study first-order optimality conditions for constrained optimization in the Wasserstein space, whereby one seeks to minimize a real-valued function over the space of probability measures endowed with the Wasserstein distance. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Nicolas Lanzetti , Saverio Bolognani , Florian Dörfler

The squared Wasserstein distance is a natural quantity to compare probability distributions in a non-parametric setting. This quantity is usually estimated with the plug-in estimator, defined via a discrete optimal transport problem which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Lenaic Chizat , Pierre Roussillon , Flavien Léger , François-Xavier Vialard , Gabriel Peyré

We extend the celebrated theorem of Kellogg for conformal mappings to the minimizers of Dirichlet energy. Namely we prove that a diffeomorphic minimiser of Dirichlet energy of Sobolev mappings between double connected domains $D$ and…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-03-23 David Kalaj , Bernhard Lamel

We settle the issue of well-posedness for the Dirichlet problem for a higher order elliptic system ${\mathcal L}(x,D_x)$ with complex-valued, bounded, measurable coefficients in a Lipschitz domain $\Omega$, with boundary data in Besov…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Maz'ya , Marius Mitrea , Tatyana Shaposhnikova

The classical (overdamped) Langevin dynamics provide a natural algorithm for sampling from its invariant measure, which uniquely minimizes an energy functional over the space of probability measures, and which concentrates around the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Giovanni Conforti , Daniel Lacker , Soumik Pal

Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ be an open set, not necessarily connected, with an $n$-dimensional uniformly rectifiable boundary. We show that $\partial\Omega$ may be approximated in a "Big Pieces" sense by boundaries of chord-arc…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Steve Hofmann , José María Martell

Dirichlet Process mixture models (DPMM) in combination with Gaussian kernels have been an important modeling tool for numerous data domains arising from biological, physical, and social sciences. However, this versatility in applications…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Aritra Guha , Nhat Ho , XuanLong Nguyen

We introduce a general class of transport distances ${\rm WB}_{\Lambda}$ over the space of positive semi-definite matrix-valued Radon measures $\mathcal{M}(\Omega,\mathbb{S}_+^n)$, called the weighted Wasserstein-Bures distance. Such a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Bowen Li , Jun Zou

This paper is devoted to spherical measures and point configurations optimizing three-point energies. Our main goal is to extend the classic optimization problems based on pairs of distances between points to the context of three-point…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Dmitriy Bilyk , Damir Ferizović , Alexey Glazyrin , Ryan Matzke , Josiah Park , Oleksandr Vlasiuk

We observe that local embedding problems for certain Hardy and Bergman spaces of Dirichlet series are equivalent to boundedness of a class of composition operators. Following this, we perform a careful study of such composition operators…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Frédéric Bayart , Ole Fredrik Brevig

We prove that the discrete harmonic function corresponding to smooth Dirichlet boundary conditions on orthodiagonal maps, that is, plane graphs having quadrilateral faces with orthogonal diagonals, converges to its continuous counterpart as…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Ori Gurel-Gurevich , Daniel C. Jerison , Asaf Nachmias

Optimal Transport (OT) has attracted significant interest in the machine learning community, not only for its ability to define meaningful distances between probability distributions -- such as the Wasserstein distance -- but also for its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Laetitia Chapel , Romain Tavenard , Samuel Vaiter

We introduce the observable Wasserstein distance, a framework for deriving lower bounds on the Wasserstein distance between probability measures on Polish metric spaces, designed to bypass the computational intractability of exact optimal…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Edivaldo Lopes dos Santos , Leandro Vicente Mauri , Washington Mio , Tom Needham

The Wasserstein metric or earth mover's distance (EMD) is a useful tool in statistics, machine learning and computer science with many applications to biological or medical imaging, among others. Especially in the light of increasingly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-26 Jörn Schrieber , Dominic Schuhmacher , Carsten Gottschlich

In the framework of a strictly local regular Dirichlet space ${\bf X}$ we introduce the subspaces $PW_{\omega},\>\>\omega>0,$ of Paley-Wiener functions of bandwidth $\omega$. It is shown that every function in $PW_{\omega},\>\>\omega>0,$ is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Isaac Z. Pesenson

Let $\Omega=\widetilde{\Omega}\setminus \overline{D}$ where $\widetilde{\Omega}$ is a bounded domain with connected complement in $\mathbb C^n$ (or more generally in a Stein manifold) and $D$ is relatively compact open subset of…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2017-01-26 Siqi Fu , Christine Laurent-Thiébaut , Mei-Chi Shaw