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Accelerated gradient descent iterations are widely used in optimization. It is known that, in the continuous-time limit, these iterations converge to a second-order differential equation which we refer to as the accelerated gradient flow.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Mohammad Farazmand

We present a general technique for computing large deviations of nonlinear functions of independent Bernoulli random variables. The method is applied to compute the large deviation rate functions for subgraph counts in sparse random graphs.…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-02 Sourav Chatterjee , Amir Dembo

This paper investigates asymptotic behaviors of gradient descent algorithms (particularly accelerated gradient descent and stochastic gradient descent) in the context of stochastic optimization arising in statistics and machine learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-13 Yazhen Wang

In this paper, we develop a nonparametric system identification method for the nonlinear gradient-flow dynamics. In these systems, the vector field is the gradient field of a potential energy function. This fundamental fact about the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Mohammad Khosravi , Roy S. Smith

Sampling a target probability distribution with an unknown normalization constant is a fundamental challenge in computational science and engineering. Recent work shows that algorithms derived by considering gradient flows in the space of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Yifan Chen , Daniel Zhengyu Huang , Jiaoyang Huang , Sebastian Reich , Andrew M Stuart

We study a nonlinear pseudodifferential equation describing the dynamics of dislocations. The long time asymptotics of solutions is described by the self-similar profiles.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Piotr Biler , Grzegorz Karch , Regis Monneau

Deep learning frameworks leverage GPUs to perform massively-parallel computations over batches of many training examples efficiently. However, for certain tasks, one may be interested in performing per-example computations, for instance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Gaspar Rochette , Andre Manoel , Eric W. Tramel

In a recent work, Duong, Ghoul and Zaag determined the gradient profile for blowup solutions of standard semilinear heat equation with power nonlinearities in the (supposed to be) generic case. Their method refines the constructive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Yi C. Huang , Hatem Zaag

Recent advances in representation learning reveal that widely used objectives, such as contrastive and non-contrastive, implicitly perform spectral decomposition of a contextual kernel, induced by the relationship between inputs and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Burak Varıcı , Che-Ping Tsai , Ritabrata Ray , Nicholas M. Boffi , Pradeep Ravikumar

The goal of this paper is to develop numerical methods computing a few smallest elasticity transmission eigenvalues, which are of practical importance in inverse scattering theory. The problem is challenging since it is nonlinear,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Xia Ji , Peijun Li , Jiguang Sun

A class of linear degenerate elliptic equations inspired by nonlinear diffusions of image processing is considered. It is characterized by an interior degeneration of the diffusion coefficient. It is shown that no particularly natural,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Patrick Guidotti

A nonlinear parabolic equation of sixth order is analyzed. The equation arises as a reduction of a model from quantum statistical mechanics, and also as the gradient flow of a second-order information functional with respect to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Daniel Matthes , Eva-Maria Rott

In this work, we present a new approach to analyze the gradient flow for a positive semi-definite matrix denoising problem in an extensive-rank and high-dimensional regime. We use recent linear pencil techniques of random matrix theory to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-17 Antoine Bodin , Nicolas Macris

We propose a quasi-Grassmannian gradient flow model for eigenvalue problems of linear operators, aiming to efficiently address many eigenpairs. Our model inherently ensures asymptotic orthogonality: without the need for initial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Shengyue Wang , Aihui Zhou

The construction of loss functions presents a major challenge in data-driven modeling involving weak-form operators in PDEs and gradient flows, particularly due to the need to select test functions appropriately. We address this challenge…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-16 Yuan Gao , Quanjun Lang , Fei Lu

We introduce and implement a method to compute stationary states of nonlinear Schr\''odinger equations on metric graphs. Stationary states are obtained as local minimizers of the nonlinear Schr\''odinger energy at fixed mass. Our method is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Christophe Besse , Romain Duboscq , Stefan Le Coz

Situations of a functional predictor paired with a scalar response are increasingly encountered in data analysis. Predictors are often appropriately modeled as square integrable smooth random functions. Imposing minimal assumptions on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-08 Peter Hall , Hans-Georg Müller , Fang Yao

We derive the nonlinear equations satisfied by the coefficients of linear combinations that maximize their skewness when their variance is constrained to take a specific value. In order to numerically solve these nonlinear equations we…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-07-20 Rubén A. Pasmanter , Frank M. Selten

It has been recently shown that a large class of balanced graph cuts allows for an exact relaxation into a nonlinear eigenproblem. We review briefly some of these results and propose a family of algorithms to compute nonlinear eigenvectors…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-25 Leonardo Jost , Simon Setzer , Matthias Hein

We propose a new normalized Sobolev gradient flow for the Gross-Pitaevskii eigenvalue problem based on an energy inner product that depends on time through the density of the flow itself. The gradient flow is well-defined and converges to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Patrick Henning , Daniel Peterseim