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We obtain an essential spectral gap for $n$-dimensional convex co-compact hyperbolic manifolds with the dimension $\delta$ of the limit set close to $(n-1)/2$. The size of the gap is expressed using the additive energy of stereographic…

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Diffusion models are recent state-of-the-art methods for image generation and likelihood estimation. In this work, we generalize continuous-time diffusion models to arbitrary Riemannian manifolds and derive a variational framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Chin-Wei Huang , Milad Aghajohari , Avishek Joey Bose , Prakash Panangaden , Aaron Courville

Overdamped Langevin dynamics are reversible stochastic differential equations which are commonly used to sample probability measures in high-dimensional spaces, such as the ones appearing in computational statistical physics and Bayesian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Tony Lelièvre , Grigorios A. Pavliotis , Geneviève Robin , Régis Santet , Gabriel Stoltz

This paper concerns the mathematical analyses of the diffusion model in machine learning. The drift term of the backward sampling process is represented as a conditional expectation involving the data distribution and the forward diffusion.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yubin Lu , Zhongjian Wang , Guillaume Bal

We consider the symmetric inclusion process on a general finite graph. Our main result establishes universal upper and lower bounds for the spectral gap of this interacting particle system in terms of the spectral gap of the random walk on…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Seonwoo Kim , Federico Sau

Learning the distribution of data on Riemannian manifolds is crucial for modeling data from non-Euclidean space, which is required by many applications in diverse scientific fields. Yet, existing generative models on manifolds suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jaehyeong Jo , Sung Ju Hwang

We introduce diffusion means as location statistics on manifold data spaces. A diffusion mean is defined as the starting point of an isotropic diffusion with a given diffusivity. They can therefore be defined on all spaces on which a…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-02 Pernille Hansen , Benjamin Eltzner , Stefan Sommer

This paper deals with spectral inequalities for one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operators with potentials bounded between two increasing functions (weights). The spectral inequality allows one to estimate the norm of a function with bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Eugenia Malinnikova , Jiuyi Zhu

We consider the super-critical contact process on $\mathbb{Z}^d$. It is known that measures which dominate the upper invariant measure $\mu$ converge exponentially fast to $\mu$. However, the same is not true for measures which are below…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Florian Völlering

The nonparametric estimation of the volatility and the drift coefficient of a scalar diffusion is studied when the process is observed at random time points. The constructed estimator generalizes the spectral method by Gobet, Hoffmann and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-12 Jakub Chorowski , Mathias Trabs

For Riemannian submersions, we establish some estimates for the spectrum of the total space in terms of the spectrum of the base space and the geometry of the fibers. In particular, for Riemannian submersions of complete manifolds with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Panagiotis Polymerakis

We present a method for bounding, and in some cases computing, the spectral gap for systems of many particles evolving under the influence of a random collision mechanism. In particular, the method yields the exact spectral gap in a model…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric A. Carlen , Maria C. Carvalho , Michael Loss

Estimating means on Riemannian manifolds is generally computationally expensive because the Riemannian distance function is not known in closed-form for most manifolds. To overcome this, we show that Riemannian diffusion means can be…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-02-19 Frederik Möbius Rygaard , Steen Markvorsen , Søren Hauberg , Stefan Sommer

Let $M$ be a connected compact Riemannian manifold possibly with a boundary, let $V\in C^2(M)$ such that $\mu(\d x):=\e^{V(x)}\d x$ is a probability measure, where $\d x$ is the volume measure, and let $L=\Delta+\nabla V$. The exact…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Feng-Yu Wang , Bingyao Wu

In this paper, we extend the sharp lower bounds of spectal gap, due to Chen- Wang [10, 11], Bakry-Qian [6] and Andrews-Clutterbuck [5], from smooth Riemaniannian manifolds to general metric measure spaces with Riemannian curvature-dimension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Yin Jiang , Hui-Chun Zhang

The spectral gap of local random quantum circuits is a fundamental property that determines how close the moments of the circuit's unitaries match those of a Haar random distribution. When studying spectral gaps, it is common to bound these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Andrew E. Deneris , Pablo Bermejo , Paolo Braccia , Lukasz Cincio , M. Cerezo

We first introduce a class of divergence measures between power spectral density matrices. These are derived by comparing the suitability of different models in the context of optimal prediction. Distances between "infinitesimally close"…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Xianhua Jiang , Lipeng Ning , Tryphon T. Georgiou

Introducing an interpolation method we derive lower bounds for the spectral gap for Brownian motion on general domains with sticky-reflecting boundary diffusion associated to the first nontrivial eigenvalue for the Laplace operator with…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Vitalii Konarovskyi , Victor Marx , Max von Renesse

This is the first part of our study of inertial manifolds for the system of 1D reaction-diffusion-advection equations which is devoted to the case of Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. Although this problem does not initially possess…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-02 Anna Kostianko , Sergey Zelik

For the purposes of abstract theory of signal propagation, a signal is a submanifold of a Riemannian manifold. We obtain energy inequalities, or upper bounds, lower bounds on energy in a number of specific cases, including parameter spaces…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Tatyana Barron , Spencer Kelly , Colin Poulton