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Ensemble Kalman Inversion (EKI) has been proposed as an efficient method for the approximate solution of Bayesian inverse problems with expensive forward models. However, when applied to the Bayesian inverse problem EKI is only exact in the…
We introduce a data-driven dynamic factor framework for modeling the joint evolution of high-dimensional covariates and responses without parametric assumptions. Standard factor models applied to covariates alone often lose explanatory…
We consider an electrodiffusion model that describes the intricate interplay of multiple ionic species with a two-dimensional, incompressible, viscous fluid subjected to stochastic additive noise. This system involves nonlocal nonlinear…
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Diffusion models (DMs) have proven to be effective in modeling high-dimensional distributions, leading to their widespread adoption for representing complex priors in Bayesian inverse problems (BIPs). However, current DM-based posterior…
The article presents a novel variational calculus to analyze the stability and the propagation of chaos properties of nonlinear and interacting diffusions. This differential methodology combines gradient flow estimates with backward…
We introduce a novel class of score-based diffusion processes that operate directly in the representation space of Lie groups. Leveraging the framework of Generalized Score Matching, we derive a class of Langevin dynamics that decomposes as…
We study the gradient flow structure and long-time behavior of Fokker-Planck equations (FPE) on infinite graphs, along with a Talagrand-type inequality in this setting. We begin by constructing an infinite-dimensional Hilbert manifold…
As an extension of our previous work in Sun et.al (2018) [41], we develop a discontinuous Galerkin method for solving cross-diffusion systems with a formal gradient flow structure. These systems are associated with non-increasing entropy…
We study the Langevin dynamics of a physical system with manifold structure $\mathcal{M}\subset\mathbb{R}^p$ based on collected sample points $\{\mathsf{x}_i\}_{i=1}^n \subset \mathcal{M}$ that probe the unknown manifold $\mathcal{M}$.…
Ensemble Kalman inversion (EKI) is a technique for the numerical solution of inverse problems. A great advantage of the EKI's ensemble approach is that derivatives are not required in its implementation. But theoretically speaking, EKI's…
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Ensemble Kalman methods were initially developed to solve nonlinear data assimilation problems in oceanography, but are now popular in applications far beyond their original use cases. Of particular interest is climate model calibration. As…
In this paper, we investigate the existence of solution for systems of Fokker-Planck equations coupled through a common nonlinear congestion. Two different kinds of congestion are considered: a porous media congestion or \textit{soft}…
Efficient Boltzmann-sampling using first-principles methods is challenging for extended systems due to the steep scaling of electronic structure methods with the system size. Stochastic approaches provide a gentler system-size dependency at…
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Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative tools with applications in computer vision and scientific machine learning (SciML), where they have been used to solve large-scale probabilistic inverse problems. Traditionally, these…