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In this paper, we investigate the problem of source recovery in a dynamical system utilizing space-time samples. This is a specific issue within the broader field of dynamical sampling, which involves collecting samples from solutions to a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Akram Aldroubi , Rocio Diaz Martin , Ivan Medri

This book presents the core principles that have guided the development of diffusion models, tracing their origins and showing how diverse formulations arise from shared mathematical ideas. Diffusion modeling starts by defining a forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yang Song , Dongjun Kim , Yuki Mitsufuji , Stefano Ermon

The physical limit with which a cell senses external ligand concentration corresponds to the perfect absorber, where all ligand particles are absorbed and overcounting of same ligand particles does not occur. Here we analyze how the lateral…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2015-11-06 Gerardo Aquino , Robert G. Endres

Metastatic cancer cells detect the direction of lymphatic flow by self-communication: they secrete and detect a chemical which, due to the flow, returns to the cell surface anisotropically. The secretion rate is low, meaning detection noise…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 Sean Fancher , Michael Vennettilli , Nicholas Hilgert , Andrew Mugler

Spatially resolving two incoherent point sources whose separation is well below the diffraction limit dictated by classical optics has recently been shown possible using techniques that decompose the incoming radiation into orthogonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 J. O. de Almeida , J. Kołodyński , C. Hirche , M. Lewenstein , M. Skotiniotis

Diffusion models have emerged from various theoretical and methodological perspectives, each offering unique insights into their underlying principles. In this work, we provide an overview of the most prominent approaches, drawing attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Solveig Klepper

A general topic of current interest is the analysis of diffusion problems in singularly perturbed domains with small interior targets or traps (the narrow capture problem). One major application is to intracellular diffusion, where the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-13 Paul C. Bressloff

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performance in various generation tasks. However, their theoretical foundations fall far behind. This paper studies score approximation, estimation, and distribution recovery of diffusion models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Minshuo Chen , Kaixuan Huang , Tuo Zhao , Mengdi Wang

This paper is devoted to the inverse problem of recovering the unknown distributed flux on an inaccessible part of boundary using measurement data on the accessible part. We establish and verify a variational source condition for this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 De-Han Chen , Yousept Irwin , Jun Zou

We study the effects of introducing a feedback channel in the erasure source-broadcast problem for the case of three receivers. In our problem formulation, we wish to transmit a binary source to three users over the erasure broadcast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Louis Tan , Kaveh Mahdaviani , Ashish Khisti Member

Cellular decision-making based on information received from the external environment is frequently initiated by transmembrane receptors. These receptors are known to propagate such information by triggering a series of irreversible,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Samuel L. Foley , Margaret E. Johnson

In the reconstruction process of sound waves in a 3D stratified waveguide, a key technique is to effectively reduce the huge computational demand. In this work, we propose an efficient and simple multilevel reconstruction method to help…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Keji Liu , Yongzhi Xu , Jun Zou

Molecular conformation generation, a critical aspect of computational chemistry, involves producing the three-dimensional conformer geometry for a given molecule. Generating molecular conformation via diffusion requires learning to reverse…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Zihan Zhou , Ruiying Liu , Chaolong Ying , Ruimao Zhang , Tianshu Yu

Generating molecules that bind to specific proteins is an important but challenging task in drug discovery. Previous works usually generate atoms in an auto-regressive way, where element types and 3D coordinates of atoms are generated one…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-16 Haitao Lin , Yufei Huang , Odin Zhang , Siqi Ma , Meng Liu , Xuanjing Li , Lirong Wu , Jishui Wang , Tingjun Hou , Stan Z. Li

Molecular communication (MC), one of the emerging techniques in the field of communication, is entering a new phase following several decades of foundational research. Recently, attention has shifted toward MC in liquid media, particularly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yun-Feng Lo , Changmin Lee , Chan-Byoung Chae

We consider the mean time to absorption by an absorbing target of a diffusive particle with the addition of a process whereby the particle is reset to its initial position with rate $r$. We consider several generalisations of the model of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-24 Martin R. Evans , Satya N. Majumdar

The purpose of this article is to investigate the emergence of cross-diffusion in the time evolution of two slow-fast species in competition. A class of triangular cross-diffusion system is obtained as the singular limit of a fast…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Elisabetta Brocchieri , Lucilla Corrias

From nutrient uptake, to chemoreception, to synaptic transmission, many systems in cell biology depend on molecules diffusing and binding to membrane receptors. Mathematical analysis of such systems often neglects the fact that receptors…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-16 Gregory Handy , Sean D Lawley

Accurate modeling of ultrasound wave propagation is essential for high-fidelity simulation and imaging in ultrasonic testing. A primary challenge lies in characterizing the excitation source, particularly for transducers with large…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Tim Bürchner , Simon Schmid , Ernst Rank , Stefan Kollmannsberger , Andreas Fichtner

We consider the source-channel separation architecture for lossy source coding in communication networks. It is shown that the separation approach is optimal in two general scenarios, and is approximately optimal in a third scenario. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-04 Chao Tian , Jun Chen , Suhas Diggavi , Shlomo Shamai