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We present natural axisymmetric variants of schemes for curvature flows introduced earlier by the present authors and analyze them in detail. Although numerical methods for geometric flows have been used frequently in axisymmetric settings,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

Variational inference relies on flexible approximate posterior distributions. Normalizing flows provide a general recipe to construct flexible variational posteriors. We introduce Sylvester normalizing flows, which can be seen as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-21 Rianne van den Berg , Leonard Hasenclever , Jakub M. Tomczak , Max Welling

Ricci flow on two dimensional surfaces is far simpler than in the higher dimensional cases. This presents an opportunity to obtain much more detailed and comprehensive results. We review the basic facts about this flow, including the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-25 James Isenberg , Rafe Mazzeo , Natasa Sesum

Flow fields are often represented by a set of static arrows to illustrate scientific vulgarization, documentary film, meteorology, etc. This simple schematic representation lets an observer intuitively interpret the main properties of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2012-05-24 Bruno Jobard , Nicolas Ray , Dmitry Sokolov

Safe and reliable state estimation techniques are a critical component of next-generation robotic systems. Agents in such systems must be able to reason about the intentions and trajectories of other agents for safe and efficient motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Harrison Delecki , Liam A. Kruse , Marc R. Schlichting , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

In many fields of science, high-dimensional integration is required. Numerical methods have been developed to evaluate these complex integrals. We introduce the code i-flow, a python package that performs high-dimensional numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Christina Gao , Joshua Isaacson , Claudius Krause

First we give an introduction to the method of diagonalizing or block-diagonalizing continuously a Hamiltonian and explain how this procedure can be used to analyze the two-dimensional Hubbard model. Then we give a short survey on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Franz Wegner

We introduce a regularization method for mean curvature flow of a submanifold of arbitrary codimension in the Euclidean space, through higher order equations. We prove that the regularized problems converge to the mean curvature flow for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Bellettini , Carlo Mantegazza , Matteo Novaga

We propose an algorithm for taming Normalizing Flow models - changing the probability that the model will produce a specific image or image category. We focus on Normalizing Flows because they can calculate the exact generation probability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Shimon Malnick , Shai Avidan , Ohad Fried

Normalizing Flows (NF) are powerful likelihood-based generative models that are able to trade off between expressivity and tractability to model complex densities. A now well established research avenue leverages optimal transport (OT) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Guillaume Morel , Lucas Drumetz , Simon Benaïchouche , Nicolas Courty , François Rousseau

Normalizing flows, diffusion normalizing flows and variational autoencoders are powerful generative models. This chapter provides a unified framework to handle these approaches via Markov chains. We consider stochastic normalizing flows as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Paul Hagemann , Johannes Hertrich , Gabriele Steidl

We consider a two-dimensional, two-layer, incompressible, steady flow, with vorticity which is constant in each layer, in an infinite channel with rigid walls. The velocity is continuous across the interface, there is no surface tension or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Karsten Matthies , Jonathan Sewell , Miles H. Wheeler

This paper introduces a generative model equivariant to Euclidean symmetries: E(n) Equivariant Normalizing Flows (E-NFs). To construct E-NFs, we take the discriminative E(n) graph neural networks and integrate them as a differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Victor Garcia Satorras , Emiel Hoogeboom , Fabian B. Fuchs , Ingmar Posner , Max Welling

Normalizing flows are diffeomorphic, typically dimension-preserving, models trained using the likelihood of the model. We use the SurVAE framework to construct dimension reducing surjective flows via a new layer, known as the funnel. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Samuel Klein , John A. Raine , Sebastian Pina-Otey , Slava Voloshynovskiy , Tobias Golling

Normalizing flows model complex probability distributions by combining a base distribution with a series of bijective neural networks. State-of-the-art architectures rely on coupling and autoregressive transformations to lift up invertible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Antoine Wehenkel , Gilles Louppe

The so-called trivializing flows were proposed to speed up Hybrid Monte Carlo simulations, where the Wilson flow was used as an approximation of a trivializing map, a transformation of the gauge fields which trivializes the theory. It was…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-10-06 David Albandea , Luigi Del Debbio , Pilar Hernández , Richard Kenway , Joe Marsh Rossney , Alberto Ramos

Geometric flows have proved to be a powerful geometric analysis tool, perhaps most notably in the study of 3-manifold topology, the differentiable sphere theorem, Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections and canonical Kaehler metrics. In the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Jason D. Lotay

We study a normalized version of the second order renormalization group flow on closed Riemannian surfaces. We discuss some general properties of this flow and establish several basic formulas. In particular, we focus on surfaces with zero…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-25 Volker Branding

Learning unsupervised representations that are both semantically meaningful and stable across runs remains a central challenge in modern representation learning. We introduce entropy-ordered flows (EOFlows), a normalizing-flow framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Daniel Galperin , Ullrich Köthe

We present the first proof of principle that normalizing flows can accurately learn the Boltzmann distribution of the fermionic Hubbard model - a key framework for describing the electronic structure of graphene and related materials.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-23 Dominic Schuh , Janik Kreit , Evan Berkowitz , Lena Funcke , Thomas Luu , Kim A. Nicoli , Marcel Rodekamp