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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Nathan D. King , Steven J. Ruuth

We recover the Riemannian gradient of a given function defined on interior points of a Riemannian submanifold in the Euclidean space based on a sample of function evaluations at points in the submanifold. This approach is based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Alvaro Almeida Gomez , Antônio J. Silva Neto , Jorge P. Zubelli

This paper investigates the formulation and implementation of Bayesian inverse problems to learn input parameters of partial differential equations (PDEs) defined on manifolds. Specifically, we study the inverse problem of determining the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-24 John Harlim , Daniel Sanz-Alonso , Ruiyi Yang

In this paper we present a method to treat interface jump conditions for constant coefficients Poisson problems that allows the use of standard "black box" solvers, without compromising accuracy. The basic idea of the new approach is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-09-30 Alexandre Noll Marques , Jean-Christophe Nave , Rodolfo Ruben Rosales

This article presents a novel approach to construct Intrinsic Gaussian Processes for regression on unknown manifolds with probabilistic metrics (GPUM) in point clouds. In many real world applications, one often encounters high dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-18 Mu Niu , Zhenwen Dai , Pokman Cheung , Yizhu Wang

This paper focuses on the numerical solution of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with Dirichlet and mixed boundary conditions, specifically addressing the challenges arising from irregular domains. Both finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Clarissa Astuto , Daniele Boffi , Giovanni Russo , Umberto Zerbinati

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on manifolds defined by randomly sampled point clouds is a challenging problem in scientific computing and has broad applications in various fields. In this paper, we develop a two-step…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Rongji Li , Haichuan Di , Shixiao Willing Jiang

Under a set of assumptions on a family of submanifolds $\subset {\mathbb R}^D$, we derive a series of geometric properties that remain valid after finite-dimensional and almost isometric Diffusion Maps (DM), including almost uniform…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Wenyu Bo , Marina Meilă

The solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex domains often presents a significant computational challenge by requiring the generation of fitted meshes. The Diffuse Domain Method (DDM) is an alternative which reformulates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Luke Benfield , Andreas Dedner

A mesh-free numerical method for solving linear elliptic PDE's using the local kernel theory that was developed for manifold learning is proposed. In particular, this novel approach exploits the local kernel theory which allows one to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Faheem Gilani , John Harlim

We propose a finite difference method to solve Maxwell's equations in time domain in the presence of a perfect electric conductor that impedes the propagations of electromagnetic waves. Our method is a modification of the existing approach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Hwi Lee , Yingjie Liu

In this paper, we extend the Generalized Moving Least-Squares (GMLS) method in two different ways to solve the vector-valued PDEs on unknown smooth 2D manifolds without boundaries embedded in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$, identified with randomly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Rongji Li , Qile Yan , Shixiao W. Jiang

This paper studies the problem of distributed Riemannian optimization over a network of agents whose cost functions are geodesically smooth but possibly geodesically non-convex. Extending a well-known distributed optimization strategy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Xiuheng Wang , Ricardo Borsoi , Cédric Richard , Ali H. Sayed

Diffusion models generate data by learning to reverse a forward process, where samples are progressively perturbed with Gaussian noise according to a predefined noise schedule. From a geometric perspective, each noise schedule corresponds…

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We study geometric stochastic differential equations (SDEs) and their approximations on Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we introduce a simple new construction of geometric SDEs, using which with bounded curvature. In particular, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Xiang Cheng , Jingzhao Zhang , Suvrit Sra

The discretization of elliptic PDEs leads to large coupled systems of equations. Domain decomposition methods (DDMs) are one approach to the solution of these systems, and can split the problem in a way that allows for parallel computing.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Ian May , Ronald D. Haynes , Steven J. Ruuth

We introduce a diffuse interface box method (DIBM) for the numerical approximation on complex geometries of elliptic problems with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We derive a priori $H^1$ and $L^2$ error estimates highlighting the r\^{o}le…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-27 G. Negrini , N. Parolini , M. Verani

The decentralized gradient descent (DGD) algorithm, and its sibling, diffusion, are workhorses in decentralized machine learning, distributed inference and estimation, and multi-agent coordination. We propose a novel, principled framework…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Erik G. Larsson , Nicolo Michelusi

We study modeling and inference with the Elliptical Gamma Distribution (EGD). We consider maximum likelihood (ML) estimation for EGD scatter matrices, a task for which we develop new fixed-point algorithms. Our algorithms are efficient and…

Computation · Statistics 2018-06-04 Reshad Hosseini , Suvrit Sra , Lucas Theis , Matthias Bethge

We present a generative learning framework for probabilistic sampling based on an extension of the Probabilistic Learning on Manifolds (PLoM) approach, which is designed to generate statistically consistent realizations of a random vector…

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