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We propose fully discrete, implicit-in-time finite-volume schemes for a general family of non-linear and non-local Fokker-Planck equations with a gradient-flow structure, usually known as aggregation-diffusion equations, in any dimension.…

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This work explores different particle-based approaches to the simulation of one-dimensional fractional subdiffusion equations in unbounded domains. We rely on smooth particle approximations, and consider four methods for estimating the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-14 S. Allouch , M. Lucchesi , O. P. Le Maître , K. A. Mustapha , O. M. Knio

In this work, we investigate a variational formulation for a time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation which arises in the study of complex physical systems involving anomalously slow diffusion. The model involves a fractional-order Caputo…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Manh Hong Duong , Bangti Jin

This paper provides a formulation of the log-homotopy particle flow from the perspective of variational inference. We show that the transient density used to derive the particle flow follows a time-scaled trajectory of the Fisher-Rao…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-06 Yinzhuang Yi , Jorge Cortés , Nikolay Atanasov

We consider strongly coupled competitive elliptic systems of Gross-Pitaevskii type that arise in the study of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates, in general smooth bounded domains of $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 1$. As the coupling parameter…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Christos Sourdis

We establish a general semiparametric Bernstein-von Mises theorem for Bayesian nonparametric priors based on continuous observations in a periodic reversible multidimensional diffusion model. We consider a wide range of functionals…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Matteo Giordano , Kolyan Ray

We investigate diffusion-driven flows in a parallel-plate channel domain with linear density stratification, which arise from the combined influence of gravity and diffusion in density-stratified fluids. We compute the time-dependent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-13 Lingyun Ding , Richard M. McLaughlin

We derive the hydrodynamic limit of a kinetic equation where the interactions in velocity are modelled by a linear operator (Fokker-Planck or Linear Boltzmann) and the force in the Vlasov term is a stochastic process with high amplitude and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Arnaud Debussche , Julien Vovelle

An initial-boundary value problem for the time-fractional diffusion equation is discretized in space using continuous piecewise-linear finite elements on a polygonal domain with a re-entrant corner. Known error bounds for the case of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Kim Ngan Le , William McLean , Bishnu Lamichhane

In this article we prove the existence of Bernstein processes which we associate in a natural way with a class of linear parabolic initial-and final boundary value problems defined in bounded convex subsets of Euclidean space of arbitrary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Pierre-A. Vuillermot , Jean-C. Zambrini

We compute the ground state $u$ of the Gross--Pitaevskii equation (GPE) via Wasserstein gradient descent in diffeomorphism space. We represent the density $\rho=u^2$ as the push-forward of a fixed reference measure through a parameterized…

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We develop a fast and scalable numerical approach to solve Wasserstein gradient flows (WGFs), particularly suitable for high-dimensional cases. Our approach is to use general reduced-order models, like deep neural networks, to parameterize…

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To a complex projective structure $\Sigma$ on a surface, Thurston associates a locally convex pleated surface. We derive bounds on the geometry of both in terms of the norms $\|\phi_\Sigma\|_\infty$ and $\|\phi_\Sigma\|_2$ of the quadratic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Martin Bridgeman , Jeffrey Brock , Kenneth Bromberg

I present a first-principles theory of diffusion-limited aggregation in two dimensions. A renormalized mean-field approximation gives the form of the unstable manifold for branch competition, following the method of Halsey and Leibig [Phys.…

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We study an interacting particle system in $\mathbf{R}^d$ motivated by Stein variational gradient descent [Q. Liu and D. Wang, NIPS 2016], a deterministic algorithm for sampling from a given probability density with unknown normalization.…

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We derive the porous medium equation from an interacting particle system which belongs to the family of exclusion processes, with nearest neighbor exchanges. The particles follow a degenerate dynamics, in the sense that the jump rates can…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Oriane Blondel , Clément Cancès , Makiko Sasada , Marielle Simon

We derive explicit pointwise bounds for the spatial derivative $\left| \frac{\partial V}{\partial x} \right|$ of solutions to linear parabolic PDEs with Neumann boundary conditions. The bound is fully explicit in the sense that it depends…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-25 C Ciccarella

Particle-based variational inference offers a flexible way of approximating complex posterior distributions with a set of particles. In this paper we introduce a new particle-based variational inference method based on the theory of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-16 Luca Ambrogioni , Umut Guclu , Marcel van Gerven

We are concerned in this paper with the degenerate fractional diffusion advection equations posed in bounded domains. Due to a suitable formulation, we show the existence of weak entropy solutions for measurable and bounded initial and…

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