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Diffusion is the result of repeated random scattering. It governs a wide range of phenomena from Brownian motion, to heat flow through window panes, neutron flux in fuel rods, dispersion of light in human tissue, and electronic conduction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Zhou Shi , Azriel Z. Genack

Recent advances in diffusion models have demonstrated their remarkable ability to capture complex image distributions, but the geometric properties of the learned data manifold remain poorly understood. We address this gap by introducing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Simone Azeglio , Arianna Di Bernardo

Point processes model the distribution of random point sets in mathematical spaces, such as spatial and temporal domains, with applications in fields like seismology, neuroscience, and economics. Existing statistical and machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 David Lüdke , Enric Rabasseda Raventós , Marcel Kollovieh , Stephan Günnemann

High-dimensional data are often assumed to lie on lower-dimensional manifolds. We study how to construct diffusion processes on this data manifold using only point cloud samples and without access to charts, projections, or other geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Victor Kawasaki-Borruat , Clara Grotehans , Pierre Vandergheynst , Adam Gosztolai

In this paper, we focus on the heat kernel estimates for diffusions and jump processes on metric measure spaces satisfying a weak chain condition, where the length of a nearly shortest $\varepsilon$-chain between two points $x,y$ is…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Guanhua Liu

Motivated by Leinster-Cobbold measures of biodiversity, the notion of the spread of a finite metric space is introduced. This is related to Leinster's magnitude of a metric space. Spread is generalized to infinite metric spaces equipped…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-07 Simon Willerton

We are interested in the threshold phenomena for propagation in nonlocal diffusion equations with some compactly supported initial data. In the so-called bistable and ignition cases, we provide the first quantitative estimates for such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Matthieu Alfaro , Arnaud Ducrot , Hao Kang

We consider graph diffusion processes constructed from finite i.i.d. samples drawn from an unknown manifold embedded in ambient Euclidean space, where the graph affinity is defined by an ambient Gaussian kernel matrix. We show that the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Xiuyuan Cheng , Nan Wu

Diffusion models are popular tools for generating new data samples, using a forward process that adds noise to data and a reverse process to denoise and produce samples. However, when the data distribution consists of n points, empirical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-05 Yang Lyu , Tan Minh Nguyen , Yuchun Qian , Xin T. Tong

This paper studies rescaled images, under $\exp^{-1}_{\mu}$, of the sample Fr\'{e}chet means of i.i.d. random variables $\{X_k\vert k\geq 1\}$ with Fr\'{e}chet mean $\mu$ on a Riemannian manifold. We show that, with appropriate scaling,…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-26 Huiling Le

Using simple kinematical arguments, we derive the Fokker-Planck equation for diffusion processes in curved spacetimes. In the case of Brownian motion, it coincides with Eckart's relativistic heat equation (albeit in a simpler form), and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Matteo Smerlak

We are studying the problem of estimating density in a wide range of metric spaces, including the Euclidean space, the sphere, the ball, and various Riemannian manifolds. Our framework involves a metric space with a doubling measure and a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Galatia Cleanthous , Athanasios G. Georgiadis , Philip A. White

We consider a collection of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ measured at $m$ times, which are encoded in an $n \times d \times m$ data tensor. Our objective is to define a single embedding of the $n$ points into Euclidean space which summarizes…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Nicholas F. Marshall , Matthew J. Hirn

In this paper, we study sharp two-sided heat kernel estimates for a large class of symmetric reflected diffusions with jumps on the closure of an inner uniform domain $D$ in a length metric space. The length metric is the intrinsic metric…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Zhen-Qing Chen , Panki Kim , Takashi Kumagai , Jian Wang

We study reflected jump diffusions on Ahlfors regular domains in general metric measure spaces. Under the condition that the Dirichlet form on the ambient space satisfies a capacity upper bound estimate, we construct an extension operator…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Shiping Cao , Zhen-Qing Chen

Classical diffusion in a random medium involves an exponential functional of Brownian motion. This functional also appears in the study of Brownian diffusion on a Riemann surface of constant negative curvature. We analyse in detail this…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Alain COMTET , Cecile MONTHUS

Various biological cells secrete diffusing chemical compounds into their environment for communication purposes. Secretion usually takes place over the cell membrane in a spatially heterogeneous manner. Mathematical models of these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Qiyao Peng , Sander C. Hille

This paper presents a simple tool for characterising the timescale for continuum diffusion processes through layered heterogeneous media. This mathematical problem is motivated by several practical applications such as heat transport in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-13 Elliot J. Carr

The concepts of spread and spread dimension of a metric space were introduced by Willerton in the context of quantifying biodiversity of ecosystems. This paper develops practical applications of spread dimension in the context of machine…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Kevin Dunne

We study a symmetric diffusion process on $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 2$, in divergence form in a stationary and ergodic random environment. The coefficients are assumed to be degenerate and unbounded but satisfy a moment condition. We derive…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Peter Taylor