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Diffusion models, a family of generative models based on deep learning, have become increasingly prominent in cutting-edge machine learning research. With a distinguished performance in generating samples that resemble the observed data,…

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Considering the example of interacting Brownian particles we present a linear response derivation of the boundary condition for the corresponding hydrodynamic description (the diffusion equation). This requires us to identify a non-analytic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Fuchs , K. Kroy

Kernel mean embeddings are a popular tool that consists in representing probability measures by their infinite-dimensional mean embeddings in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. When the kernel is characteristic, mean embeddings can be used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Boris Muzellec , Francis Bach , Alessandro Rudi

Directional data consist of observations distributed on a (hyper)sphere, and appear in many applied fields, such as astronomy, ecology, and environmental science. This paper studies both statistical and computational problems of kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-18 Yikun Zhang , Yen-Chi Chen

Diffusion models are loosely modelled based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics, where \textit{diffusion} refers to particles flowing from high-concentration regions towards low-concentration regions. In statistics, the meaning is quite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Inga Strümke , Helge Langseth

We construct a class of one-dimensional diffusion processes on the particles of branching Brownian motion that are symmetric with respect to the limits of random martingale measures. These measures are associated with the extended extremal…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Sebastian Andres , Lisa Hartung

The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive study of some linear nonlocal diffusion problems in metric measure spaces. These include, for example, open subsets in $\mathbb{R}^N$, graphs, manifolds, multi-structures or some fractal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-18 Aníbal Rodríguez-Bernal , Silvia Sastre-Gómez

The critical dimension necessary for a flame to propagate in suspensions of fuel particles in oxidizer is studied analytically and numerically. Two types of models are considered: First, a continuum model, wherein the individual particulate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-23 Fredric Y. K. Lam , XiaoCheng Mi , Andrew J. Higgins

In this paper, we learn a diffusion model to generate 3D data on a scene-scale. Specifically, our model crafts a 3D scene consisting of multiple objects, while recent diffusion research has focused on a single object. To realize our goal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Jumin Lee , Woobin Im , Sebin Lee , Sung-Eui Yoon

Diffusion models are a class of probabilistic generative models that have been widely used as a prior for image processing tasks like text conditional generation and inpainting. We demonstrate that these models can be adapted to make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Marc Finzi , Anudhyan Boral , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Fei Sha , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

Manifold learning is a fundamental problem in machine learning with numerous applications. Most of the existing methods directly learn the low-dimensional embedding of the data in some high-dimensional space, and usually lack the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Yufan Zhou , Changyou Chen , Jinhui Xu

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable empirical success in the recent years and are considered one of the state-of-the-art generative models in modern AI. These models consist of a forward process, which gradually diffuses the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xingyu Xu , Ziyi Zhang , Yorie Nakahira , Guannan Qu , Yuejie Chi

Permutation invariance is fundamental in molecular point-cloud generation, yet most diffusion models enforce it indirectly via permutation-equivariant networks on an ordered space. We propose to model diffusion directly on the quotient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Gyeonghoon Ko , Juho Lee

We introduce, test and discuss a method for classifying and clustering data modeled as directed graphs. The idea is to start diffusion processes from any subset of a data collection, generating corresponding distributions for reaching…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-26 Jimmy Dubuisson , Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Andrea Agazzi

It is well known that short-time expansions of heat kernels correlate to formal high-frequency expansions of spectral densities. It is also well known that the latter expansions are generally not literally true beyond the first term.…

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The disturbance of the transmission of light through a diffusive medium due to an object hidden in it can be expressed in terms of an effective charge and dipole moment. In the mesoscopic regime, beyond the diffusion approximation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 David Lancaster , Theo Nieuwenhuizen

Fr\'echet means, conceptually appealing, generalize the Euclidean expectation to general metric spaces. We explore how well Fr\'echet means can be estimated from independent and identically distributed samples and uncover a fundamental…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Shayan Hundrieser , Benjamin Eltzner , Stephan F. Huckemann

Kernel mean embeddings -- integrals of a kernel with respect to a probability distribution -- are essential in Bayesian quadrature, but also widely used in other computational tools for numerical integration or for statistical inference…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-29 François-Xavier Briol , Alexandra Gessner , Toni Karvonen , Maren Mahsereci

Diffusion Models are probabilistic models that create realistic samples by simulating the diffusion process, gradually adding and removing noise from data. These models have gained popularity in domains such as image processing, speech…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Md Manjurul Ahsan , Shivakumar Raman , Yingtao Liu , Zahed Siddique

We introduce methods to bound the mean of a discrete distribution (or finite population) based on sample data, for random variables with a known set of possible values. In particular, the methods can be applied to categorical data with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Eric Bax , Frédéric Ouimet