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We demonstrate the possibility of a turbulent flow of electrons in graphene in the hydrodynamic region, by calculating the corresponding turbulent probability density function. This is used to calculate the contribution of the turbulent…

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Gravity currents are a ubiquitous density driven flow occurring in both the natural environment and in industry. They include: seafloor turbidity currents, primary vectors of sediment, nutrient and pollutant transport; cold fronts; and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-28 Edward W. G. Skevington , Robert M. Dorrell

Optimal experimental design (OED) aims to choose the observations in an experiment to be as informative as possible, according to certain statistical criteria. In the linear case (when the observations depend linearly on the unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Ruhui Jin , Martin Guerra , Qin Li , Stephen Wright

We study the pressure of the "edge-triangle model", which is equivalent to the cumulant generating function of triangles in the Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graph. By analyzing finite graphs of increasing volume, as well as the graphon…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-11 Cristian Giardinà , Claudio Giberti , Elena Magnanini

We define notions of local topological convergence and local geometric convergence for embedded graphs in $\mathbb{R}^n,$ and study their properties. The former is related to Benjamini-Schramm convergence, and the latter to weak convergence…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Benjamin Schweinhart

We present an algebraic approach to the watershed adapted to edge or node weighted graphs. Starting with the flooding adjunction, we introduce the flooding graphs, for which node and edge weights may be deduced one from the other. Each node…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Fernand Meyer

This paper is devoted to an interacting particle system that provides probabilistic interpretation of the wave equation on graphs. A Feynman-Kac-type formula is established, connecting the expectation of the process with the wave equation…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Kaizheng Wang

We consider point clouds obtained as random samples of a measure on a Euclidean domain. A graph representing the point cloud is obtained by assigning weights to edges based on the distance between the points they connect. Our goal is to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Nicolás García Trillos , Dejan Slepčev

Graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve remarkable performance in graph machine learning tasks but can be hard to train on large-graph data, where their learning dynamics are not well understood. We investigate the training dynamics of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Sanjukta Krishnagopal , Luana Ruiz

We present a new angle on the expressive power of graph neural networks (GNNs) by studying how the predictions of real-valued GNN classifiers, such as those classifying graphs probabilistically, evolve as we apply them on larger graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Sam Adam-Day , Michael Benedikt , İsmail İlkan Ceylan , Ben Finkelshtein

In this work, we show that a family of non-linear mean-field equations on discrete spaces can be viewed as a gradient flow of a natural free energy functional with respect to a certain metric structure we make explicit. We also prove that…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Matthias Erbar , Max Fathi , Vaios Laschos , André Schlichting

Wasserstein gradient flows provide a powerful means of understanding and solving many diffusion equations. Specifically, Fokker-Planck equations, which model the diffusion of probability measures, can be understood as gradient descent over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Petr Mokrov , Alexander Korotin , Lingxiao Li , Aude Genevay , Justin Solomon , Evgeny Burnaev

The behavior of the curve shortening flow has been extensively studied. Gage, Hamilton, and Grayson proved that, under the curve shortening flow, an embedded closed curve in the Euclidean plane becomes convex after a finite time and then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Naotoshi Fujihara

Gradient extremals are loci along which the gradient is an eigenvector of the Hessian. These objects provide a natural geometric framework connecting several notions, notably valleys and talwegs, which we analyze from a variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Pascal Bégout , Jérôme Bolte , Thomas Mariotti , Francisco Silva

Variational inference, such as the mean-field (MF) approximation, requires certain conjugacy structures for efficient computation. These can impose unnecessary restrictions on the viable prior distribution family and further constraints on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Rentian Yao , Yun Yang

We study models of weighted exponential random graphs in the large network limit. These models have recently been proposed to model weighted network data arising from a host of applications including socio-econometric data such as migration…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Shankar Bhamidi , Suman Chakraborty , Skyler Cranmer , Bruce Desmarais

Particles moving inside a fluid near, and interacting with, invariant manifolds is a common phenomenon in a wide variety of applications. One elementary question is whether we can determine once a particle has entered a neighbourhood of an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-12-24 Christian Kuehn , Francesco Romano , Hendrik C. Kuhlmann

We introduce Graph Neural Processes (GNP), inspired by the recent work in conditional and latent neural processes. A Graph Neural Process is defined as a Conditional Neural Process that operates on arbitrary graph data. It takes features of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Andrew Carr , David Wingate

On a connected finite graph, we propose an evolution of weights including Ollivier's Ricci flow as a special case. During the evolution process, on each edge, the speed of change of weight is exactly the difference between the Wasserstein…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang

We study the Wasserstein Hamiltonian flow with a common noise on the density manifold of a finite graph. Under the framework of stochastic variational principle, we first develop the formulation of stochastic Wasserstein Hamiltonian flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Jianbo Cui , Shu Liu , Haomin Zhou