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Electron microscopy (EM) images exhibit anisotropic axial resolution due to the characteristics inherent to the imaging modality, presenting challenges in analysis and downstream tasks.In this paper, we propose a diffusion-model-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Kyungryun Lee , Won-Ki Jeong

This letter presents a non-parametric modeling approach for forecasting stochastic dynamical systems on low-dimensional manifolds. The key idea is to represent the discrete shift maps on a smooth basis which can be obtained by the diffusion…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-25 Tyrus Berry , Dimitrios Giannakis , John Harlim

Equation-free methods make possible an analysis of the evolution of a few coarse-grained or macroscopic quantities for a detailed and realistic model with a large number of fine-grained or microscopic variables, even though no equations are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Christian Marschler , Jan Sieber , Poul G. Hjorth , Jens Starke

We introduce a data-driven approach to building reduced dynamical models through manifold learning; the reduced latent space is discovered using Diffusion Maps (a manifold learning technique) on time series data. A second round of Diffusion…

We show how the Equation-Free approach for mutliscale computations can be exploited to extract, in a computational strict and systematic way the emergent dynamical attributes, from detailed large-scale microscopic stochastic models, of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Konstantinos G. Spiliotis , Constantinos I. Siettos

Addressing real-world optimization problems becomes particularly challenging when analytic objective functions or constraints are unavailable. While numerous studies have addressed the issue of unknown objectives, limited research has…

Sampling from a distribution $p(x) \propto e^{-\mathcal{E}(x)}$ known up to a normalising constant is an important and challenging problem in statistics. Recent years have seen the rise of a new family of amortised sampling algorithms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Arran Carter , Sanghyeok Choi , Kirill Tamogashev , Víctor Elvira , Esmeralda S. Whitammer

Learning to sample from intractable distributions over discrete sets without relying on corresponding training data is a central problem in a wide range of fields, including Combinatorial Optimization. Currently, popular deep learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Sebastian Sanokowski , Sepp Hochreiter , Sebastian Lehner

Solving inverse problems without any training involves using a pretrained generative model and making appropriate modifications to the generation process to avoid finetuning of the generative model. While recent methods have explored the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Ashwini Pokle , Matthew J. Muckley , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Brian Karrer

The description of complex physical phenomena often involves sophisticated models that rely on a large number of parameters, with many dimensions and scales. One practical way to simplify that kind of models is to discard some of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-11 Simone Rusconi , Christina Schenk , Razvan Ceuca , Arghir Zarnescu , Elena Akhmatskaya

Efficient planning in high-dimensional spaces, such as those involving deformable objects, requires computationally tractable yet sufficiently expressive dynamics models. This paper introduces a method that automatically generates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Alex LaGrassa , Zixuan Huang , Dmitry Berenson , Oliver Kroemer

Generative modeling within constrained sets is essential for scientific and engineering applications involving physical, geometric, or safety requirements (e.g., molecular generation, robotics). We present a unified framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Kijung Jeon , Michael Muehlebach , Molei Tao

Model-free data-driven computational mechanics replaces phenomenological constitutive functions by numerical simulations based on data sets of representative samples in stress-strain space. The distance of strain and stress pairs from the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Kerem Ciftci , Klaus Hackl

We introduce a convex optimization modeling framework that transforms a convex optimization problem expressed in a form natural and convenient for the user into an equivalent cone program in a way that preserves fast linear transforms in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Steven Diamond , Stephen Boyd

Drawing from the theory of stochastic differential equations, we introduce a novel sampling method for known distributions and a new algorithm for diffusion generative models with unknown distributions. Our approach is inspired by the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Xicheng Zhang

Equation-free approaches have been proposed in recent years for the computational study of multiscale phenomena in engineering problems where evolution equations for the coarse-grained, system-level behavior are not explicitly available. In…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yu Zou , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis , Roger G. Ghanem

This article considers the generative modeling of the (mixed) states of quantum systems, and an approach based on denoising diffusion model is proposed. The key contribution is an algorithmic innovation that respects the physical nature of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Yuchen Zhu , Tianrong Chen , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Xie Chen , Molei Tao

Recent advances in diffusion models have demonstrated their strong capabilities in generating high-fidelity samples from complex distributions through an iterative refinement process. Despite the empirical success of diffusion models in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Chaoyi Pan , Zeji Yi , Guanya Shi , Guannan Qu

We develop algorithms built around properties of the transfer operator and Koopman operator which 1) test for possible multiscale dynamics in a given dynamical system, 2) estimate the magnitude of the time-scale separation, and finally 3)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-12-24 Gary Froyland , Georg A. Gottwald , Andy Hammerlindl

Non-Markovian quantum state diffusion provides a wavefunction-based framework for modeling open quantum systems. In this work, we introduce a novel machine learning approach based on an operator construction algorithm. This algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Jiaji Zhang , Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , Lipeng Chen