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We prove the convergence of a modified Jordan--Kinderlehrer--Otto scheme to a solution to the Fokker--Planck equation in $\Omega \Subset \mathbb R^d$ with general -- strictly positive and temporally constant -- Dirichlet boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Filippo Quattrocchi

Flow Matching has recently emerged as a popular class of generative models for simulating a target distribution $\mu_1$ from samples drawn from a source distribution $\mu_0$. This framework relies on a fixed coupling between $\mu_0$ and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Le-Tuyet-Nhi Pham , Giovanni Conforti , Zhenjie Ren , Alain Durmus

Flow matching has emerged as a powerful framework for generative modeling through continuous normalizing flows. We investigate a potential topological constraint: when the prior distribution and target distribution have mismatched topology…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Congzhou M Sha

We consider the problem of online scheduling on a single machine in order to minimize weighted flow time. The existing algorithms for this problem (STOC '01, SODA '03, FOCS '18) all require exact knowledge of the processing time of each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Yossi Azar , Stefano Leonardi , Noam Touitou

We consider the problem of finding collision-free paths for curvature-constrained systems in the presence of obstacles while minimizing execution time. Specifically, we focus on the setting where a planar system can travel at some range of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Doron Pinsky , Petr Váňa , Jan Faigl , Oren Salzman

This paper considers a wireless link with randomly arriving data that is queued and served over a time-varying channel. It is known that any algorithm that comes within $\epsilon$ of the minimum average power required for queue stability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-19 Michael J. Neely

We consider the online problem of minimizing weighted flow-time on unrelated machines. Although much is known about this problem in the resource-augmentation setting, these results assume that jobs can be preempted. We give the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Anupam Gupta , Amit Kumar , Jason Li

Beckmann's problem in optimal transport minimizes the total squared flux in a continuous transport problem from a source to a target distribution. In this article, the regularity theory for solutions to Beckmann's problem in optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Hanno Gottschalk , Tobias J. Riedlinger

Finding the best way to schedule operations in a computation graph is a classical NP-hard problem which is central to compiler optimization. However, evaluating the goodness of a schedule on the target hardware can be very time-consuming.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-15 David W. Zhang , Corrado Rainone , Markus Peschl , Roberto Bondesan

We derive a deterministic, non-asymptotic upper bound on the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence of the flow-matching distribution approximation. In particular, if the $L_2$ flow-matching loss is bounded by $\epsilon^2 > 0$, then the KL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Maojiang Su , Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu , Sophia Pi , Han Liu

We show that a fluid-flow interpretation of Service Curve Earliest Deadline First (SCED) scheduling simplifies deadline derivations for this scheduler. By exploiting the recently reported isomorphism between min-plus and max-plus network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Jorg Liebeherr

Joint scheduling and routing of data flows with deadline constraints in communication networks has been attracting research interest. This type of problem distinguishes from conventional multicommodity flows due to the presence of the time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Ghafour Ahani , Pawel Wiatr , Di Yuan

We consider the problem of finding the value of a maximum flow over time in a network with uniform edge lengths where the edge capacities change at specific time instants. To solve this problem, we show how to construct a condensed version…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Shuchi Chawla , Kristin Sheridan

A fluctuation theorem relating the work to its optimal average work is presented. The function mediating the relation is increasing and convex, and depends on the switching time $\tau$, driving strength $\delta\lambda/\lambda_0$, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-02 Pierre Nazé

We consider computing optimal k-norm preemptive schedules of jobs that arrive over time. In particular, we show that computing the optimal k-norm of flow schedule, is strongly NP-hard for k in (0, 1) and integers k in (1, infinity). Further…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Cliff Stein

We study the problem of finding an $\epsilon$-fixed point of a contraction map $f:[0,1]^k\mapsto[0,1]^k$ under both the $\ell_\infty$-norm and the $\ell_1$-norm. For both norms, we give an algorithm with running time $O(\log^{\lceil…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Xi Chen , Yuhao Li , Mihalis Yannakakis

Non-reversible lifts reduce the relaxation time of reversible diffusions at most by a square root. For reversible diffusions on domains in Euclidean space, or, more generally, on a Riemannian manifold with boundary, non-reversible lifts are…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Andreas Eberle , Francis Lörler

We prove the $L_1$ in time and $B^{s+1}_{q,1}\times B^s_{q,1}$ in space maximal regularity for the Stokes equations in the viscous compressible fluid flows in domains in the $N$ dimensional Euclidean space $R^N$ whose boundary is $C^3$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Jou-Chun Kuo , Yoshihiro Shibata

This paper proposes an optimization-based task and motion planning framework, named "Logic Network Flow", to integrate signal temporal logic (STL) specifications into efficient mixed-binary linear programmings. In this framework, temporal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xuan Lin , Jiming Ren , Samuel Coogan , Ye Zhao

Most of the early input-queued switch research focused on establishing throughput optimality of the max-weight scheduling policy, with some recent research showing that max-weight scheduling is optimal with respect to total expected delay…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Yingdong Lu , Mark S. Squillante , Tonghoon Suk