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We deal with strongly competing multispecies systems of Lotka-Volterra type with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. For a class of nonconvex domains composed by balls connected with thin corridors, we show the occurrence of pattern…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-12-06 Monica Conti , Veronica Felli

We study the exponential convergence to the stationary state for nonequilibrium Langevin dynamics, by a perturbative approach based on hypocoercive techniques developed for equilibrium Langevin dynamics. The Hamiltonian and overdamped…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-07-06 Alessandra Iacobucci , Stefano Olla , Gabriel Stoltz

Many problems in high-dimensional statistics and optimization involve minimization over nonconvex constraints-for instance, a rank constraint for a matrix estimation problem-but little is known about the theoretical properties of such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-20 Rina Foygel Barber , Wooseok Ha

We investigate the relevance of the conformal method by investigating stability issues for the Einstein-Lichnerowicz conformal constraint system in a nonlinear scalar-field setting. We prove the stability of the system with respect to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Bruno Premoselli

Inferring microbial community structure based on temporal metagenomics data is an important goal in microbiome studies. The deterministic generalized Lotka-Volterra differential (GLV) equations have been used to model the dynamics of…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-24 Libai Xu , Ximing Xu , Dehan Kong , Hong Gu , Toby Kenney

This papers deals with a construction and convergence analysis of a finite difference scheme for solving time-fractional porous medium equation. The governing equation exhibits both nonlocal and nonlinear behaviour making the numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-05 Łukasz Płociniczak

In this paper we study a second order dynamical system with variable coefficients in connection to the minimization problem of a smooth nonconvex function. The convergence of the trajectories generated by the dynamical system to a critical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Szilárd Csaba László

In this paper, we show that although the minimizers of cross-entropy and related classification losses are off at infinity, network weights learned by gradient flow converge in direction, with an immediate corollary that network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Ziwei Ji , Matus Telgarsky

We study a continuous-time dynamical system which arises as the limit of a broad class of nonlinearly preconditioned gradient methods. Under mild assumptions, we establish existence of global solutions and derive Lyapunov-based convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Konstantinos Oikonomidis , Alexander Bodard , Jan Quan , Panagiotis Patrinos

In this paper, we propose a globally convergent method for solving constrained nonlinear systems. The method combines an efficient Newton conditional gradient method with a derivative-free and nonmonotone linesearch strategy. The global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-06 M. L. N. Gonçalves , F. R. Oliveira

The Lotka-Volterra model reflects real ecological interactions where species compete for limited resources, potentially leading to coexistence, dominance of one species, or extinction of another. Comprehending the mechanisms governing these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Maicon Sonego , Enrique Zuazua

We present a lattice-based numerical method to describe the non equilibrium behavior of a simple fluid under non-uniform spatial conditions. The evolution equation for the one-particle phase-space distribution function is derived starting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Melchionna , U. Marini Bettolo Marconi

The solution of the Langevin equation of an anisotropic fluid [Colmenares P. J; L\'opez F. and Olivares-Rivas W., Phys. Rev E. 2009, 80061123] allowed the evaluation of the position dependent perpendicular and parallel diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-08 Wilmer Olivares-Rivas , Pedro J. Colmenares

This paper considers competitive Lotka-Volterra population dynamics with jumps. The contributions of this paper are as follows. (a) We show stochastic differential equation (SDE) with jumps associated with the model has a unique global…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-02-11 Jianhai Bao , Xuerong Mao , Geroge Yin , Chenggui Yuan

This is a handbook of simple proofs of the convergence of gradient and stochastic gradient descent type methods. We consider functions that are Lipschitz, smooth, convex, strongly convex, and/or Polyak-{\L}ojasiewicz functions. Our focus is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Guillaume Garrigos , Robert M. Gower

We propose a composite Lyapunov framework for nonlinear autonomous systems that ensures strict decay through a pair of differential inequalities. The approach yields integral estimates, quantitative convergence rates, vanishing of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Hassan Saoud

The dynamics of a spatially extended system of two competing species in the presence of two noise sources is studied. A correlated dichotomous noise acts on the interaction parameter and a multiplicative white noise affects directly the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Valenti , L. Schimansky-Geier , X. Sailer , B. Spagnolo

For finite-dimensional problems, stochastic approximation methods have long been used to solve stochastic optimization problems. Their application to infinite-dimensional problems is less understood, particularly for nonconvex objectives.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Caroline Geiersbach , Teresa Scarinci

This study focuses on a Wasserstein-type gradient flow, which represents an optimization process of a continuous model of a Deep Neural Network (DNN). First, we establish the existence of a minimizer for an average loss of the model under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Noboru Isobe

We analyze the nonlinear relaxation of a complex ecosystem composed of many interacting species. The ecological system is described by generalized Lotka-Volterra equations with a multiplicative noise. The transient dynamics is studied in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-23 M. A. Cirone , F. de Pasquale , B. Spagnolo