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Spectral methods of moments provide a powerful tool for learning the parameters of latent variable models. Despite their theoretical appeal, the applicability of these methods to real data is still limited due to a lack of robustness to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-18 Matteo Ruffini , Guillaume Rabusseau , Borja Balle

A new single-time two-point closure is proposed, in which the equation for the two-point correlation between the displacement of a fluid particle and the velocity allows one to estimate a Lagrangian timescale. This timescale is used to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-12-18 Wouter Bos , Jean-Pierre Bertoglio

The second moment method is a linear acceleration technique which couples the transport equation to a diffusion equation with transport-dependent additive closures. The resulting low-order diffusion equation can be discretized independent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Zachary K. Hardy , Jim E. Morel , Jan I. C. Vermaak

We demonstrate an approach to solving the coagulation equation that involves using a finite number of moments of the particle size distribution. This approach is particularly useful when only general properties of the distribution, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul R. Estrada , Jeffrey N. Cuzzi

3-D astrophysical atmospheres will have random velocity fields. We seek to combine the methods we have developed for solving the 1-D problem with arbitrary flows to those that we have developed for solving the fully 3-D relativistic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 E. Baron , Peter H. Hauschildt , Bin Chen , Sebastian Knop

We investigate the impact of momentum-dependent relaxation time approximation in the Boltzmann equation within the Bjorken flow framework by analyzing the moments of the single-particle distribution function. The moment equations, which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-23 Reghukrishnan Gangadharan , Sukanya Mitra , Victor Roy

This paper presents a dissipativeness analysis of a quadrature method of moments (called HyQMOM) for the one-dimensional BGK equation. The method has exhibited its good performance in numerous applications. However, its mathematical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Ruixi Zhang , Yihong Chen , Qian Huang , Wen-An Yong

This paper is devoted to hydrodynamic limits of linear kinetic equations when the thermodynamical equilibrium is described by a heavy-tail distribution function rather than a Maxwellian distribution. We show that the long time/small mean…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-09 Antoine Mellet

This is the third paper in a series in which we develop machine learning (ML) moment closure models for the radiative transfer equation (RTE). In our previous work \cite{huang2021gradient}, we proposed an approach to learn the gradient of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Juntao Huang , Yingda Cheng , Andrew J. Christlieb , Luke F. Roberts

Guided diffusion sampling relies on approximating often intractable likelihood scores, which introduces significant noise into the sampling dynamics. We propose using adaptive moment estimation to stabilize these noisy likelihood scores…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Christian Belardi , Justin Lovelace , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Carla P. Gomes

In order to process a potential moment sequence by the entropy optimization method one has to be assured that the original measure is absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure. We propose a non-linear exponential transform of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-01 Marko Budišić , Mihai Putinar

We present a numerical discretisation of the coupled moment systems, previously introduced in Dahm and Helzel, which approximate the kinetic multi-scale model by Helzel and Tzavaras for sedimentation in suspensions of rod-like particles for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Sina Dahm , Jan Giesselmann , Christiane Helzel

We present a technique for entropy optimization to calculate a distribution from its moments. The technique is based upon maximizing a discretized form of the Shannon entropy functional by mapping the problem onto a dual space where an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Bandyopadhyay , A. K. Bhattacharya , Parthapratim Biswas , D. A. Drabold

We introduce an equation learning framework to identify a closed set of equations for moment quantities in 1D thermal radiation transport (TRT) in optically thin media. While optically thick media admits a well-known diffusive closure, the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Daniel Messenger , Ben Southworth , Hans Hammer , Luis Chacon

Generating samples from limited information is a fundamental problem across scientific domains. Classical maximum entropy methods provide principled uncertainty quantification from moment constraints but require sampling via MCMC or…

The electron and photon transport processes in spectroscopy techniques described by the invariant embedding theory is here revisited. We report a convergence method to obtain closed analytical solutions to the 3D integro-differential…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-06-22 Carlos Figueroa , Horacio Brizuela , Silvia P. Heluani

Reaction-diffusion equations are widely used as the governing evolution equations for modeling many physical, chemical, and biological processes. Here we derive reaction-diffusion equations to model transport with reactions on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-16 E. Abad , C. N. Angstmann , B. I. Henry , A. V. McGann , F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste

A numerical method is presented to compute the eigenmodes supported by three dimensional (3D) metamaterials using the Method of Moments (MoM). The method relies on interstitial equivalent currents between layers. First, a parabolic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Denis Tihon , Valentina Sozio , Nilufer A. Ozdemir , Matteo Albani , Christophe Craeye

We address the initial source identification problem for the heat equation, a notably ill-posed inverse problem characterized by exponential instability. Departing from classical Tikhonov regularization, we propose a novel approach based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Kang Liu , Enrique Zuazua

A dry deposition model suitable for use in the moment method has been developed. Contributions from five main processes driving the deposition - Brownian diffusion, interception, impaction, turbulent impaction, and sedimentation - are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-05-12 Viktor Šíp , Luděk Beneš