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In this paper we define and study the moduli space of metric-graph-flows in a manifold M. This is a space of smooth maps from a finite graph to M, which, when restricted to each edge, is a gradient flow line of a smooth (and generically…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ralph L. Cohen , Paul Norbury

This thesis analyze the Wasserstein gradient flow of a functional defined as a double convolution of a non-smooth repulsive interaction potential. To be more precise, the potential under investigation has a -|x| behavior close to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Giovanni A. Bonaschi

By the method of discrete Morse flows, we construct an energy reducing multiple-valued function flow. The flow we get is Holder continuous with respect to the L-2 norm. We also give another way of constructing flows in some special cases,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Wei Zhu

We present numerical simulations of diffusio-osmotic flow, i.e. the fluid flow generated by a concentration gradient along a solid-fluid interface. In our study, we compare a number of distinct approaches that have been proposed for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-23 Yawei Liu , Raman Ganti , Daan Frenkel

In this contribution we present an exploratory study of several novel methods for numerical stochastic perturbation theory. For the investigation we consider observables defined through the gradient flow in the simple {\phi}^4 theory.

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-12-29 Mattia Dalla Brida , Marco Garofalo , Anthony D. Kennedy

Recently, the connections between gradient flow and renormalization group have been explored analytically and numerically. Gradient flow (when modified by a field rescaling) can be characterized as a continuous blocking transformation. In…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-12-05 Andrea Carosso , Anna Hasenfratz , Ethan T. Neil

In this paper we study a gradient flow approach to the problem of quantization of measures in one dimension. By embedding our problem in $L^2$, we find a continuous version of it that corresponds to the limit as the number of particles…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Emanuele Caglioti , François Golse , Mikaela Iacobelli

We study the dynamics of gradient flow for training a multi-head softmax attention model for in-context learning of multi-task linear regression. We establish the global convergence of gradient flow under suitable choices of initialization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Siyu Chen , Heejune Sheen , Tianhao Wang , Zhuoran Yang

A gradient flow equation for $\lambda\phi^{4}$ theory in $D=4$ is formulated. In this scheme the gradient flow equation is written in terms of the renormalized probe variable $\Phi(t,x)$ and renormalized parameters $m^{2}$ and $\lambda$ in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-03-23 Kazuo Fujikawa

To capture the global structure of a dynamical system we reformulate dynamics in terms of appropriately constructed topologies, which we call flow topologies; we call this process topologization. This yields a description of a semi-flow in…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Kelly Spendlove , Robert Vandervorst

Fractional derivatives are a well-studied generalization of integer order derivatives. Naturally, for optimization, it is of interest to understand the convergence properties of gradient descent using fractional derivatives. Convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Ashwani Aggarwal

The Brownian motion over the space of fluid velocity configurations driven by the hydrodynamical equations is considered. The Green function is computed in the form of an asymptotic series close to the standard diffusion kernel. The high…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Volchenkov , R. Lima

Existing analyses of optimization in deep learning are either continuous, focusing on (variants of) gradient flow, or discrete, directly treating (variants of) gradient descent. Gradient flow is amenable to theoretical analysis, but is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Omer Elkabetz , Nadav Cohen

We provide a new approach to studying the moduli space of curves via Morse theory and hyperbolic geometry, by introducing a family of Morse functions on the moduli space $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$ of stable curves of genus $g$ with $n$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Changjie Chen

The paper surveys recent progresses in understanding the dynamics and loss landscape of the gradient flow equations associated to deep linear neural networks, i.e., the gradient descent training dynamics (in the limit when the step size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Joel Wendin , Claudio Altafini

We consider the dynamics of vector fields on three-manifolds which are constrained to lie within a plane field, such as occurs in nonholonomic dynamics. On compact manifolds, such vector fields force dynamics beyond that of a gradient flow,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Etnyre , Robert Ghrist

We present new abstract results on the interrelation between the minimizing movement scheme for gradient flows along a sequence of Gamma-converging functionals and the gradient flow motion for the corresponding limit functional, in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Florentine Fleißner

This paper deals with local criteria for the convergence to a global minimiser for gradient flow trajectories and their discretisations. To obtain quantitative estimates on the speed of convergence, we consider variations on the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Lorenzo Dello Schiavo , Jan Maas , Francesco Pedrotti

This paper introduces new methods to study the long time behaviour of the generalised gradient flow associated with a solution of the critical equation for mechanical Hamiltonian system posed on the flat torus $\mathbb{T}^d$. For this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Paolo Albano , Piermarco Cannarsa , Wei Cheng , Cristian Mendico

Uncertainty propagation and filtering can be interpreted as gradient flows with respect to suitable metrics in the infinite dimensional manifold of probability density functions. Such a viewpoint has been put forth in recent literature, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Abhishek Halder , Tryphon T. Georgiou