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The modeling of diffusion processes on graphs is the basis for many network science and machine learning approaches. Entropic measures of network-based diffusion have recently been employed to investigate the reversibility of these…
Optimal transportation provides a means of lifting distances between points on a geometric domain to distances between signals over the domain, expressed as probability distributions. On a graph, transportation problems can be used to…
We formulate and solve a regression problem with time-stamped distributional data. Distributions are considered as points in the Wasserstein space of probability measures, metrized by the 2-Wasserstein metric, and may represent images,…
In this paper we developed an analysis of the compressible, isentropic Euler equations in two spatial dimensions for a generalized polytropic gas law. The main focus is rotational flows in the subsonic regimes, described through the…
We develop a fast and scalable numerical approach to solve Wasserstein gradient flows (WGFs), particularly suitable for high-dimensional cases. Our approach is to use general reduced-order models, like deep neural networks, to parameterize…
Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…
We propose a method of characterizing radial networks based on a partition function associated with the structural triangulation of the network. The internal energy, Helmholtz free energy, and entropy derived from the partition function are…
Both the porous medium equation and the system of isentropic Euler equations can be considered as steepest descents on suitable manifolds of probability measures in the framework of optimal transport theory. By discretizing these…
In this paper we consider the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation on the metric star graph with tree semi-infinite bonds. At the branched point we put two types of vertex boundary conditions: the weight continuity and the condition for…
Given a family of probability measures in P(X), the space of probability measures on a Hilbert space X, our goal in this paper is to highlight one ore more curves in P(X) that summarize efficiently that family. We propose to study this…
Graphs are fundamental tools for modeling pairwise interactions in complex systems. However, many real-world systems involve multi-way interactions that cannot be fully captured by standard graphs. Hypergraphs, which generalize graphs by…
We investigate a Benamou--Brenier type transportation metric for nonnegative measures on a finite reversible Markov chain, which endows the space of measures with a Riemannian structure. Using this geometric framework, we identify a…
Vascular networks are used across the kingdoms of life to transport fluids, nutrients and cellular material. A popular unifying idea for understanding the diversity and constraints of these networks is that the conduits making up the…
In this paper, we address the numerical solution of the Optimal Transport Problem on undirected weighted graphs, taking the shortest path distance as transport cost. The optimal solution is obtained from the long-time limit of the gradient…
The solution of potential-driven steady-state flow in large networks is required in various engineering applications, such as transport of natural gas or water through pipeline networks. The resultant system of nonlinear equations depends…
Transport and mixing processes in fluid flows can be studied directly from Lagrangian trajectory data, such as obtained from particle tracking experiments. Recent work in this context highlights the application of graph-based approaches,…
This work considers the problem of computing distances between structured objects such as undirected graphs, seen as probability distributions in a specific metric space. We consider a new transportation distance (i.e. that minimizes a…
In 1966, Edward Nelson presented an interesting derivation of the Schrodinger equation using Brownian motion. Recently, this derivation is linked to the theory of optimal transport, which shows that the Schrodinger equation is a Hamiltonian…
We study diffusion in a network which is governed by non-autonomous Kirchhoff conditions at the vertices of the graph. Also the diffusion coefficients may depend on time. We prove at first a result on existence and uniqueness using form…