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Multi-object state estimation is a fundamental problem for robotic applications where a robot must interact with other moving objects. Typically, other objects' relevant state features are not directly observable, and must instead be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Angad Singh , Omar Makhlouf , Maximilian Igl , Joao Messias , Arnaud Doucet , Shimon Whiteson

We introduce a score-based generative sampling method for solving the nonlinear filtering problem with robust accuracy. A major drawback of existing nonlinear filtering methods, e.g., particle filters, is the low stability. To overcome this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Feng Bao , Zezhong Zhang , Guannan Zhang

This paper proposes a novel numerical integrator for modeling multispecies Coulomb collisions in kinetic plasmas. The proposed scheme provides an energy-, momentum-, and positivity-preserving particle discretization of the nonlinear Landau…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Filippo Zonta , Joseph V. Pusztay , Eero Hirvijoki

We derive a differential-integral equation akin to the Hegselmann-Krause model of opinion dynamics, and propose a particle method for solving the equation. Numerical experiments demonstrate second-order convergence of the method in a weak…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Bruce Boghosian , Christoph Börgers , Natasa Dragovic , Anna Haensch , Arkadz Kirshtein

We introduce an extension of the particle-in-cell (PIC) method that captures the Landau collisional effects in the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau equations. The method arises from a regularisation of the variational formulation of the Landau…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Rafael Bailo , José A. Carrillo , Jingwei Hu

We study a regularized version of the Landau equation, which was recently introduced in~\cite{CHWW20} to numerically approximate the Landau equation with good accuracy at reasonable computational cost. We develop the existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-15 José A. Carrillo , Matias G. Delgadino , Jeremy S. H. Wu

We develop novel asymptotic-preserving (AP) deterministic particle methods for collisional plasma models, including both Landau--Fokker--Planck and Dougherty collision operators, under hydrodynamic scaling. Our schemes treat the non-stiff…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Yan Huang , Li Wang

The one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system is considered and a particle method is developed to approximate solutions without compact support which tend to a fixed background of charge as $| x | \to \infty$. Such a system of equations can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Stephen Pankavich

We study a deterministic particle scheme to solve a scalar balance equation with nonlocal interaction and nonlinear mobility used to model congested dynamics. The main novelty with respect to "Radici-Stra [SIAM J. Math. Anal. 55.3 (2023)]"…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Emanuela Radici , Federico Stra

Conditional density estimation is a general framework for solving various problems in machine learning. Among existing methods, non-parametric and/or kernel-based methods are often difficult to use on large datasets, while methods based on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-06 Hiroaki Sasaki , Aapo Hyvärinen

We study the particle method to approximate the gradient flow on the $L^p$-Wasserstein space. This method relies on the discretization of the energy introduced by [3] via nonoverlapping balls centered at the particles and preserves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Rong Lei

A thermodynamically consistent particle-based model for fluid dynamics with continuous velocities and a non-ideal equation of state is presented. Excluded volume interactions are modeled by means of biased stochastic multiparticle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Ihle , Erkan Tuzel , Daniel M. Kroll

We have developed a deterministic conservative solver for the inhomogeneous Fokker-Planck-Landau equation coupled with the Poisson equation, which is a {classical mean-field} primary model for collisional plasmas. Two subproblems, i.e. the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-06-19 Chenglong Zhang , Irene M. Gamba

The Landau equation is a kinetic equation based on the weak coupling approximation of the interaction between the particles. In the framework of dry active matter this new kinetic equation relies on the weak coupling approximation of both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-19 Aurelio Patelli

In this paper, we introduce a novel solution to the covariant Landau equation for a pure electron plasma. The method conserves energy and particle number, and reduces smoothly to the Rosenbluth potentials of non-relativistic theory. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Brandon Wolfe , Fulvio Melia

The aim of this paper is to obtain estimates for the density of the law of a specific nonlinear diffusion process at any positive bounded time. This process is issued from kinetic theory and is called Landau process, by analogy with the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Hélène Guérin , Sylvie Méléard , Eulalia Nualart

We present a novel flow-based kinetic approach, inspired by continuous normalizing flows, for plasma simulation that unifies the complementary strengths of direct Vlasov solvers and particle-based methods. By tracking the distribution…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Bowen Zhu , Jian Wu , Yuanbo Lu

We prove a quantitative result of convergence of a conservative stochastic particle system to the solution of the homogeneous Landau equation for hard potentials. There are two main difficulties: (i) the known stability results for this…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Nicolas Fournier , Arnaud Guillin

Particle discretizations of partial differential equations are advantageous for high-dimensional kinetic models in phase space due to their better scalability than continuum approaches with respect to dimension. Complex processes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Mark F. Adams , Daniel S. Finn , Matthew G. Knepley , Joseph V. Pusztay

We propose a deterministic sampling framework using Score-Based Transport Modeling for sampling an unnormalized target density $\pi$ given only its score $\nabla \log \pi$. Our method approximates the Wasserstein gradient flow on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Vasily Ilin , Peter Sushko , Jingwei Hu