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Solving the stationary nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations is important in applications and examples include the Poisson-Boltzmann equation and the two layer neural networks. Making use of the connection between the interacting particle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Lei Li , Yijia Tang , Jingtong Zhang

The Fokker-Planck equation is a partial differential equation that describes the evolution of a probability distribution over time. It is used to model a wide range of physical and biological phenomena, such as diffusion, chemical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Wisit Mangthas , Waipot Ngamsaad

Time-resolved single-cell omics data offers high-throughput, genome-wide measurements of cellular states, which are instrumental to reverse-engineer the processes underpinning cell fate. Such technologies are inherently destructive,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Stephen Zhang , Suryanarayana Maddu , Xiaojie Qiu , Victor Chardès

Dimensional reduction techniques have long been used to visualize the structure and geometry of high dimensional data. However, most widely used techniques are difficult to interpret due to nonlinearities and opaque optimization processes.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-09 Andrew Baumgartner , Sui Huang , Jennifer Hadlock , Cory Funk

Particle-based Bayesian inference methods by sampling from a partition-free target (posterior) distribution, e.g., Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD), have attracted significant attention. We propose a path-guided particle-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Mingzhou Fan , Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian , Xiaoning Qian

In this paper, we consider the density estimation problem associated with the stationary measure of ergodic It\^o diffusions from a discrete-time series that approximate the solutions of the stochastic differential equations. To take an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Yiqi Gu , John Harlim , Senwei Liang , Haizhao Yang

Learning high-dimensional distributions is an important yet challenging problem in machine learning with applications in various domains. In this paper, we introduce new techniques to formulate the problem as solving Fokker-Planck equation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yufan Zhou , Changyou Chen , Jinhui Xu

We present a perturbation approach to calculate the short-time propagator, or transition density, of the one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation, to in principle arbitrary order in the time increment. Our approach preserves probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-29 Julian Kappler

The probability density function of stochastic differential equations is governed by the Fokker-Planck (FP) equation. A novel machine learning method is developed to solve the general FP equations based on deep neural networks. The proposed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Yong Xu , Hao Zhang , Yongge Li , Kuang Zhou , Qi Liu , Jürgen Kurths

Approximate weak solutions of the Fokker-Planck equation can represent a useful tool to analyze the equilibrium fluctuations of birth-death systems, as they provide a quantitative knowledge lying in between numerical simulations and exact…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-08 Filippo Palombi , Simona Toti

We tackle the problem of sampling from intractable high-dimensional density functions, a fundamental task that often appears in machine learning and statistics. We extend recent sampling-based approaches that leverage controlled stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Dinghuai Zhang , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Cheng-Hao Liu , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

Weak gravitational lensing surveys are rapidly becoming important tools to probe directly the mass density fluctuations in the universe and its background dynamics. Earlier studies have shown that it is possible to model the statistics of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Patrick Valageas , Andrew J. Barber , Dipak Munshi

To take full advantage of the unprecedented power of upcoming weak lensing surveys, understanding the noise, such as cosmic variance and geometry/mask effects, is as important as understanding the signal itself. Accurately quantifying the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Yu Yu , Pengjie Zhang , Yipeng Jing

This paper deals with uncertainty propagation of general stochastic hybrid systems (GSHS) where the continuous state space is a compact Lie group. A computational framework is proposed to solve the Fokker-Planck (FP) equation that describes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Weixin Wang , Taeyoung Lee

This paper introduces a novel deep learning method, called DeepWKB, for estimating the invariant distribution of randomly perturbed systems via its Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation $u_\epsilon(x) = Q(\epsilon)^{-1}…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Yao Li , Yicheng Liu , Shirou Wang

To overcome the computational bottleneck of various data perturbation procedures such as the bootstrap and cross validations, we propose the Generative Multiple-purpose Sampler (GMS), which constructs a generator function to produce…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-18 Minsuk Shin , Shijie Wang , Jun S Liu

We introduce a novel numerical scheme for solving the Fokker-Planck equation of discretized Dean-Kawasaki models with a functional tensor network ansatz. The Dean-Kawasaki model describes density fluctuations of interacting particle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Xun Tang , Lexing Ying

The direct sampling method proposed by Walker et al. (JCGS 2011) can generate draws from weighted distributions possibly having intractable normalizing constants. The method may be of interest as a useful tool in situations which require…

Computation · Statistics 2024-01-19 Andrew M. Raim

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

In this paper, we propose a novel method to approximate the mean field stochastic differential equation by means of approximating the density function via Fokker-Planck equation. We construct a well-posed truncated Fokker-Planck equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Jinhui Zhou , Yongkui Zou , Shimin Chai , Boyu Wang , Ziyi Tan