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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is an indispensable method of fluid modelling in engineering applications, reducing the need for physical prototypes and testing for tasks such as design optimisation and performance analysis. Depending on…

Generating temporal data under conditions is crucial for forecasting, imputation, and generative tasks. Such data often has metadata and partially observed signals that jointly influence the generated values. However, existing methods face…

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Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating high-quality samples and enhancing performance across diverse domains through Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG). However, the quality of generated samples is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ao Chen , Lihe Ding , Tianfan Xue

Direct and large-eddy simulations of turbulence are often solved using explicit temporal schemes. However, this imposes very small time-steps because the eigenvalues of the (linearized) dynamical system, re-scaled by the time-step, must lie…

Time series with missing or irregularly sampled data are a persistent challenge in machine learning. Many methods operate on the frequency-domain, relying on the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) which assumes uniform sampling, therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Elizabeth Fons , Alejandro Sztrajman , Yousef El-Laham , Luciana Ferrer , Svitlana Vyetrenko , Manuela Veloso

We introduce Lagrangian Flow Networks (LFlows) for modeling fluid densities and velocities continuously in space and time. By construction, the proposed LFlows satisfy the continuity equation, a PDE describing mass conservation in its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 F. Arend Torres , Marcello Massimo Negri , Marco Inversi , Jonathan Aellen , Volker Roth

Classical Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) of long-time processes with strongly separated time scales is computationally extremely demanding if not impossible. Consequently, the state-of-the-art description of such systems is not capable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-08 Thomas Lichtenegger , Stefan Pirker

A novel optimization approach is proposed for application to policy gradient methods and evolution strategies for reinforcement learning (RL). The procedure uses a computationally efficient Wasserstein natural gradient (WNG) descent that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Ted Moskovitz , Michael Arbel , Ferenc Huszar , Arthur Gretton

In this work, we investigate the use of data-driven equation discovery for dynamical systems to model and forecast continuous-time dynamics of unconstrained optimization problems. To avoid expensive evaluations of the objective function and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Grant Norman , Conor Rowan , Kurt Maute , Alireza Doostan

A novel semi-Lagrangian method is introduced to solve numerically the Euler equation for ideal incompressible flow in arbitrary space dimension. It exploits the time-analyticity of fluid particle trajectories and requires, in principle,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 O. Podvigina , V. Zheligovsky , U. Frisch

Accurate and efficient prediction of extreme ship responses continues to be a challenging problem in ship hydrodynamics. Probabilistic frameworks in conjunction with computationally efficient numerical hydrodynamic tools have been developed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-25 Kevin M. Silva , Kevin J. Maki

Implementing particle-interaction configuration and time integration are performance intensive essentials of particle-based methods. In this paper, a dual-criteria time-stepping method is proposed to improve the computational efficiency of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-28 Chi Zhang , Massoud Rezavand , Xiangyu Hu

This paper introduces a new method for performing computational inference on log-Gaussian Cox processes. The likelihood is approximated directly by making novel use of a continuously specified Gaussian random field. We show that for…

Computation · Statistics 2015-11-02 Daniel Simpson , Janine Illian , Finn Lindgren , Sigrunn Sørbye , Håvard Rue

Particle-based variational inference methods (ParVIs) such as Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD) update the particles based on the kernelized Wasserstein gradient flow for the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. However, the design of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-26 Ziheng Cheng , Shiyue Zhang , Longlin Yu , Cheng Zhang

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success across various domains. However, their slow generation speed remains a critical challenge. Existing acceleration methods, while aiming to reduce steps, often compromise sample quality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Huiyang Shao , Xin Xia , Yuhong Yang , Yuxi Ren , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao

The Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) condition guarantees the stability of the popular explicit leapfrog method for the wave equation. However, it limits the choice of the time step size to be bounded by the minimal mesh size in the spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Daniel Peterseim , Mira Schedensack

In this work, we investigate a variational formulation for a time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation which arises in the study of complex physical systems involving anomalously slow diffusion. The model involves a fractional-order Caputo…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Manh Hong Duong , Bangti Jin

Conditional Flow Matching (CFM) models can generate high-quality samples from a non-informative prior, but they can be slow, often needing hundreds of network evaluations (NFE). To address this, we propose Implicit Dynamical Flow Fusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mohammad R. Rezaei , Milos R. Popovic , Milad Lankarany , Rahul G. Krishnan

We analyze two novel randomized variants of the Frank-Wolfe (FW) or conditional gradient algorithm. While classical FW algorithms require solving a linear minimization problem over the domain at each iteration, the proposed method only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Thomas Kerdreux , Fabian Pedregosa , Alexandre d'Aspremont

We propose a method for inferring the conditional independence graph (CIG) of a high-dimensional Gaussian vector time series (discrete-time process) from a finite-length observation. By contrast to existing approaches, we do not rely on a…

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