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We derive pointwise curvature estimates for graphical mean curvature flows in higher codimensions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such estimates without assuming smallness of first derivatives of the defining map. An…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Knut Smoczyk , Mao-Pei Tsui , Mu-Tao Wang

In this paper we consider finite element approaches to computing the mean curvature vector and normal at the vertices of piecewise linear triangulated surfaces. In particular, we adopt a stabilization technique which allows for first order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-17 Mirza Cenanovic , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

We investigate in this work a fully-discrete semi-Lagrangian approximation of second order possibly degenerate Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations on a bounded domain with oblique boundary conditions. These equations appear naturally in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Elisa Calzola , Elisabetta Carlini , Xavier Dupuis , Francisco J. Silva

We consider a finite difference approximation of mean curvature flow for axisymmetric surfaces of genus zero. A careful treatment of the degeneracy at the axis of rotation for the one dimensional partial differential equation for a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Klaus Deckelnick , Robert Nürnberg

Huisken and Sinestrari have recently defined a surgery process for mean curvature flow when the initial data is a two-convex hypersurface. The process depends on a parameter H. Its role is to initiate a surgery when the maximum of the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-21 Joseph Lauer

In this work we are interested in dealing with single-phase flows in fractured porous media for underground processes. We focus our attention on domains where the presence of faults, with thickness several orders of magnitude smaller than…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Alessio Fumagalli , Isabelle Faille

We discuss recent results on minimal surfaces and mean curvature flow, focusing on the classification and structure of embedded minimal surfaces and the stable singularities of mean curvature flow. This article is dedicated to Rick Schoen.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

The purpose of this paper is to derive anisotropic mean curvature flow as the limit of the anisotropic Allen-Cahn equation. We rely on distributional solution concepts for both the diffuse and sharp interface models, and prove convergence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Tim Laux , Kerrek Stinson , Clemens Ullrich

In this article we consider the filtering problem associated to partially observed diffusions, with observations following a marked point process. In the model, the data form a point process with observation times that have its intensity…

Computation · Statistics 2023-11-17 Miguel Alvarez , Ajay Jasra , Hamza Ruzayqat

Normalizing flows can generate complex target distributions and thus show promise in many applications in Bayesian statistics as an alternative or complement to MCMC for sampling posteriors. Since no data set from the target posterior…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-19 Marylou Gabrié , Grant M. Rotskoff , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Physics-based optical flow models have been successful in capturing the deformities in fluid motion arising from digital imagery. However, a common theoretical framework analyzing several physics-based models is missing. In this regard, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hirak Doshi , N. Uday Kiran

We first give a general introduction to the mean curvature flow, and then discuss fundamental results established over the last 10 years that yield a precise theory for the flow through singularities in $\mathbb{R}^3$. With the aim of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Robert Haslhofer

We develop a novel Hybrid High-Order method for the simulation of Darcy flows in fractured porous media. The discretization hinges on a mixed formulation in the bulk region and on a primal formulation inside the fracture. Salient features…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Florent Chave , Daniele Di Pietro , Luca Formaggia

Normalizing flows are constructed from a base distribution with a known density and a diffeomorphism with a tractable Jacobian. The base density of a normalizing flow can be parameterised by a different normalizing flow, thus allowing maps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Samuel Klein , John Andrew Raine , Tobias Golling

Ricci flow deforms the Riemannian metric proportionally to the curvature, such that the curvature evolves according to a heat diffusion process and eventually becomes constant everywhere. Ricci flow has demonstrated its great potential by…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-03-31 Min Zhang , Ren Guo , Wei Zeng , Feng Luo , Shing-Tung Yau , Xianfeng Gu

We introduce a novel primal-dual flow for affine constrained convex optimization problems. As a modification of the standard saddle-point system, our primal-dual flow is proved to possess the exponential decay property, in terms of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Hao Luo

In the last 15 years, White and Huisken-Sinestrari developed a far-reaching structure theory for the mean curvature flow of mean convex hypersurfaces. Their papers provide a package of estimates and structural results that yield a precise…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-15 Robert Haslhofer , Bruce Kleiner

Mean shift is a simple interactive procedure that gradually shifts data points towards the mode which denotes the highest density of data points in the region. Mean shift algorithms have been effectively used for data denoising, mode…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Saptarshi Chakraborty , Debolina Paul , Swagatam Das

Recent advances in center-based clustering continue to improve upon the drawbacks of Lloyd's celebrated $k$-means algorithm over $60$ years after its introduction. Various methods seek to address poor local minima, sensitivity to outliers,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-28 Debolina Paul , Saptarshi Chakraborty , Swagatam Das , Jason Xu

Flow Matching has recently emerged as a popular class of generative models for simulating a target distribution $\mu_1$ from samples drawn from a source distribution $\mu_0$. This framework relies on a fixed coupling between $\mu_0$ and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Le-Tuyet-Nhi Pham , Giovanni Conforti , Zhenjie Ren , Alain Durmus