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The adapted Wasserstein distance is a metric for quantifying distributional uncertainty and assessing the sensitivity of stochastic optimization problems on time series data. A computationally efficient alternative to it, is provided by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Beatrice Acciaio , Songyan Hou , Gudmund Pammer

We consider discrete porous medium equations of the form \partial_t \rho_t = \Delta \phi(\rho_t), where \Delta is the generator of a reversible continuous time Markov chain on a finite set X, and \phi is an increasing function. We show that…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-06 Matthias Erbar , Jan Maas

Inspired by recent work on minimizers and gradient flows of constrained interaction energies, we prove that these energies arise as the slow diffusion limit of well-known aggregation-diffusion energies. We show that minimizers of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Katy Craig , Ihsan Topaloglu

In this paper, we deal with a class of time-homogeneous continuous-time Markov processes with transition probabilities bearing a nonparametric uncertainty. The uncertainty is modeled by considering perturbations of the transition…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Sven Fuhrmann , Michael Kupper , Max Nendel

A relaxed notion of displacement convexity is defined and used to establish short time existence and uniqueness of Wasserstein gradient flows for higher order energy functionals. As an application, local and global well-posedness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-18 Ehsan Kamalinejad

It is well-known that many diffusion equations can be recast as Wasserstein gradient flows. Moreover, in recent years, by modifying the Wasserstein distance appropriately, this technique has been transferred to further evolution equations…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Kaveh Bashiri , Anton Bovier

Our study of a basic model for incompressible two-phase flows with phase transitions consistent with thermodynamics in the case of constant but non-equal densities of the phases, begun by the first two authors is continued. We extend our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-12 Jan Pruess , Senjo Shimizu , Mathias Wilke

We study the asymptotics of the expected Wasserstein distance between the empirical measure of a Point Process and the background volume form. The main DPP studied is the harmonic ensemble, where we get the optimal rate of convergence for…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Pablo García-Arias

Despite the widespread success of Transformers across various domains, their optimization guarantees in large-scale model settings are not well-understood. This paper rigorously analyzes the convergence properties of gradient flow in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-01 Cheng Gao , Yuan Cao , Zihao Li , Yihan He , Mengdi Wang , Han Liu , Jason Matthew Klusowski , Jianqing Fan

This work is the third part of a program initiated in arXiv:2111.13258, arXiv:2302.06571 aiming at the development of an intrinsic geometric well-posedness theory for Hamilton-Jacobi equations related to controlled gradient flow problems in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Giovanni Conforti , Richard C. Kraaij , Luca Tamanini , Daniela Tonon

This thesis analyze the Wasserstein gradient flow of a functional defined as a double convolution of a non-smooth repulsive interaction potential. To be more precise, the potential under investigation has a -|x| behavior close to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Giovanni A. Bonaschi

The Wasserstein distance has emerged as a key metric to quantify distances between probability distributions, with applications in various fields, including machine learning, control theory, decision theory, and biological systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Eduardo Figueiredo , Steven Adams , Luca Laurenti

We develop in this paper a new regularized flow dynamic approach to construct efficient numerical schemes for Wasserstein gradient flows in Lagrangian coordinates. Instead of approximating the Wasserstein distance which needs to solve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Qing Cheng , Qianqian Liu , Wenbin Chen , Jie Shen

We present a novel computational framework for density control in high-dimensional state spaces. The considered dynamical system consists of a large number of indistinguishable agents whose behaviors can be collectively modeled as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Shaojun Ma , Mengxue Hou , Xiaojing Ye , Haomin Zhou

Non-convex sampling is a key challenge in machine learning, central to non-convex optimization in deep learning as well as to approximate probabilistic inference. Despite its significance, theoretically there remain many important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Mohammad Reza Karimi , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Andreas Krause

We study the large deviation rate functional for the empirical distribution of independent Brownian particles with drift. In one dimension, it has been shown by Adams, Dirr, Peletier and Zimmer that this functional is asymptotically…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Matthias Erbar , Jan Maas , Michiel Renger

We provide new convergence guarantees in Wasserstein distance for diffusion-based generative models, covering both stochastic (DDPM-like) and deterministic (DDIM-like) sampling methods. We introduce a simple framework to analyze…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Eliot Beyler , Francis Bach

This study focuses on a Wasserstein-type gradient flow, which represents an optimization process of a continuous model of a Deep Neural Network (DNN). First, we establish the existence of a minimizer for an average loss of the model under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Noboru Isobe

One of the most popular approaches for solving total variation-regularized optimization problems in the space of measures are Particle Gradient Flows (PGFs). These restrict the problem to linear combinations of Dirac deltas and then perform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Christian Amend , Marcello Carioni , Konstantinos Zemas

In this paper we establish a rigorous gradient flow structure for one-dimensional Kimura equations with respect to some Wasserstein-Shahshahani optimal transport geometry. This is achieved by first conditioning the underlying stochastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Jean-Baptiste Casteras , Léonard Monsaingeon