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Modern single-particle-tracking techniques produce extensive time-series of diffusive motion in a wide variety of systems, from single-molecule motion in living-cells to movement ecology. The quest is to decipher the physical mechanisms…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-14 Henrik Seckler , Ralf Metzler

Anomalous diffusion, which shows a deviation of transport dynamics from the framework of standard Brownian motion, is involved in the evolution of various physical, chemical, biological, and economic systems. The study of such random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Dezhong Li , Qiujin Yao , Zihan Huang

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as a powerful class of generative AI models, showing remarkable potential in anomaly detection (AD) tasks across various domains, such as cybersecurity, fraud detection, healthcare, and manufacturing. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jing Liu , Zhenchao Ma , Zepu Wang , Chenxuanyin Zou , Jiayang Ren , Zehua Wang , Liang Song , Bo Hu , Yang Liu , Victor C. M. Leung

Anomalous diffusion processes pose a unique challenge in classification and characterization. Previously (Mangalam et al., 2023, Physical Review Research 5, 023144), we established a framework for understanding anomalous diffusion using…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-01-23 Henrik Seckler , Ralf Metzler , Damian G. Kelty-Stephen , Madhur Mangalam

While deep learning has been successfully applied to the data-driven classification of anomalous diffusion mechanisms, how the algorithm achieves the feat still remains a mystery. In this study, we use a well-known technique aimed at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jaeyong Bae , Yongjoo Baek , Hawoong Jeong

Diffusive dynamics abound in nature and have been especially studied in physical, biological, and financial systems. These dynamics are characterised by a linear growth of the mean squared displacement (MSD) with time. Often, the conditions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-14 Alvaro Lanza , Xiang Qu , Stefano Bo

Machine learning-based medical anomaly detection is an important problem that has been extensively studied. Numerous approaches have been proposed across various medical application domains and we observe several similarities across these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Tharindu Fernando , Harshala Gammulle , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Countless systems in biology, physics, and finance undergo diffusive dynamics. Many of these systems, including biomolecules inside cells, active matter systems and foraging animals, exhibit anomalous dynamics where the growth of the mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-11 Aykut Argun , Giovanni Volpe , Stefano Bo

Anomalous-diffusion, the departure of the spreading dynamics of diffusing particles from the traditional law of Brownian-motion, is a signature feature of a large number of complex soft-matter and biological systems. Anomalous-diffusion…

Anomaly detection (AD) plays a pivotal role across diverse domains, including cybersecurity, finance, healthcare, and industrial manufacturing, by identifying unexpected patterns that deviate from established norms in real-world data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yang Liu , Jing Liu , Chengfang Li , Rui Xi , Wenchao Li , Liang Cao , Jin Wang , Laurence T. Yang , Junsong Yuan , Wei Zhou

In order to study transport in complex environments, it is extremely important to determine the physical mechanism underlying diffusion, and precisely characterize its nature and parameters. Often, this task is strongly impacted by data…

We theoretically study the transport properties of self-propelled particles on complex structures, such as motor proteins on filament networks. A general master equation formalism is developed to investigate the persistent motion of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-19 M. Reza Shaebani , Zeinab Sadjadi , Igor M. Sokolov , Heiko Rieger , Ludger Santen

\hspace{2mm} Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) of the brain offers unique capabilities including noninvasive probing of tissue microstructure and structural connectivity. It is widely used for clinical assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Davood Karimi , Simon K. Warfield

This paper investigates the performance of diffusion models for video anomaly detection (VAD) within the most challenging but also the most operational scenario in which the data annotations are not used. As being sparse, diverse,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Anil Osman Tur , Nicola Dall'Asen , Cigdem Beyan , Elisa Ricci

Deep generative models have emerged as promising tools for detecting arbitrary anomalies in data, dispensing with the necessity for manual labelling. Recently, autoregressive transformers have achieved state-of-the-art performance for…

Diffusion is a fundamental physical phenomenon with critical applications in fields such as metallurgy, cell biology, and population dynamics. While standard diffusion is well-understood, anomalous diffusion often requires complex non-local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-16 Gabriel Barreiro , Vladimir Pérez-Veloz

Diffusion models, a family of generative models based on deep learning, have become increasingly prominent in cutting-edge machine learning research. With a distinguished performance in generating samples that resemble the observed data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Lequan Lin , Zhengkun Li , Ruikun Li , Xuliang Li , Junbin Gao

Recent investigations call attention to the dynamics of anomalous diffusion and its connection with basic principles of statistical mechanics. We present here a short review of those ideas and their implications.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-05 Mendeli H. Vainstein , Luciano C. Lapas , Fernando A. Oliveira

We introduce the concept of Randomly Modulated Gaussian Processes as a unifying framework for modeling, analyzing and classifying anomalous diffusion models in heterogeneous media. This formulation incorporates correlations in the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Yann Lanoiselée , Denis S. Grebenkov , Gianni Pagnini

The random motion of molecules in living cells has consistently been reported to deviate from standard Brownian motion, a behavior coined as ``anomalous diffusion''. Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) is a powerful method to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-18 Nathan Quiblier , Jan-Michael Rye , Pierre Leclerc , Henri Truong , Abdelkrim Hannou , Laurent Héliot , Hugues Berry