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We study an optimal transport problem in a compact convex set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ where bulk transport is coupled to dynamic optimal transport on a metric graph $ \mathsf{G} = (\mathsf{V},\mathsf{E})$ which is embedded in $\Omega$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Marcello Carioni , Juliane Krautz , Jan-F. Pietschmann

We provide a visual and intuitive introduction to effectively calculating in 2-groups along with explicit examples coming from non-abelian 1- and 2-form gauge theory. In particular, we utilize string diagrams, tools similar to tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Arthur J. Parzygnat

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) has been praised by researchers for its ability to capture intricate shapes and structures within data. TDA is considered robust in handling noisy and high-dimensional datasets, and its interpretability is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Funmilola Mary Taiwo , Umar Islambekov , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora

Topological data analysis (TDA) is an emerging mathematical concept for characterizing shapes in complex data. In TDA, persistence diagrams are widely recognized as a useful descriptor of data, and can distinguish robust and noisy…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Genki Kusano , Kenji Fukumizu , Yasuaki Hiraoka

Topological data analysis (TDA) provides a growing body of tools for computing geometric and topological information about spaces from a finite sample of points. We present a new adaptive algorithm for finding provably dense samples of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Emilie Dufresne , Parker B. Edwards , Heather A. Harrington , Jonathan D. Hauenstein

Manifold learning is a central task in modern statistics and data science. Many datasets (cells, documents, images, molecules) can be represented as point clouds embedded in a high dimensional ambient space, however the degrees of freedom…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-18 Stephen Zhang , Gilles Mordant , Tetsuya Matsumoto , Geoffrey Schiebinger

In many scientific fields imaging is used to relate a certain physical quantity to other dependent variables. Therefore, images can be considered as a map from a real-world coordinate system to the non-negative measurements being acquired.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Liam Cattell , Gustavo K. Rohde

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) struggle to capture the multi-dimensional structural information of complex high-dimensional data, which limits their feature learning capability. This paper proposes a feature fusion method based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yang Han , Qin Guangjun , Liu Ziyuan , Hu Yongqing , Liu Guangnan , Dai Qinglong

The existing kinetic theory of gases is based on an analytical approach that becomes intractable for all but the simplest molecules. Here we propose a simple numerical scheme to compute the transport properties of molecular gases in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-25 Xipeng Wang , Simón Ramírez-Hinestrosa , Daan Frenkel

Evaluating the quality of reasoning traces from large language models remains understudied, labor-intensive, and unreliable: current practice relies on expert rubrics, manual annotation, and slow pairwise judgments. Automated efforts are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Xue Wen Tan , Nathaniel Tan , Galen Lee , Stanley Kok

Topological data analysis (TDA) provides insight into data shape. The summaries obtained by these methods are principled global descriptions of multi-dimensional data whilst exhibiting stable properties such as robustness to deformation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Ali Zia , Abdelwahed Khamis , James Nichols , Zeeshan Hayder , Vivien Rolland , Lars Petersson

We introduce quantum optimal transport of states on tracial AF-$C^{*}$-algebras to study non-spatial transport of quantum information, and view it as the pointwise case of a general parametrised one. We define quantum optimal transport…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2024-03-19 David F. Hornshaw

This work proposes kernel transform learning. The idea of dictionary learning is well known; it is a synthesis formulation where a basis is learnt along with the coefficients so as to generate or synthesize the data. Transform learning is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Jyoti Maggu , Angshul Majumdar

The theory of optimal transportation has developed into a powerful and elegant framework for comparing probability distributions, with wide-ranging applications in all areas of science. The fundamental idea of analyzing probabilities by…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-14 Florian F Gunsilius

Optimal Transport has recently gained interest in machine learning for applications ranging from domain adaptation, sentence similarities to deep learning. Yet, its ability to capture frequently occurring structure beyond the "ground…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-19 David Alvarez-Melis , Tommi S. Jaakkola , Stefanie Jegelka

By using the quantum Ising chain as a test bed and treating the spin polarization along the external transverse field as the "generalized density", we examine the performance of different levels of density functional approximations parallel…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Jiahao Mao , Haifeng Tang , Wenhui Duan , Zheng Liu

We study network properties of networks evolving in time based on optimal transport principles. These evolve from a structure covering uniformly a continuous space towards an optimal design in terms of optimal transport theory. At…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-25 Diego Baptista , Caterina De Bacco

In this paper, we explore the idea of combining GCNs into one model. To that end, we align the weights of different models layer-wise using optimal transport (OT). We present and evaluate three types of transportation costs and show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Weronika Ormaniec , Michael Vollenweider , Elisa Hoskovec

Many problems in machine learning involve calculating correspondences between sets of objects, such as point clouds or images. Discrete optimal transport provides a natural and successful approach to such tasks whenever the two sets of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 David Alvarez-Melis , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi S. Jaakkola

We present a cluster-based density-functional approach to model charge transport through molecular and atomic contacts. The electronic structure of the contacts is determined in the framework of density functional theory, and the parameters…

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