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Handling an infinite number of inequality constraints in infinite-dimensional spaces occurs in many fields, from global optimization to optimal transport. These problems have been tackled individually in several previous articles through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Alessandro Rudi

This paper studies the cosine as basis function for the approximation of univariate and continuous functions without memory. This work studies a supervised learning to obtain the approximation coefficients, instead of using the Discrete…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Ana I. Pérez-Neira , Marc Martinez-Gost , Miguel Ángel Lagunas

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a rising field in the intersection of mathematics, statistics, and computer science/data science. The cornerstone of TDA is persistent homology, which produces a summary of topological information called a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yu-Min Chung , Michael Hull , Austin Lawson , Neil Pritchard

Topological data analysis (TDA) detects geometric structure in biological data. However, many TDA algorithms are memory intensive and impractical for massive datasets. Here, we introduce a statistical protocol that reduces TDA's memory…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-05 Andrew J. Stier , Naichen Shi , Raed Al Kontar , Chad Giusti , Marc G. Berman

We address the problem of learning on sets of features, motivated by the need of performing pooling operations in long biological sequences of varying sizes, with long-range dependencies, and possibly few labeled data. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Grégoire Mialon , Dexiong Chen , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Julien Mairal

Optimal transport has emerged as a fundamental methodology with applications spanning multiple research areas in recent years. However, the convergence rate of the empirical estimator to its population counterpart suffers from the curse of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Jiaping Yang , Yunxin Zhang

Feature learning in neural networks is crucial for their expressive power and inductive biases, motivating various theoretical approaches. Some approaches describe network behavior after training through a change in kernel scale from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-29 Noa Rubin , Kirsten Fischer , Javed Lindner , David Dahmen , Inbar Seroussi , Zohar Ringel , Michael Krämer , Moritz Helias

Tropical Geometry and Mathematical Morphology share the same max-plus and min-plus semiring arithmetic and matrix algebra. In this chapter we summarize some of their main ideas and common (geometric and algebraic) structure, generalize and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Petros Maragos , Emmanouil Theodosis

Paper contains description of the fields nonlinear modes successive quantization scheme. It is shown that the path integrals for absorption part of amplitudes are defined on the Dirac ($\d$-like) functional measure. This permits arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Manjavidze

Lifting is an efficient technique to scale up graphical models generalized to relational domains by exploiting the underlying symmetries. Concurrently, neural models are continuously expanding from grid-like tensor data into structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Gustav Sourek , Filip Zelezny , Ondrej Kuzelka

Recent studies have outlined the interest for the evaluation of transport coefficients in space plasmas, where the observed velocity distributions of plasma particles are conditioned not only by the binary collisions, e.g., at low energies,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Edin Husidic , Klaus Scherer , Marian Lazar , Horst Fichtner , Stefaan Poedts

Optimal transport (OT) is a powerful geometric and probabilistic tool for finding correspondences and measuring similarity between two distributions. Yet, its original formulation relies on the existence of a cost function between the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-09 Ievgen Redko , Titouan Vayer , Rémi Flamary , Nicolas Courty

We introduce a framework for analyzing topological tipping in time-evolutionary point clouds by extending the recently proposed Topological Optimal Transport (TpOT) distance. While TpOT unifies geometric, homological, and higher-order…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-18 Yixin Wang , Ting Gao , Jinqiao Duan

Improvements in experimental and computational technologies have led to significant increases in data available for analysis. Topological data analysis (TDA) is an emerging area of mathematical research that can identify structures in these…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-25 Maria-Veronica Ciocanel , Riley Juenemann , Adriana T. Dawes , Scott A. McKinley

We present an efficient numerical approach for treating ballistic quantum transport across devices described by tight binding (TB) Hamiltonians designated to systems with localized potential defects. The method is based on the wave function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 K. Kolasiński , A. Mreńca-Kolasińska , B. Szafran

This survey has been written in occasion of the School and Workshop about Optimal Transport on Quantum Structures at Erd\"os Center in September 2022. We discuss some recent results on noncommutative entropic optimal transport problems and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Lorenzo Portinale

In its most general form, the optimal transport problem is an infinite-dimensional optimization problem, yet certain notable instances admit closed-form solutions. We identify the common source of this tractability as \textit{symmetry} and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Bahar Taskesen

The prospects of extracting transport coefficients from euclidean lattice simulations are discussed. Some general comments on the reconstruction of spectral functions using the Maximal Entropy Method are given as well.

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Gert Aarts , Jose M. Martinez Resco

Contraction properties of transport maps between probability measures play an important role in the theory of functional inequalities. The actual construction of such maps, however, is a non-trivial task and, so far, relies mostly on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Dan Mikulincer , Yair Shenfeld

The Sine Gordon theory is generalized to include several cosine terms. This is similar to the world sheet description of a string propagating in a tachyon background. This model is studied as a (boundary) 2d euclidean field theory and also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-12 Prafulla Oak , B. Sathiapalan