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We present a new method of analysis of measure-preserving dynamical systems, based on frequency analysis and ergodic theory, which extends our earlier work [1]. Our method employs the novel concept of harmonic time average [2], and is…

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We study suspension flows defined over sub-shifts of finite type with continuous roof functions. We prove the existence of suspension flows with uncountably many ergodic measures of maximal entropy. More generally, we prove that any…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Godofredo Iommi , Anibal Velozo

Subshifts of deterministic substitutions are ubiquitous objects in dynamical systems and aperiodic order (the mathematical theory of quasicrystals). Two of their most striking features are that they have low complexity (zero topological…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Philipp Gohlke , Andrew Mitchell , Dan Rust , Tony Samuel

Elucidating reaction mechanisms hinges on efficiently generating transition states (TSs), products, and complete reaction networks. Recent generative models, such as diffusion models for TS sampling and sequence-based architectures for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Ping Tuo , Jiale Chen , Ju Li

Risk-sensitive control balances performance with resilience to unlikely events in uncertain systems. This paper introduces ergodic-risk criteria, which capture long-term cumulative risks through probabilistic limit theorems. By ensuring the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Shahriar Talebi , Na Li

A low-observable distribution system has insufficient measurements for conventional weighted least square state estimators. Matrix completion state estimators have been suggested, but their computational times could be prohibitive. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Xuzhuo Wang , Guoan Yan , Zhengshuo Li

Event cameras have shown promise in vision applications like optical flow estimation and stereo matching, with many specialized architectures leveraging the asynchronous and sparse nature of event data. However, existing works only focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Pengjie Zhang , Lin Zhu , Xiao Wang , Lizhi Wang , Wanxuan Lu , Hua Huang

Current state-of-the-art generative models map noise to data distributions by matching flows or scores. A key limitation of these models is their inability to readily integrate available partial observations and additional priors. In…

The generic behavior of quantum systems has long been of theoretical and practical interest. Any quantum process is represented by a sequence of quantum channels. We consider general ergodic sequences of stochastic channels with arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Ramis Movassagh , Jeffrey Schenker

In this paper, we concern with the ergodic linear-quadratic closed-loop optimal control problems, in which the state equation is the mean-field stochastic differential equation with periodic coefficients. We first study the asymptotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Jiacheng Wu , Qi Zhang

We present some new results on sample path optimality for the ergodic control problem of a class of non-degenerate diffusions controlled through the drift. The hypothesis most often used in the literature to ensure the existence of an a.s.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Ari Arapostathis

Generative models based on flow matching have attracted significant attention for their simplicity and superior performance in high-resolution image synthesis. By leveraging the instantaneous change-of-variables formula, one can directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yasi Zhang , Peiyu Yu , Yaxuan Zhu , Yingshan Chang , Feng Gao , Ying Nian Wu , Oscar Leong

Normalizing flows are a class of deep generative models that are especially interesting for modeling probability distributions in physics, where the exact likelihood of flows allows reweighting to known target energy functions and computing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-27 Leon Klein , Andreas Krämer , Frank Noé

This paper investigates the connections between rectified flows, flow matching, and optimal transport. Flow matching is a recent approach to learning generative models by estimating velocity fields that guide transformations from a source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Johannes Hertrich , Antonin Chambolle , Julie Delon

We present an application of the recently developed ergodic theoretic machinery on scenery flows to a classical geometric measure theoretic problem in Euclidean spaces. We also review the enhancements to the theory required in our work. Our…

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The unsupervised task of aligning two or more distributions in a shared latent space has many applications including fair representations, batch effect mitigation, and unsupervised domain adaptation. Existing flow-based approaches estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Zeyu Zhou , Ziyu Gong , Pradeep Ravikumar , David I. Inouye

We propose Functional Flow Matching (FFM), a function-space generative model that generalizes the recently-introduced Flow Matching model to operate in infinite-dimensional spaces. Our approach works by first defining a path of probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Gavin Kerrigan , Giosue Migliorini , Padhraic Smyth

The paper considers an Euler discretization based numerical scheme for approximating functionals of invariant distribution of an ergodic diffusion. Convergence of the numerical scheme is shown for suitably chosen discretization step, and a…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Arnab Ganguly , P. Sundar

Diffusion and flow-matching have emerged as powerful methodologies for generative modeling, with remarkable success in capturing complex data distributions and enabling flexible guidance at inference time. Many downstream applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zeyang Li , Kaveh Alim , Navid Azizan

Statistical models are an essential tool to model, forecast and understand the hydrological processes in watersheds. In particular, the understanding of time lags associated with the delay between rainfall occurrence and subsequent changes…