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Sampling a probability distribution with an unknown normalization constant is a fundamental problem in computational science and engineering. This task may be cast as an optimization problem over all probability measures, and an initial…

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Given any closed Riemannian manifold $M$, we construct a reversible diffusion process on the space ${\mathcal P}(M)$ of probability measures on $M$ that is (i) reversible w.r.t.~the entropic measure ${\mathbb P}^\beta$ on ${\mathcal P}(M)$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-25 Karl-Theodor Sturm

We consider a family of fractional porous media equations, recently studied by Caffarelli and V\'azquez. We show the construction of a weak solution as Wasserstein gradient flow of a square fractional Sobolev norm. Energy dissipation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Stefano Lisini , Edoardo Mainini , Antonio Segatti

We investigate a family of gradient flows of positive and probability measures, focusing on the Hellinger-Kantorovich (HK) geometry, which unifies transport mechanism of Otto-Wasserstein, and the birth-death mechanism of Hellinger (or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Alexander Mielke , Jia-Jie Zhu

This paper provides a formulation of the log-homotopy particle flow from the perspective of variational inference. We show that the transient density used to derive the particle flow follows a time-scaled trajectory of the Fisher-Rao…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-06 Yinzhuang Yi , Jorge Cortés , Nikolay Atanasov

We consider a randomly forced Ginzburg-Landau equation on an unbounded domain. The forcing is smooth and homogeneous in space and white noise in time. We prove existence and smoothness of solutions, existence of an invariant measure for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jacques Rougemont

Global existence and long-time behavior of solutions to a family of nonlinear fourth order evolution equations on $R^d$ are studied. These equations constitute gradient flows for the perturbed information functionals $F[u] = 1/(2\alpha)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-06 Daniel Matthes , Robert J. McCann , Giuseppe Savar'e

Fine regularity of stochastic processes is usually measured in a local way by local H\"older exponents and in a global way by fractal dimensions. Following a previous work of Adler, we connect these two concepts for multiparameter Gaussian…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Erick Herbin , Benjamin Arras , Geoffroy Barruel

In this article we study existence of pathwise stochastic integrals with respect to a general class of $n$-dimensional Gaussian processes and a wide class of adapted integrands. More precisely, we study integrands which are functions that…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Zhe Chen , Lauri Viitasaari

We consider stochastic optimization problems involving an expected value of a nonlinear function of a base random vector and a conditional expectation of another function depending on the base random vector, a dependent random vector, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Andrzej Ruszczyński , Shangzhe Yang

Fix a smooth Morse function $U\colon \mathbb{R}^{d}\to\mathbb{R}$ with finitely many critical points, and consider the solution of the stochastic differential equation \[ d\boldsymbol{x}_{\epsilon}(t)=-\nabla…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Claudio Landim , Jungkyoung Lee , Mauro Mariani

Let $\mathcal{P}_{\lambda}:=\mathcal{P}_{\lambda\kappa}$ denote a Poisson point process of intensity $\lambda\kappa$ on $[0,1]^d,d\geq2$, with $\kappa$ a bounded density on $[0,1]^d$ and $\lambda\in(0,\infty)$. Given a closed subset…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-02-02 J. E. Yukich

We introduce and study the class of totally dissipative multivalued probability vector fields (MPVF) $\boldsymbol{\mathrm F}$ on the Wasserstein space $(\mathcal{P}_2(\mathsf{X}),W_2)$ of Euclidean or Hilbertian probability measures. We…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Giulia Cavagnari , Giuseppe Savaré , Giacomo Enrico Sodini

In finite dimension, the long-time and metastable behavior of a gradient flow perturbated by a small Brownian noise is well understood. A similar situation arises when a Wasserstein gradient flow over a space of probability measure is…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Pierre Monmarché

We study the gradient flow of the length functional on the space of planar immersed closed curves, where the gradient is taken with respect to a family of homogeneous Sobolev $H^1$-type Riemannian metrics depending on parameters $\lambda>0$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Philip Schrader , Glen Wheeler , Valentina Wheeler

Stochastic line integrals provide a useful tool for quantitatively characterizing irreversibility and detailed balance violation in noise-driven dynamical systems. A particular realization is the stochastic area, recently studied in coupled…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-14 Stephen Teitsworth , John Neu

The critical $2d$ Stochastic Heat Flow (SHF) is a stochastic process of random measures on ${\mathbb R}^2$, recently constructed in [CSZ23]. We show that this process falls outside the class of Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos (GMC), in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Francesco Caravenna , Rongfeng Sun , Nikos Zygouras

Our work is part of the close link between continuous-time dissipative dynamical systems and optimization algorithms, and more precisely here, in the stochastic setting. We aim to study stochastic convex minimization problems through the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Rodrigo Maulen-Soto , Jalal Fadili , Hedy Attouch , Peter Ochs

We derive Wasserstein distance bounds between the probability distributions of a stochastic integral (It\^o) process with jumps $(X_t)_{t\in [0,T]}$ and a jump-diffusion process $(X^\ast_t)_{t\in [0,T]}$. Our bounds are expressed using the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-12 Jean-Christophe Breton , Nicolas Privault

We propose a transfer principle to study the adapted 2-Wasserstein distance between stochastic processes. First, we obtain an explicit formula for the distance between real-valued mean-square continuous Gaussian processes by introducing the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Yifan Jiang , Fang Rui Lim