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Score-based generative modeling with probability flow ordinary differential equations (ODEs) has achieved remarkable success in a variety of applications. While various fast ODE-based samplers have been proposed in the literature and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-12 Xuefeng Gao , Lingjiong Zhu

In this paper, we introduce a Homogeneous Second-Order Descent Method (HSODM) using the homogenized quadratic approximation to the original function. The merit of homogenization is that only the leftmost eigenvector of a gradient-Hessian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Chuwen Zhang , Dongdong Ge , Chang He , Bo Jiang , Yuntian Jiang , Chenyu Xue , Yinyu Ye

In 1994, Nessyahu, Tadmor and Tassa studied convergence rates of monotone finite volume approximations of conservation laws. For compactly supported, $\Lip^+$-bounded initial data they showed a first-order convergence rate in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Adrian Montgomery Ruf , Espen Sande , Susanne Solem

In this paper, we present a novel second order in time mixed finite element scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations with matched densities. The scheme combines a standard second order Crank-Nicholson method for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-09 Amanda E. Diegel , Cheng Wang , Xiaoming Wang , Steven M. Wise

We reveal a precise mathematical framework about a new family of generative models which we call Gradient Flow Drifting. With this framework, we prove an equivalence between the recently proposed Drifting Model and the Wasserstein gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jiarui Cao , Zixuan Wei , Yuxin Liu

We present an optimal rate convergence analysis for a second order accurate in time, fully discrete finite difference scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) system, combined with logarithmic Flory-Huggins energy potential. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Wenbin Chen , Jianyu Jing , Qianqian Liu , Cheng Wang , Xiaoming Wang

This work provides the first convergence analysis for the Randomized Block Coordinate Descent method for minimizing a function that is both H\"older smooth and block H\"older smooth. Our analysis applies to objective functions that are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Leandro Farias Maia , David Huckleberry Gutman

Ranking distributions according to a stochastic order has wide applications in diverse areas. Although stochastic dominance has received much attention, convex order, particularly in general dimensions, has yet to be investigated from a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-15 Jakwang Kim , Young-Heon Kim , Yuanlong Ruan , Andrew Warren

Currently existing energy-stable parametric finite element methods for surface diffusion flow and other flows are usually limited to first-order accuracy in time. Designing a high-order algorithm for geometric flows that can also be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Meng Li , Yihang Guo , Jingjiang Bi

In this paper we devise and analyze an unconditionally stable, second-order-in-time numerical scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation in two and three space dimensions. We prove that our two-step scheme is unconditionally energy stable and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-20 Amanda E. Diegel , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise

We investigate proximal descent methods, inspired by the minimizing movement scheme introduced by Jordan, Kinderlehrer and Otto, for optimizing entropy-regularized functionals on the Wasserstein space. We establish linear convergence under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Razvan-Andrei Lascu , Mateusz B. Majka , David Šiška , Łukasz Szpruch

Combining the classical theory of optimal transport with modern operator splitting techniques, we develop a new numerical method for nonlinear, nonlocal partial differential equations, arising in models of porous media, materials science,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Jose A. Carrillo , Katy Craig , Li Wang , Chaozhen Wei

Generative modelling has seen significant advances through simulation-free paradigms such as Flow Matching, and in particular, the MeanFlow framework, which replaces instantaneous velocity fields with average velocities to enable efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yang Cao , Yubin Chen , Zhao Song , Jiahao Zhang

Explicit calculations in dimension one show for Schur stable autoregressive processes with standard Gaussian noise that the ergodic convergence in the Wasserstein-$2$ distance is essentially given by the sum of the mean, which decays…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Gerardo Barrera , Paulo Henrique da Costa , Michael A. Högele

We provide improved convergence rates for various \emph{non-smooth} optimization problems via higher-order accelerated methods. In the case of $\ell_\infty$ regression, we achieves an $O(\epsilon^{-4/5})$ iteration complexity, breaking the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Brian Bullins , Richard Peng

Lax-Wendroff flux reconstruction (LWFR) schemes have high order of accuracy in both space and time despite having a single internal time step. Here, we design a Jacobian-free LWFR type scheme to solve the special relativistic hydrodynamics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Sujoy Basak , Arpit Babbar , Harish Kumar , Praveen Chandrashekar

We develop a new Riemannian descent algorithm that relies on momentum to improve over existing first-order methods for geodesically convex optimization. In contrast, accelerated convergence rates proved in prior work have only been shown to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Foivos Alimisis , Antonio Orvieto , Gary Bécigneul , Aurelien Lucchi

In this work, we study the Wasserstein gradient flow of the Riesz energy defined on the space of probability measures. The Riesz kernels define a quadratic functional on the space of measure which is not in general geodesically convex in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Siwan Boufadène , François-Xavier Vialard

A consequent approach is proposed to construct symplectic force-gradient algorithms of arbitrarily high orders in the time step for precise integration of motion in classical and quantum mechanics simulations. Within this approach the basic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Igor Omelyan , Ihor Mryglod , Reinhard Folk

Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao (WFR) gradient flows have been recently proposed as a powerful sampling tool that combines the advantages of pure Wasserstein (W) and pure Fisher-Rao (FR) gradient flows. Existing algorithmic developments implicitly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-02 Francesca Romana Crucinio , Sahani Pathiraja