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Modeling stochastic traffic dynamics is critical to developing self-driving cars. Because it is difficult to develop first principle models of cars driven by humans, there is great potential for using data driven approaches in developing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Ke Sun , Stephen Chaves , Paul Martin , Vijay Kumar

The combination of high-dimensionality and disparity of time scales encountered in many problems in computational physics has motivated the development of coarse-grained (CG) models. In this paper, we advocate the paradigm of data-driven…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 L. Felsberger , P. S. Koutsourelakis

The emergence dynamics of traffic instability has always attracted particular attention. For several decades, researchers have studied the stability of traffic flow using deterministic traffic models, with less emphasis on the presence of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-11 Marouane Bouadi , Bin Jia , Rui Jiang , Xingang Li , Zi-You Gao

This paper applies a discrete adjoint gradient computation method for a multi-class traffic flow model on road networks. Vehicle classes are characterized by their specific velocity functions, which depend on the total traffic density,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Paola Goatin , Axel Klar , Carmen Mezquita-Nieto

Traffic on a circular road is described by dynamic programming equations associated to optimal control problems. By solving the equations analytically, we derive the relation between the average car density and the average car flow, known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-02-11 Nadir Farhi

Stochastic dynamical systems allow modelling of transitions induced by disturbances, in particular from an attracting equilibrium and crossing the stable manifold of a saddle. In the small-noise limit, the probability of such transitions is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-05 Jiayao Shao , Tobias Grafke , Robert S. MacKay

We consider the problem of minimizing a convex function that is evolving according to unknown and possibly stochastic dynamics, which may depend jointly on time and on the decision variable itself. Such problems abound in the machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Joshua Cutler , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Zaid Harchaoui

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) provide a natural framework for modelling intrinsic stochasticity inherent in many continuous-time physical processes. When such processes are observed in multiple individuals or experimental units,…

Computation · Statistics 2016-05-19 Gavin A. Whitaker , Andrew Golightly , Richard J. Boys , Chris Sherlock

In this study, we develop a stochastic optimal control approach with reinforcement learning structure to learn the unknown parameters appeared in the drift and diffusion terms of the stochastic differential equation. By choosing an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Shuzhen Yang

Modeling nonlinear spatiotemporal dynamical systems has primarily relied on partial differential equations (PDEs). However, the explicit formulation of PDEs for many underexplored processes, such as climate systems, biochemical reaction and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Chengping Rao , Hao Sun , Yang Liu

Stochastic effects significantly influence the dynamics of traffic flows. Many dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) models attempt to capture these effects by prescribing a specific ratio that determines how flow splits across different routes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Lukas Graf , Tobias Harks , Michael Markl

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) are established tools to model physical phenomena whose dynamics are affected by random noise. By estimating parameters of an SDE intrinsic randomness of a system around its drift can be identified…

Computation · Statistics 2012-05-03 Umberto Picchini , Susanne Ditlevsen

Partial differential equations (PDEs) govern nearly every physical process in science and engineering, yet solving them at scale remains prohibitively expensive. Generative AI has transformed language, vision, and protein science, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yilong Dai , Shengyu Chen , Xiaowei Jia , Runlong Yu

We propose a framework for constructing microscopic traffic models from microscopic acceleration patterns that can in principle be experimental measured and proper averaged. The exact model thus obtained can be used to justify the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-04-07 Bo Yang , Xihua Xu , John Z. F. Pang , Christopher Monterola

Advanced measurement techniques and high performance computing have made large data sets available for a wide range of turbulent flows that arise in engineering applications. Drawing on this abundance of data, dynamical models can be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-06 Armin Zare , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Mihailo R. Jovanović

This work develops a rigorous mathematical formulation of proton transport by integrating both deterministic and stochastic perspectives. The deterministic framework is based on the Boltzmann-Fokker-Planck equation, formulated as an…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Andreas E. Kyprianou , Aaron Pim , Tristan Pryer

This contribution compares several different approaches allowing one to derive macroscopic traffic equation directly from microscopic car-following models. While it is shown that some conventional approaches lead to theoretical problems, it…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Dirk Helbing

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful stochastic frameworks for high-dimensional inference and generation. However, existing applications to partial differential equations (PDEs) predominantly rely on physics-informed training…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Yi Bing , Liu Jia , Fu Jinyang , Peng Xiang

Modern vision generators transport a base distribution to data through time-indexed measures, implemented as deterministic flows (ODEs) or stochastic diffusions (SDEs). Despite strong empirical performance, standard flow-matching objectives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Chika Maduabuchi

We continue the development of the theory of pathwise stochastic entropy solutions for scalar conservation laws in $\R^N$ with quasilinear multiplicative ''rough path'' dependence by considering inhomogeneous fluxes and a single rough path…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-07 Pierre-Louis Lions , Benoit Perthame , Panagiotis E. Souganidis