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Chance-constrained optimization has emerged as a promising framework for managing uncertainties in power systems. This work advances its application to the DC Optimal Power Flow (DC-OPF) model, developing a novel approach to uncertainty…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Tianyang Yi , D. Adrian Maldonado , Anirudh Subramanyam

Despite the success of classical traffic flow (e.g., second-order macroscopic) models and data-driven (e.g., Machine Learning - ML) approaches in traffic state estimation, those approaches either require great efforts for parameter…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-22 Yun Yuan , Zhao Zhang , Xianfeng Terry Yang

The long time dynamics of large particles trapped in two inhomogeneous turbulent shear flows is studied experimentally. Both flows present a common feature, a shear region that separates two colliding circulations, but with different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-02 N Machicoane , M López-Caballero , L Fiabane , J-F Pinton , M Bourgoin , J Burguete , R Volk

With the rapid development of computational techniques and scientific tools, great progress of data-driven analysis has been made to extract governing laws of dynamical systems from data. Despite the wide occurrences of non-Gaussian…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Yubin Lu , Yang Li , Jinqiao Duan

A position-dependent stochastic diffusion model of gating in ion channels is developed by considering the spatial variation of the diffusion coefficient between the closed and open states. It is assumed that a sensor which regulates the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 Samuel Robert Vaccaro

Recent studies on transportation networks have shown that real-time route guidance can inadvertently induce congestion or oscillatory traffic patterns. Nevertheless, such technologies also offer a promising opportunity to manage traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Shaya Garjani , Ashish Cherukuri , Bayu Jayawardhana , Nima Monshizadeh

We present a traffic flow model consisting of a gluing between the Lighthill-Whitham and Richards macroscopic model with a first order microscopic follow the leader model. The basic analytical properties of this model are investigated.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Rinaldo M. Colombo , Francesca Marcellini

Trajectory planning in dense, interactive traffic scenarios presents significant challenges for autonomous vehicles, primarily due to the uncertainty of human driver behavior and the non-convex nature of collision avoidance constraints.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Erik Börve , Nikolce Murgovski , Leo Laine

The dynamical properties of road traffic time series from North-Rhine Westphalian motorways are investigated. The article shows that road traffic dynamics is well described as a persistent stochastic process with two fixed points…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Helge Siegel , Dennis Belomestnyi

In transportation systems (e.g. highways, railways, airports), traffic flows with distinct origin-destination pairs usually share common facilities and interact extensively. Such interaction is typically stochastic due to natural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Li Jin , Yining Wen

Diffusion models (DMs) represent state-of-the-art generative models for continuous inputs. DMs work by constructing a Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) in the input space (ie, position space), and using a neural network to reverse it.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Tianrong Chen , Jiatao Gu , Laurent Dinh , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Joshua Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

Multiscale systems are ubiquitous in science and technology, but are notoriously challenging to simulate as short spatiotemporal scales must be appropriately linked to emergent bulk physics. When expensive high-dimensional dynamical systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Quercus Hernandez , Max Win , Thomas C. O'Connor , Paulo E. Arratia , Nathaniel Trask

It is understood that congestion in traffic can be interpreted in terms of the instability of the equation of dynamic motion. The evolution of a traffic system from an unstable or metastable state to a globally stable state bears a strong…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-06 Wei-Liang Qian , Bin Wang , Kai Lin , Romuel F. Machado , Yogiro Hama

Generative models inspired by dynamical transport of measure -- such as flows and diffusions -- construct a continuous-time map between two probability densities. Conventionally, one of these is the target density, only accessible through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Michael S. Albergo , Mark Goldstein , Nicholas M. Boffi , Rajesh Ranganath , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

We propose a latent score-based generative AI framework for learning stochastic, non-local closure models and constitutive laws in nonlinear dynamical systems of computational mechanics. This work addresses a key challenge of modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Xinghao Dong , Huchen Yang , Jin-Long Wu

This paper formulates a variational approach for treating observational uncertainty and/or computational model errors as stochastic transport in dynamical systems governed by action principles under nonholonomic constraints. For this…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Darryl D Holm , Vakhtang Putkaradze

The goal of the paper is a rigorous derivation of a macroscopic traffic flow model with a bifurcation or a local perturbation from a microscopic one. The microscopic model is a simple follow-the-leader with random parameters. The random…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-16 P Cardaliaguet , N Forcadel

In the Optimal Velocity Model proposed as a new version of Car Following Model, it has been found that a congested flow is generated spontaneously from a homogeneous flow for a certain range of the traffic density. A well-established…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 K. Nakanishi , K. Itoh , Y. Igarashi , M. Bando

This work addresses the problem of learning the dynamics of high-dimensional probability densities over time using unlabeled samples, without assuming access to trajectory information. We introduce two-parameter flows that learn only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Paul Schwerdtner , Tobias Blickhan , Benjamin Peherstorfer

Learning unknown stochastic differential equations (SDEs) from observed data is a significant and challenging task with applications in various fields. Current approaches often use neural networks to represent drift and diffusion functions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Aiqing Zhu , Qianxiao Li