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This work is concerned with linear inverse problems where a distributed parameter is known a priori to only take on values from a given discrete set. This property can be promoted in Tikhonov regularization with the aid of a suitable convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Christian Clason , Thi Bich Tram Do

We present a new random walk for uniformly sampling high-dimensional convex bodies. It achieves state-of-the-art runtime complexity with stronger guarantees on the output than previously known, namely in R\'enyi divergence (which implies…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yunbum Kook , Santosh S. Vempala , Matthew S. Zhang

We present a general mechanism to establish the existence of diffusing orbits in a large class of nearly integrable Hamiltonian systems. Our approach relies on successive applications of the `outer dynamics' along homoclinic orbits to a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Marian Gidea , Rafael de la Llave , Tere Seara

The inverse diffusion curve problem focuses on automatic creation of diffusion curve images that resemble user provided color fields. This problem is challenging since the 1D curves have a nonlinear and global impact on resulting color…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Shuang Zhao , Fredo Durand , Changxi Zheng

In the field of Markov models for image generation, the main idea is to learn how non-trivial images are gradually destroyed by a trivial forward Markov dynamics over the large time window $[0,t]$ converging towards pure noise for $t \to +…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-30 Cecile Monthus

These notes focus on the minimization of convex functionals using first-order optimization methods, which are fundamental in many areas of applied mathematics and engineering. The primary goal of this document is to introduce and analyze…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Charles Dossal , Samuel Hurault , Nicolas Papadakis

This paper explores a mathematical technique for deriving dynamical invariants (i.e. constants of motion) in time-dependent gravitational potentials. The method relies on the construction of a canonical transformation that removes the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Jorge Peñarrubia

Optimal mass transport, also known as the earth mover's problem, is an optimization problem with important applications in various disciplines, including economics, probability theory, fluid dynamics, cosmology and geophysics to cite a few.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Said Kerrache , Yasushi Nakauchi

Block coordinate descent is an optimization paradigm that iteratively updates one block of variables at a time, making it quite amenable to big data applications due to its scalability and performance. Its convergence behavior has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Liangzu Peng , René Vidal

The Rytov approximation has been commonly used to obtain reconstructed images for optical tomography. However, the method requires linearization of the nonlinear inverse problem. Here, we demonstrate nonlinear Rytov approximations by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Chi Zhang , Manabu Machida

We develop a cut finite element method (CutFEM) for convection-diffusion problems posed on mixed-dimensional domains, i.e., unions of manifolds of different dimensions arranged in a hierarchical structure where lower-dimensional components…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson , Shantiram Mahata

We introduce and analyze a model for the transport of particles or energy in extended lattice systems. The dynamics of the model acts on a discrete phase space at discrete times but has nonetheless some of the characteristic properties of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Raphael Lefevere

Subdiffusion on graphs is often modeled by time-fractional diffusion equations, yet its structural and dynamical consequences remain unclear. We show that subdiffusive transport on graphs is a memory-driven process generated by a random…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Nikita Deniskin , Ernesto Estrada

Recent decades are put lots of efforts to develop a higher-order scheme for convective terms approximation that is stable and reliable. The idea presented here is that approximation approach has to correspond to the physical phenomenon…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Kiril S. Shterev

Piecewise smooth systems are intensively studied today in many application areas, such as economics, finance, engineering, biology, and ecology. In this work, we consider a class of one-dimensional piecewise linear discontinuous maps with a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Laura Gardini , Davide Radi , Noemi Schmitt , Iryna Sushko , Frank Westerhoff

Diffusion models are powerful tools for sampling from high-dimensional distributions by progressively transforming pure noise into structured data through a denoising process. When equipped with a guidance mechanism, these models can also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Saeed Mohseni-Sehdeh , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi , Tao Yu

Many stochastic processes in the physical and biological sciences can be modelled as Brownian dynamics with multiplicative noise. However, numerical integrators for these processes can lose accuracy or even fail to converge when the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Dominic Phillips , Charles Matthews , Benedict Leimkuhler

On the basis of statistical mechanics of the Q-Ising model, we formulate the Bayesian inference to the problem of inverse halftoning, which is the inverse process of representing gray-scales in images by means of black and white dots. Using…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 Yohei Saika , Jun-ichi Inoue , Hiroyuki Tanaka , Masato Okada

Of primary interest in this paper is the numerical approximation of a time dependent fractional, in space, diffusion equation where the domain is assumed to be nonhomogeneous, having different axial diffusion coefficients. This work is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 T. Catoe , V. J. Ervin

The present article is an exposition of a theory of discrete convex functions on certain graph structures, developed by the author in recent years. This theory is a spin-off of discrete convex analysis by Murota, and is motivated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Hiroshi Hirai