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In a convergence of machine learning and biology, we reveal that diffusion models are evolutionary algorithms. By considering evolution as a denoising process and reversed evolution as diffusion, we mathematically demonstrate that diffusion…

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Deriving evolution equations accounting for both anomalous diffusion and reactions is notoriously difficult, even in the simplest cases. In contrast to normal diffusion, reaction kinetics cannot be incorporated into evolution equations…

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In this paper, we consider a mathematical model for the evolution of neutral genetic diversity in a spatial continuum including mutations, genetic drift and either short range or long range dispersal. The model we consider is the spatial $…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Raphaël Forien

We propose a methodology that combines generative latent diffusion models with physics-informed machine learning to generate solutions of parametric partial differential equations (PDEs) conditioned on partial observations, which includes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Davide Gallon , Philippe von Wurstemberger , Patrick Cheridito , Arnulf Jentzen

Generators of space-time dynamics in bioimaging have become essential to build ground truth datasets for image processing algorithm evaluation such as biomolecule detectors and trackers, as well as to generate training datasets for deep…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-14 Lisa Balsollier , Frédéric Lavancier , Jean Salamero , Charles Kervrann

In recent years, diffusion models trained on equilibrium molecular distributions have proven effective for sampling biomolecules. Beyond direct sampling, the score of such a model can also be used to derive the forces that act on molecular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Michael Plainer , Hao Wu , Leon Klein , Stephan Günnemann , Frank Noé

We develop a continuous mathematical model of population dynamics that describes the sequential emergence of new genotypes under limited resources. The framework models genotype density as a nonlinear flow in mutation space, combining…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-10 Alexander Bratus , Tatiana Yakushkina , Vladimir Posvyanski

The evolution of the full repertoire of proteins encoded in a given genome is mostly driven by gene duplications, deletions, and sequence modifications of existing proteins. Indirect information about relative rates and other intrinsic…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2008-03-25 Jacob Bock Axelsen , Koon-Kiu Yan , Sergei Maslov

Predicting Pandemic evolution involves complex modeling challenges, often requiring detailed discrete mathematics executed on large volumes of epidemiological data. Differential equations have the advantage of offering smooth, well-behaved…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Clara Bender , Abhimanyu Ghosh , Hamed Vakili , Preetam Ghosh , Avik W. Ghosh

We present Bayesian Diffusion Models (BDM), a prediction algorithm that performs effective Bayesian inference by tightly coupling the top-down (prior) information with the bottom-up (data-driven) procedure via joint diffusion processes. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Haiyang Xu , Yu Lei , Zeyuan Chen , Xiang Zhang , Yue Zhao , Yilin Wang , Zhuowen Tu

Diffusion models (DMs) are capable of generating remarkably high-quality samples by iteratively denoising a random vector, a process that corresponds to moving along the probability flow ordinary differential equation (PF ODE).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Liangchen Li , Jiajun He

We study the evolution of sexual and asexual populations in general fitness landscapes. We find deep relations between the mathematics of biological evolution and the formalism of quantum mechanics. We give the general structure of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-20 Ginestra Bianconi , Christoph Rahmede

A class of one-dimensional Fokker-Plank equations having a common stationary solution, which is a power function of the state of the process, was found. We prove that these equations also have generalized self-similar solutions which…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 F. Berezovskaya , G. Karev

Reaction-diffusion equations are widely used as the governing evolution equations for modeling many physical, chemical, and biological processes. Here we derive reaction-diffusion equations to model transport with reactions on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-16 E. Abad , C. N. Angstmann , B. I. Henry , A. V. McGann , F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste

We analyze nonlinear degenerate coupled PDE-PDE and PDE-ODE systems that arise, for example, in the modelling of biofilm growth. One of the equations, describing the evolution of a biomass density, exhibits degenerate and singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Koondanibha Mitra , Stefanie Sonner

In this work we propose a physical model of organismal evolution, where phenotype, organism life expectancy, is directly related to genotype i.e. the stability of its proteins which can be determined exactly in the model. Simulating the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Konstantin B. Zeldovich , Boris E. Shakhnovich , Eugene I. Shakhnovich

Generative models for quantum data pose significant challenges but hold immense potential in fields such as chemoinformatics and quantum physics. Quantum denoising diffusion probabilistic models (QuDDPMs) enable efficient learning of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Quoc Hoan Tran , Koki Chinzei , Yasuhiro Endo , Hirotaka Oshima

This paper is concerned with the analysis of a new stable space-time finite element method (FEM) for the numerical solution of parabolic evolution problems in moving spatial computational domains. The discrete bilinear form is elliptic on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Stephen Edward Moore

In this note, we announce a systematic analysis of continuous dependence on the data in classical spaces for the initial-boundary-value problem of the diffusion equation on the half-line, with data that are not necessarily compatible at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Andreas Chatziafratis , Spyridon Kamvissis

The standard description of Fermi acceleration, developing in a class of time-dependent billiards, is given in terms of a diffusion process taking place in momentum space. Within this framework the evolution of the probability density…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. K. Karlis , F. K. Diakonos , V. Constantoudis