Compositional diffusion models simulate coupled PDEs efficiently.
problem Efficiently simulating long-horizon coupled PDE systems.
method Diffusion models trained on decoupled data are composed at inference time.
result Compositional diffusion models recover coupled trajectories with low error.
Study on kinetic Langevin diffusions and their couplings, showing subtle TV bounds and new non-Markovian couplings.
problem Understanding and quantifying the TV distance between solutions of kinetic Langevin diffusions with different initial values.
method Established new non-Markovian couplings for kinetic Langevin diffusions, derived from optimal coalescence trajectories, and analyzed their TV bounds.
result No Markovian coupling can capture the asymptotic decay rate of the TV distance between solutions of kinetic Langevin diffusions with different initial values.
A coupling by reflection of a time-inhomogeneous diffusion process on a manifold are studied. The condition we assume is a natural time-inhomogeneous extension of lower Ricci curvature bounds. In particular, it includes the case of backward Ricci flow. As in time-homogeneous cases, our coupling provides a gradient esti…
Unified analytic account of correlation emergence and Epps effect in coupled limit order books
problem Correlation emergence and Epps effect in coupled limit order books
method Discrete random-walk description of order flow with creation, cancellation, and diffusion, coupled reaction-diffusion equations with moving reaction boundary
result Realized correlations as a function of aggregation time
New method designs joint initial noises for diffusion models to improve diversity and alignment.
problem Independent initial noises limit diversity in generated images.
method Coupling of initial noises, maintaining Gaussian distribution while allowing dependence.
result Repulsive Gaussian coupling improves diversity without increasing sampling cost.
Decomposing market impact into diffusive components
problem Market impact scaling
method Decomposing impact into realized and counterfactual returns
result Implication of square-root law in information-neutral regime
DiffObs predicts global precipitation with realistic wave modes and low frequency variations.
problem Predicting global precipitation evolution using satellite observations.
method Autoregressive generative diffusion model trained on satellite data.
result Model generates realistic wave modes and low frequency variations, validating its potential for climate prediction.
Analyzed geometric and diffusion properties of a coupled system.
problem Qualitative behavior of a geometric evolution coupled with diffusion.
method Mean curvature flow scaled with diffusion equation analysis.
result Surface area strictly decreases, but solutions can exist infinitely.
C-DPS improves diffusion posterior sampling for inverse problems without projection or likelihood approximation.
problem Inaccurate and unstable solutions in inverse problems due to complex or high-noise conditions.
method C-DPS introduces a forward stochastic process in measurement space evolving in parallel with data-space diffusion, leading to a closed-form posterior.
result C-DPS consistently outperforms existing methods across multiple inverse problem benchmarks.
We study gradient bounds and other functional inequalities for the diffusion semigroup generated by Kolmogorov type operators. The focus is on two different methods: coupling techniques and generalized Γ-calculus techniques. The advantages and drawbacks of each of these methods are discussed.
Stein's method for measuring convergence to a continuous target distribution relies on an operator characterizing the target and Stein factor bounds on the solutions of an associated differential equation. While such operators and bounds are readily available for a diversity of univariate targets, few multivariate targ…
We review recent quantitative results on the approximation of mean field diffusion equations by large systems of interacting particles, obtained by optimal coupling methods. These results concern a larger range of models, more precise senses of convergence and links with the long time behaviour of the systems to be con…
QDSB accelerates Schrödinger bridge learning with quantized approximations.
problem Learning generative models from unpaired samples.
method Quantized diffusion Schrödinger bridges (QDSB) using anchor-quantized distributions and cell-wise sampling.
result QDSB achieves sample quality similar to existing methods but with significantly less computational time.
Model simulates correlation emergence in two coupled limit order books.
problem Modeling correlation emergence in coupled limit order books.
method Simulated two coupled diffusive limit order books using random walks in the fluid limit, with trader interactions.
result Demonstrated the recovery of an Epps effect from the model.
A coupling method and an analytic one allow us to prove new lower bounds for the spectral gap of reversible diffusions on compact manifolds. Those bounds are based on the a notion of curvature of the diffusion, like the coarse Ricci curvature or the Bakry--Emery curvature-dimension inequalities. We show that when this …
New method uses coupled SDEs to edit images with high fidelity and consistency.
problem Challenges in editing image content with text-to-image models.
method Using coupled stochastic differential equations to guide generative model sampling.
result Achieves high prompt fidelity and near-pixel-level consistency.
DYffusion improves diffusion models for spatiotemporal forecasting.
problem Challenges in generating stable and accurate forecasts for dynamic data.
method Leverages temporal dynamics in data, directly coupling it with diffusion steps.
result Improves computational efficiency and performs competitively on complex dynamics.
Improved NPE with conditional diffusions and summary networks.
problem Approximating complex posterior distributions efficiently and accurately.
method Conditional diffusions coupled with high-capacity summary networks.
result Conditional diffusions offer improved stability, accuracy, and faster training times.
Chaos in cerebellar cells enhances complexity of neural patterns.
problem Understanding how cerebellar granular layer represents complex information.
method Constructed a model of cerebellar granular layer with gap junctions, evaluated using reservoir computing.
result Chaotic dynamics in the cerebellar granular layer produce complex and diverse output patterns.
Deep learning solves non-Markovian FBSDEs for utility maximization.
problem Solving utility maximization problems under rough volatility.
method Deep learning-based numerical methods for non-Markovian fully coupled FBSDEs.
result Error estimates and convergence provided for the deep learning approach.
Based on a study of the coupling by reflection of diffusion processes, a new monotonicity in time of a time-dependent transportation cost between heat distribution is shown under Bakry-Emery's curvature-dimension condition on a Riemannian manifold. The cost function comes from the total variation between heat distribut…
We develop theory and computational methods to investigate particle inclusions embedded within curved lipid bilayer membranes. We consider the case of spherical lipid vesicles where inclusion particles are coupled through (i) intramembrane hydrodynamics, (ii) traction stresses with the external and trapped solvent flui…
HyFAD improves time series imputation by combining time and frequency diffusion.
problem Improve time series imputation by handling frequency-sensitive denoising and balancing global and local dynamics.
method HyFAD is a hybrid time-frequency diffusion model with frequency-aware embedding, built on DDPM paradigm.
result HyFAD achieves state-of-the-art performance in time series imputation.
Based on a new coupling approach, we prove that the transition step of the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm is contractive w.r.t. a carefully designed Kantorovich (L1 Wasserstein) distance. The lower bound for the contraction rate is explicit. Global convexity of the potential is not required, and thus multimodal targ…
ANODEV2 extends Neural ODEs to include evolving parameters.
problem Training and accuracy of neural networks.
method Coupled ODE-based framework for evolving neural network parameters.
result ANODEV2 achieves higher accuracy than baseline models and Neural ODEs.
Augmented bridge matching preserves coupling information between distributions.
problem Preserving the original empirical pairing in flow and bridge matching processes.
method Augmenting the velocity field with initial sample point information.
result Simple modification recovers coupling information without losing Markovian property.
We derive a diffusion approximation for the kinetic Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation in bounded spatial domains with specular reflection type boundary conditions. The method of proof involves the construction of a particular class of test functions to be chosen in the weak formulation of the kinetic model. This involves t…
This work introduces a new method for coupling base and target densities in generative models.
problem Generating samples from complex target distributions using simple base distributions.
method Developed a framework of stochastic interpolants with data-dependent couplings.
result Constructing dynamical transport maps that serve as conditional generative models.
Diffusion-QL uses diffusion models to improve offline RL performance.
problem Offline RL struggles with function approximation errors on out-of-distribution actions.
method Diffusion-QL represents the policy as a conditional diffusion model and optimizes action-values.
result Diffusion-QL achieves state-of-the-art performance on D4RL benchmark tasks.
SJDs unify masked, continuous, and hybrid diffusion models.
problem Unified modeling of diffusion processes.
method Continuous-time Markov processes with token embeddings and hazard rates.
result Unified model recovers masked, continuous, and hybrid diffusion as limits.
In this paper we will give a new proof of the monotonicity of Wasserstein distances of two diffusions under super Ricci flow. Our proof is based on the coupling method of B.Andrew and J.Clutterbuck. The same method can also be applied to the contractivity of normalized L-Wasserstein distance under backward Ricci flow.
This work extends entropic optimal transport to non-product reference couplings, focusing on Gaussian cases.
problem Finding a diffuse coupling between two measures with non-product reference couplings.
method Reduction of the entropic optimal transport problem to a matrix optimization problem.
result Complete description of the solution for non-product reference couplings, including primal and dual variables.
New formulas derived for scalar curvature in generalized Ricci flow.
problem Scalar curvature in generalized Ricci flow.
method Derivation of weighted scalar curvature monotonicity formulas and Perelman-type energy/entropy formulas.
result New convex Nash entropies and pseudolocality principles.
Improved sampling in generative models using CLDs with a hyperparameter.
problem Improving sampling performance in generative models.
method Extending Critically-damped Langevin Diffusions with a hyperparameter to control noise.
result Derivation of a novel upper bound on Wasserstein sampling error.
BM2 learns Schrödinger bridges using neural networks.
problem Learning dynamic transport maps between two distributions.
method Coupled Bridge Matching (BM2) with neural networks. result Preliminary theoretical analysis and numerical experiments show BM2's effectiveness. Study interbank lending and borrowing dynamics with heterogeneous mean field model.
problem Modeling systemic risk in a network of banks with varying capitalization.
method Developed a mean field type model with coupled diffusions to describe log-capitalization evolution.
result Existence of Nash equilibria in large-scale heterogeneous interbank networks.
FDBM models use fractional Brownian motion to model complex stochastic processes.
problem Capturing memory effects and long-range dependencies in stochastic processes.
method Developed a generative diffusion bridge framework using a Markovian approximation of fractional Brownian motion.
result FDBM outperforms standard models in predicting future states and unpaired data translation.
CDS combines PT and diffusion for efficient sampling from multimodal distributions.
problem Sampling from unnormalized multimodal distributions efficiently.
method Conditional Diffusion Sampling (CDS) using Conditional Interpolants and Parallel Tempering.
result CDS achieves a superior trade-off between sample quality and density evaluation cost.
Turbo-DDCM speeds up zero-shot image compression.
problem Slowness and high computational demand in zero-shot diffusion-based compression.
method Modified DDCM framework with Turbo-DDCM, combining noise vectors and improved encoding.
result Turbo-DDCM achieves faster compression than state-of-the-art methods.
Improved generative models using critically-damped Langevin diffusion.
problem Current score-based generative models (SGMs) use overly simplistic diffusion processes, leading to complex denoising tasks and suboptimal performance.
method Proposed a novel critically-damped Langevin diffusion (CLD) and derived a score matching objective and sampling scheme.
result CLD-based SGMs achieve superior performance in synthesis quality compared to previous methods.
Enhances deep networks robustness with data mollification and label smoothing.
problem Improving deep neural networks' robustness against corruptions.
method Coupling data mollification (image noising and blurring) with label smoothing.
result Improved robustness and uncertainty quantification on corrupted image benchmarks.
New method improves sampling efficiency in complex stochastic systems.
problem Sampling efficiency in nonconvex stochastic gradient cases.
method Reflection coupling for unadjusted generalized Hamiltonian Monte Carlo.
result Quantitative Gaussian concentration bounds and convergence rates established.
Paper solves MV portfolio selection in jump-diffusion models with no-shorting constraint.
problem Mean-variance portfolio selection in jump-diffusion model with no-shorting constraint.
method Reduces problem to LQ control and finding a maximal point of a function, constructs viscosity solution.
result Explicit viscosity solution to Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, optimal controls derived.
The paper proves sampling methods using discrete-time processes and information theory.
problem Proving convergence guarantees for diffusion-based sampling methods.
method Directly works with discrete-time stochastic processes and uses information theory.
result Discrepancy between sampling and comparison processes is bounded using information theory.
Unified analysis of KL divergence using shifted composition for sampling.
problem Sampling from target distributions with KL divergence guarantees.
method Shifted composition rule applied to KL divergence, combining local error analysis and Girsanov's theorem.
result Unified KL guarantees for strongly log-concave, weakly log-concave, and log-Sobolev distributions.
New method improves BLL models for complex datasets.
problem Limited expressive capacity of Gaussian priors in BLL models.
method Combines diffusion techniques and implicit priors for variational learning.
result Enhanced predictive accuracy and uncertainty quantification.
The coupled system, where one is a degenerate parabolic equation and the other has not a diffusion term arises in the modeling of European options with liquidity shocks. Two implicit-explicit (IMEX) schemes that preserve the positivity of the differential problem solution are constructed and analyzed. Numerical experim…
By using a coupling method, an explicit log-Harnack inequality with local geometry quantities is established for (sub-Markovian) diffusion semigroups on a Riemannian manifold (possibly with boundary). This inequality as well as the consequent L2-gradient inequality, are proved to be equivalent to the pointwise curva…