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The study examines the limitations of bi-Lipschitz Normalizing Flows in approximating certain distributions.
problem The expressivity of bi-Lipschitz Normalizing Flows in approximating specific target distributions.
method Characterization of expressivity through lower bounds on Total Variation distance and discussion of potential remedies.
result Several target distributions are difficult to approximate using bi-Lipschitz Normalizing Flows, and lower bounds on their approximation are provided.
ELF simplifies normalizing flows, making them more efficient and universal.
problem Computational inefficiency of normalizing flows.
method ELF introduces a simple, one-layer network with closed-form Lipschitz constants, combining the ease of residual flows with the performance of autoregressive flows.
result ELF is a provably universal density approximator, more efficient computationally and parameter-wise.
The mean curvature flow is the gradient flow of volume functionals on the space of submanifolds. We prove a fundamental regularity result of the mean curvature flow in this paper: a Lipschitz submanifold with small local Lipschitz norm becomes smooth instantly along the mean curvature flow. This generalizes the regular…
A generalization of the Flow-box Theorem is given. The assumption of continuous differentiability of the vector field is relaxed to a local Lipschitz condition. The theorem holds in any Banach space.
We show the existence of a global unique and analytic solution for the mean curvature flow, the surface diffusion flow and the Willmore flow of entire graphs for Lipschitz initial data with small Lipschitz norm. We also show the existence of a global unique and analytic solution to the Ricci-DeTurck flow on euclidean s…
Proves rigidity of maps between manifolds with scalar curvature constraints.
problem Lipschitz rigidity problem in scalar curvature geometry.
method Harmonic map heat flow coupled with Ricci flow.
result Continuous maps between manifolds with scalar curvature constraints are either isometries or have scalar curvature strictly less than the sphere.
We consider the mean curvature flow of entire Lagrangian graphs with Lipschitz continuous initial data. Assuming only a certain bound on the Lipschitz norm of an initial entire Lagrangian graph in R2n, we show that the parabolic equation \eqref{PMA} for the Lagrangian potential has a longtime solution which is sm…
The asymptotic Plateau problem asks for the existence of smooth complete hypersurfaces of constant mean curvature with prescribed asymptotic boundary at infinity in the hyperbolic space Hn+1. The modified mean curvature flow (MMCF) was firstly introduced by Xiao and the second author a few years back, and…
Normalizing flows optimize Jacobian determinant for unique likelihood objective.
problem Optimizing normalizing flows for unique likelihood.
method Showed Jacobian determinant is unique for given distributions, leading to a unique global optimum. Used eigenvalues of auto-correlation matrix for explicit likelihood expression.
result Explicit expression of likelihood for flows, independent of neural network parameterization, with theoretical optimal value.
Flow-based generative models parameterize probability distributions through an invertible transformation and can be trained by maximum likelihood. Invertible residual networks provide a flexible family of transformations where only Lipschitz conditions rather than strict architectural constraints are needed for enforci…
We investigate the ability of popular flow based methods to capture tail-properties of a target density by studying the increasing triangular maps used in these flow methods acting on a tractable source density. We show that the density quantile functions of the source and target density provide a precise characterizat…
We prove the existence of the flow by curvature of regular planar networks starting from an initial network which is non-regular. The proof relies on a monotonicity formula for expanding solutions and a local regularity result for the network flow in the spirit of B. White's local regularity theorem for mean curvature …
In this paper, we prove that if the geodesic flow of a complete manifold without conjugate points with sectional curvatures bounded below by −c2 is of Anosov type, then the constant of contraction of the flow is ≥e−c. Moreover, if M has finite volume, the equality holds if and only if the sectional curvat…
We investigate the existence of weak expanding solutions of the harmonic map flow for maps with values into a smooth closed Riemannian manifold. We prove the existence of such solutions in case the target manifold is isometrically embedded as a hypersurface of some Euclidean space and the initial condition is a Lipschi…
Let M be a complete Riemannian manifold which either is compact or has a pole, and let φ be a positive smooth function on M. In the warped product M×φR, we study the flow by the mean curvature of a locally Lipschitz continuous graph on M and prove that the flow exists for all time an…
We prove that on compact Alexandrov spaces with curvature bounded below the gradient flow of the Dirichlet energy in the L2-space produces the same evolution as the gradient flow of the relative entropy in the L2-Wasserstein space. This means that the heat flow is well defined by either one of the two gradient fl…
We give a new proof of Brakke's partial regularity theorem up to C^{1,ς} for weak varifold solutions of mean curvature flow by utilizing parabolic monotonicity formula, parabolic Lipschitz approximation and blow-up technique. The new proof extends to a general flow whose velocity is the sum of the mean curvature and an…