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48 results for flow method

New method shortens and straightens curves, proving convergence and well-posedness.

problem Shortening and straightening of curves.
method Conceptual shift in curve shortening to tangent aligning, variational study of geometric flows.
result Proves convergence to a straight line and global well-posedness for various geometric flows.

Improved sampling method using regularized Stein Variational Gradient Flow.

problem Improving the accuracy of sampling methods in machine learning.
method Proposed Regularized Stein Variational Gradient Flow to interpolate between SVGD and Wasserstein Gradient Flow.
result Established theoretical properties and provided preliminary numerical evidence of improved performance.

New method constructs Birkhoff sections for pseudo-Anosov flows with controlled complexity.

problem Constructing Birkhoff sections for pseudo-Anosov flows with specific properties.
method Uses connection between pseudo-Anosov flows and veering triangulations to explicitly construct sections with controlled complexity.
result Shows that any transitive pseudo-Anosov flow has a Birkhoff section with two boundary components.

By the method of discrete Morse flows, we construct an energy reducing multiple-valued function flow. The flow we get is Holder continuous with respect to the L-2 norm. We also give another way of constructing flows in some special cases, where the flow we get behaves like ordinary heat flow.

2006-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Method learns PDE dynamics via evolving latent manifold using Ricci flow.

problem Learning dynamics in time, especially PDEs, with low-dimensional representations.
method Parameterizes latent manifold, simulates Ricci flow physics-informedly, matching manifold quantities.
result Ricci flow facilitates learning for out-of-distribution data and adversarial robustness.

Proposes a new method for high-dimensional density estimation.

problem Estimating high-dimensional probability density functions efficiently.
method Tensorizing flow method combining tensor-train and flow-based generative modeling.
result Efficiently constructs an approximate density in tensor-train form and trains a flow model to match empirical distribution.

In general, gradient estimates are very important and necessary for deriving convergence results in different geometric flows, and most of them are obtained by analytic methods. In this paper, we will apply a stochastic approach to systematically give gradient estimates for some important geometric quantities under the…

2013-12-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider four extended Ricci flow systems---that is, Ricci flow coupled with other geometric flows---and prove dynamical stability of certain classes of stationary solutions of these flows. The systems include Ricci flow coupled with harmonic map flow (studied abstractly and in the context of Ricci flow on warped pr…

2013-01-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Localizes curvature estimates for evolving hypersurfaces under various flows.

problem Establishing curvature estimates for evolving hypersurfaces under different flow conditions.
method Adapted localization of Huisken--Stampacchia iteration method to fully nonlinear flows.
result Asymptotically sharp curvature pinching estimates for general flows.

New error bounds for flow matching methods using deterministic sampling.

problem Improving the accuracy of flow matching methods for generating probability distributions.
method Derived error bounds for flow matching methods under deterministic sampling conditions.
result Presented error bounds for flow matching methods using L2L^2 loss and regularity conditions.

New method reduces discrete flow transitions, improving perplexity estimation.

problem Stochasticity in discrete paths makes rectification strategies ineffective.
method Dynamic-optimal-transport-like minimization objective with minibatch strategies.
result 32 times reduction in transitions for same perplexity.

A new method speeds up sampling of Boltzmann distribution in high-dimensional systems.

problem High computational cost of obtaining Jacobian of flow-based models in high dimensions.
method Flow perturbation method that incorporates stochastic perturbations and reweighting.
result Achieves unbiased sampling of Boltzmann distribution with orders of magnitude speedup.

In many fields of science, high-dimensional integration is required. Numerical methods have been developed to evaluate these complex integrals. We introduce the code i-flow, a python package that performs high-dimensional numerical integration utilizing normalizing flows. Normalizing flows are machine-learned, bijectiv…

2020-01-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Flow-based generative models are a family of exact log-likelihood models with tractable sampling and latent-variable inference, hence conceptually attractive for modeling complex distributions. However, flow-based models are limited by density estimation performance issues as compared to state-of-the-art autoregressive…

2019-05-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Study of twisted Calabi flow connecting J-flow and Calabi flow on Kähler manifolds.

problem Existence and convergence of twisted Calabi flow on compact Kähler manifolds.
method Analysis of a family of twisted Calabi flows connecting J-flow and Calabi flow, showing long-time existence and convergence to cscK metrics.
result Long-time existence and convergence of twisted Calabi flow to cscK metrics, implying openness of continuity method.

Paper introduces geometry-aware normalizing flows for improved causal inference.

problem Disparity between sample and population distributions in causal inference.
method Integrates continuous normalizing flows with parametric submodels, employing Wasserstein gradient flows and optimal transport.
result Significantly reduces parameter estimation bias and variance in finite-sample settings.

RC flow learns molecular kinetics in low dimensions.

problem Discovering interpretable low-dimensional models of molecular kinetics.
method Normalizing flow for coordinate transformation and Brownian dynamics for kinetics approximation.
result Tractable and trainable model of reduced kinetics in continuous time and space.

A new method for normalizing flows using stochastic interpolants simplifies likelihood estimation and improves efficiency.

problem Efficient and scalable likelihood estimation for complex probability distributions.
method Inference of velocity field from time-dependent density interpolating between base and target densities.
result Simplified quadratic loss for velocity estimation, leading to faster and more efficient training.

A new method for Gaussian filtering using gradient flows and Wasserstein metrics.

problem Approximating Gaussian and mixture-of-Gaussians filtering for complex systems.
method Variational approximation via gradient-flow representation on Wasserstein metric space.
result Competitive performance in posterior representation and parameter estimation for systems with multiplicative noise and multi-modal distributions.

This paper studies a training method to jointly estimate an energy-based model and a flow-based model, in which the two models are iteratively updated based on a shared adversarial value function. This joint training method has the following traits. (1) The update of the energy-based model is based on noise contrastive…

2019-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

We study some estimates along the Kahler Ricci flow on Fano manifolds. Using these estimates, we show the convergence of Kahler Ricci flow directly if the αα-invariant of the canonical class is greater than nn+1\frac{n}{n+1}. Applying these convergence theorems, we can give a flow proof of Calabi conjecture on such Fano…

2008-09-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The study examines the long-term behavior of mean curvature flows in closed 3-manifolds.

problem Understanding the long-term behavior of mean curvature flows in closed 3-manifolds.
method The approach involves constructing piecewise almost regular flows and applying perturbative arguments.
result The study constructs minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds via parabolic methods.

Paper explores Fisher-Rao gradient flows and their kernel approximations.

problem Understanding and analyzing approximations of Fisher-Rao gradient flows.
method Rigorous investigation of Fisher-Rao and Wasserstein type gradient flows, focusing on kernel approximations.
result Proves evolutionary Γ-convergence for kernel-approximated Fisher-Rao flows, providing theoretical guarantees.

New method shows pseudo-Anosov flows on graph manifolds can be simplified.

problem Understanding pseudo-Anosov flows on graph manifolds.
method Constructing a partial Birkhoff section with genus one components that misses finitely many closed orbits.
result Every pseudo-Anosov flow on a graph manifold is almost equivalent to a totally periodic flow or a suspension Anosov flow.

Improved stock price prediction model using generalized order flow imbalance.

problem Improving stock price prediction models using new order flow imbalance indicators.
method Proposed a generalized order flow imbalance construction method and applied it to CSI 500 stocks.
result Generalized Stationarized Order Flow Imbalance (log-GOFI) shows significant improvement in explaining stock price changes.

We convert deterministic flow models to stochastic samplers.

problem Deterministic flow models are sensitive to errors and cannot condition on intermediate states.
method Transform ODEs into SDEs with the same marginal distributions.
result Empirically outperforms deterministic samplers and controls generation diversity.

New Ricci flow solutions found with rotational symmetry and cone-like singularities.

problem Finding Ricci flow solutions with specific symmetry and singularity properties.
method Rotationally symmetric Ricci flow with scaling-invariant curvature bounds, using approximation method.
result Complete Ricci flow solution with cone-like singularity at the origin.

The rectified flow method is analyzed for its statistical properties.

problem Theoretical support for rectified flow methods is lacking.
method Empirical analysis of rectified flow's statistical properties using regression and density estimation.
result Convergence rates for rectified flow estimators are faster than for nonparametric regression and density estimation.