The paper describes flat Hessian metrics on surfaces and their potentials.
problem Understanding Hessian metrics on surfaces.
method Theoretical description and explicit construction using integrable systems.
result Explicit construction of potentials for flat Hessian metrics on surfaces.
The paper studies the smoothness of critical points of variational integrals on Hessian spaces.
problem The study focuses on the regularity of critical points of variational integrals defined on Hessian spaces.
method The approach involves solving a fourth order nonlinear equation and analyzing the Hessian of the critical points.
result Smooth critical points with bounded Hessian are shown to be smooth provided their Hessian has small BMO.
In this paper, we studied integrals involving both real and complex Hessian operators over bounded domain. Poincare type inequalities were proved in both cases which generalized a early results of Trudinger and Wang.
Study equivalence between Hessian and Born structures on tangent bundles.
problem Equivalence between Hessian and Born structures on tangent bundles.
method Analyzing conditions for Hessian structures and integrability of induced almost Born structures.
result Conditions for equivalence between Hessian and Born structures are established.
Develops methods to solve complex and real Hessian equations.
problem Solving complex and real Hessian equations on various domains.
method Introduces an ansatz to reduce PDEs to systems of ODEs, integrating via abelian integrals.
result Constructs entire solutions of arbitrary subcritical phase for dHYM/LYZ and special Lagrangian equations.
Paper solves overdetermined k-Hessian equation in exterior domains.
problem Overdetermined problem for k-Hessian equation in exterior domains. method Combining integral identities and geometric inequalities, derived general monotone formulas.
result Established general monotone formulas for k-admissible solutions. Estimates complex Hessian integral for complex Monge-Ampère equations.
problem Improving classical ABP estimate for complex settings.
method De Giorgi iteration method for complex Monge-Ampère equations.
result Sharp gradient estimates for complex Monge-Ampère equations.
We establish integral formulas and sharp two-sided bounds for the Ricci curvature, mean curvature and second fundamental form on a Riemannian manifold with boundary. As applications, sharp gradient and Hessian estimates are derived for the Dirichlet and Neumann eigenfunctions.
HessFormer enables distributed Hessian computation for large models.
problem Limited Hessian computation for large deep learning models.
method Distributed stochastic Lanczos quadrature algorithm.
result Investigated Hessian spectral density of a 70 billion parameter model.
Affine manifolds linked to integrable equations and geometric structures.
problem Understanding the geometric and algebraic properties of affine manifolds.
method Analyzing the Kahlerian tangent bundle and multi-dimensional consistency of the TED equation.
result Affine manifolds are related to self-dual Einstein spaces and Hessian structures.
In this work we develop Curvature Propagation (CP), a general technique for efficiently computing unbiased approximations of the Hessian of any function that is computed using a computational graph. At the cost of roughly two gradient evaluations, CP can give a rank-1 approximation of the whole Hessian, and can be repe…
Constructs flows on manifolds with small curvature, proving Euclidean topology.
problem Geometric structure of manifolds with unbounded curvature.
method Distance like functions with integral hessian bound, Ricci flows.
result Manifolds with Ricci lower bound, non-negative scalar curvature, bounded entropy, Ahlfors n-regular and small curvature concentration are topologically Euclidean. We obtain a local Sobolev constant estimate for integral Ricci curvature, which enables us to extend several important tools such as the maximal principle, the gradient estimate, the heat kernel estimate and the L2 Hessian estimate to manifolds with integral Ricci lower bounds, without the non-collapsing conditions.
We investigate the short-time expansion of the heat kernel of a Laplace type operator on a compact Riemannian manifold and show that the lowest order term of this expansion is given by the Fredholm determinant of the Hessian of the energy functional on a space of finite energy paths. This is the asymptotic behavior to …
New geometric structures derived from Hessian metrics and tensors.
problem Constructing geometric structures from Hessian metrics and tensors.
method Introduced a family of Hessian metrics and constructed a (1,1)-tensor field. result Derived golden and metallic structures from the tensor field.
Hessian-free (HF) optimization has been successfully used for training deep autoencoders and recurrent networks. HF uses the conjugate gradient algorithm to construct update directions through curvature-vector products that can be computed on the same order of time as gradients. In this paper we exploit this property a…
We establish variational formulas for Ricci upper and lower bounds, as well as a derivative formula for the Ricci curvature. As applications, constant curvature manifolds, Einstein manifolds and Ricci parallel manifolds are identified, respectively, with different integral-differential formulas and semigroup inequaliti…
For the purpose of understanding second-order scalar PDEs and their hydrodynamic integrability, we introduce G-structures that are induced on hypersurfaces of the space of symmetric matrices (interpreted as the fiber of second-order jet space) and are defined by non-degenerate scalar second-order-only (Hessian) PDEs in…
We generalize an inequality of E. Heintze and H. Karcher [8] for the volume of tubes around minimal submanifolds to an inequality based on integral bounds for k-Ricci curvature. Even in the case of a pointwise bound, this generalizes the classical inequality by replacing a sectional curvature bound with a k-Ricci b…
We present a brief but nearly self-contained proof of a formula for the Weil-Petersson Hessian of the geodesic length of a closed curve (either simple or not simple) on a hyperbolic surface. The formula is the sum of the integrals of two naturally defined positive functions over the geodesic, proving convexity of this …
This research analyzes and accelerates score-based diffusion models using discretization and Hessian information.
problem Theoretical foundations and convergence analysis of score-based diffusion models.
method Investigation of various discretization schemes, including Euler, exponential integrators, and midpoint randomization. Proposal of an accelerated sampler based on local linearization method.
result Hessian-based approach achieves faster convergence rates of order $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}\left(\frac{1}{\varepsilon}
ight)$, significantly improving upon vanilla diffusion models.
Proposes a new method for optimizing large-scale models using Nyström approximation of the Hessian.
problem Optimizing non-convex functions like deep learning models using second-order methods.
method Nyström-approximated curvature for stochastic optimization of large-scale empirical risk minimization.
result The proposed method achieves performance competitive with state-of-the-art first-order and stochastic quasi-Newton methods.
Improved neural network ensembles using Stein Variational Newton updates.
problem Lack of efficient second-order information in current ensemble methods.
method Proposes a novel approximate Bayesian inference method integrating Stein Variational Newton updates with scalable Hessian approximations.
result Significantly faster convergence and more accurate posterior distribution approximations.
Recent work has shown great promise in explaining neural network behavior. In particular, feature attribution methods explain which features were most important to a model's prediction on a given input. However, for many tasks, simply knowing which features were important to a model's prediction may not provide enough …
We propose a modular extension of backpropagation for the computation of block-diagonal approximations to various curvature matrices of the training objective (in particular, the Hessian, generalized Gauss-Newton, and positive-curvature Hessian). The approach reduces the otherwise tedious manual derivation of these mat…
HMC with leapfrog integrator mixes faster than MALA under certain smoothness conditions.
problem Analyzing the mixing time of HMC and MALA for sampling from smooth distributions.
method Bounding gradient complexity and leveraging invariance of joint distribution.
result Metropolized HMC with more leapfrog steps outperforms MALA in total variation distance.
Survey of global Calderón-Zygmund inequalities on Riemannian manifolds.
problem Validity and failure of W2,p regularity for Poisson equation solutions. method Various geometric conditions and methods to obtain Lp-Hessian estimates. result Integral inequality may fail even with lower sectional curvature bound.
Algorithm learns non-Gaussian graphical models via Hessian scores and triangular transport.
problem Learning graph structure from non-Gaussian data.
method Score based on integrated Hessian information, coupled with triangular transport map.
result Algorithm successfully recovers graph structure for non-Gaussian data.
The study proves that certain noncompact Hessian manifolds are diffeomorphic to R^n.
problem Characterizing complete noncompact Hessian manifolds with nonnegative Hessian sectional curvature.
method Using a geometric flow on noncompact affine Riemannian manifolds, constructing Hessian metrics, and proving diffeomorphism.
result Complete noncompact Hessian manifolds with nonnegative Hessian sectional curvature are diffeomorphic to R^n if their tangent bundle has maximal volume growth.
New metric for probability measures connects physics and geometry.
problem Developing a new metric for probability measures.
method Transport Hessian metric, formulated dynamical systems.
result Connections to physics equations and mathematical models.
Investigates regularity of solutions to complex Hessian equation.
problem Regularity of solutions to complex Hessian equation.
method Analyzes solutions to Dirichlet problem with specific density condition.
result Establishes conditions for regularity of solutions.
Abstract: Survey on quadratic Hessian equations, their properties, and open problems.
problem Understanding quadratic Hessian equations and their solutions.
method Survey and review of existing research.
result Survey of entire solutions, viscosity solutions, and Hessian estimates.
We present a geometrical framework which incorporates higher derivative corrections to the action of N = 2 vector multiplets in terms of an enlarged scalar manifold which includes a complex deformation parameter. This enlarged space carries a deformed version of special Kahler geometry which we characterise. The holomo…
Paper solves Hessian equations on Kähler manifolds.
problem Solving Hessian equations on Kähler manifolds.
method Combines elementary symmetric functions; provides sufficient and necessary condition.
result Generalizes results for Hessian and Hessian quotient equations.
New Hessian estimates for heat equations on manifolds.
problem Estimating Hessian matrices for heat-type equations on Riemannian manifolds.
method Using Bismut-Stroock Hessian formula, with explicit coefficients and delay/growth rate functions.
result Novel backward weak Harnack inequality and precise pointwise Hessian estimates for eigenfunctions.
Study calculates Hessian of Busemann function on Damek-Ricci spaces.
problem Calculating Hessian of Busemann function on Damek-Ricci spaces.
method Calculates eigenvalues of Hessian and proves positive definiteness.
result Hessian of Busemann function is positive definite.
The paper shows infinitely many components in Floer Hessians space.
problem Understanding the structure of Floer Hessians.
method Proving the existence of infinitely many connected components.
result Proves infinitely many connected components in Floer Hessians space.
The paper quantizes Hessian structures on R^2 using KV-algebras.
problem Quantizing Hessian structures on a 2D space.
method Deformation quantization within Koszul-Vinberg algebras.
result Established links between deformation theory and Hessian geometry.
We prove that, in dimensions greater than 2, the generic metric is not a Hessian metric and find a curvature condition on Hessian metrics in dimensions greater than 3. In particular we prove that the forms used to define the Pontryagin classes in terms of the curvature vanish on a Hessian manifold. By contrast all anal…
Superintegrable systems on curved manifolds found to have Hessian structures.
problem Characterizing superintegrable systems on curved manifolds.
method Identifying and computing Hessian coordinates for superintegrable systems.
result Examples of superintegrable systems in 2D and 3D have natural Hessian coordinates.
Curved Frobenius manifolds link to Hessian metrics in geometry.
problem Understanding curved Frobenius manifolds and their relation to Hessian metrics.
method Analyzing the relationship between curved Frobenius structures and Hessian metrics on spaces with non-vanishing curvature.
result Consistent curved Frobenius structures on constant curvature spaces are linked to Hessian metrics.
New rigidity results for a generalized Ricci-Hessian equation on manifolds.
problem Understanding rigidity in generalized Ricci-Hessian equations on manifolds.
method Proving new rigidity results related to a generalized Ricci-Hessian equation.
result New rigidity results for the generalized Ricci-Hessian equation on Riemannian manifolds.
Study classifies 3D Hessian manifolds, proving their topology.
problem Global topology of 3D Hessian manifolds.
method Proved structure and analyzed Betti numbers.
result Complete topological classification of 3D Hessian manifolds.
Criterion for solvability of complex 2-Hessian equation on compact Kähler manifolds.
problem Solvability of complex 2-Hessian equation on compact Kähler manifolds.
method Nakai--Moishezon-type criterion associated with the complex 2-Hessian equation.
result Criterion equivalent to existence of a smooth 2-admissible representative in complex dimension three.
Establishes a concavity property for positive Hessian quotient operators.
problem Analyzing positive Hessian quotient operators on Riemannian manifolds.
method Proves a special concavity property and a Jacobi inequality.
result Proves a Jacobi inequality for symmetric tensors.
This article is a local analysis of integrable GL(2)-structures of degree 4. A GL(2)-structure of degree n corresponds to a distribution of rational normal cones over a manifold M of dimension (n+1). Integrability corresponds to the existence of many submanifolds that are spanned by lines in the cones. These GL(2)-stru…
Estimates for complex Hessian equations on Hermitian manifolds.
problem Establishing estimates for solutions to complex Hessian equations.
method Using concavity inequality for complex sum-of-Hessian operators.
result Second-order estimates for admissible solutions on Hermitian manifolds.
Derives Hessian estimates for Lagrangian mean curvature equation.
problem Lagrangian mean curvature equation with supercritical phase and bounded second derivatives.
method Derives a priori interior Hessian estimates.
result Hessian estimates for Lagrangian mean curvature equation.