A blob method for diffusion

JA Carrillo, K Craig, FS Patacchini - Calculus of Variations and Partial …, 2019 - Springer
As a counterpoint to classical stochastic particle methods for diffusion, we develop a
deterministic particle method for linear and nonlinear diffusion. At first glance, deterministic …

Aggregation-diffusion equations: dynamics, asymptotics, and singular limits

JA Carrillo, K Craig, Y Yao - Active Particles, Volume 2: Advances in …, 2019 - Springer
Given a large ensemble of interacting particles, driven by nonlocal interactions and localized
repulsion, the mean-field limit leads to a class of nonlocal, nonlinear partial differential …

Primal dual methods for Wasserstein gradient flows

JA Carrillo, K Craig, L Wang, C Wei - Foundations of Computational …, 2022 - Springer
Combining the classical theory of optimal transport with modern operator splitting
techniques, we develop a new numerical method for nonlinear, nonlocal partial differential …

Consensus-based optimization on the sphere: Convergence to global minimizers and machine learning

M Fornasier, L Pareschi, H Huang, P Sünnen - Journal of Machine …, 2021 - jmlr.org
We investigate the implementation of a new stochastic Kuramoto-Vicsek-type model for
global optimization of nonconvex functions on the sphere. This model belongs to the class of …

Consensus-based optimization on hypersurfaces: Well-posedness and mean-field limit

M Fornasier, H Huang, L Pareschi… - Mathematical Models and …, 2020 - World Scientific
We introduce a new stochastic differential model for global optimization of nonconvex
functions on compact hypersurfaces. The model is inspired by the stochastic Kuramoto …

Dataset dynamics via gradient flows in probability space

D Alvarez-Melis, N Fusi - International conference on …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Various machine learning tasks, from generative modeling to domain adaptation, revolve
around the concept of dataset transformation and manipulation. While various methods exist …

On the mean-field limit for the Vlasov–Poisson–Fokker–Planck system

H Huang, JG Liu, P Pickl - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2020 - Springer
We rigorously justify the mean-field limit of an N-particle system subject to Brownian motions
and interacting through the Newtonian potential in R^ 3 R 3. Our result leads to a derivation …

[HTML][HTML] Propagation of chaos for the Keller–Segel equation over bounded domains

RC Fetecau, H Huang, W Sun - Journal of Differential Equations, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper we rigorously justify the propagation of chaos for the parabolic–elliptic Keller–
Segel equation over bounded convex domains. The boundary condition under …

The microscopic derivation and well-posedness of the stochastic Keller–Segel equation

H Huang, J Qiu - Journal of nonlinear science, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, we propose and study a stochastic aggregation–diffusion equation of the
Keller–Segel (KS) type for modeling the chemotaxis in dimensions d= 2, 3 d= 2, 3. Unlike the …

Learning interacting particle systems: Diffusion parameter estimation for aggregation equations

H Huang, JG Liu, J Lu - … Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 2019 - World Scientific
In this paper, we study the parameter estimation of interacting particle systems subject to the
Newtonian aggregation and Brownian diffusion. Specifically, we construct an estimator ν< …