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most citedNumerical Analysis on Neural Network Projected Schemes for Approximating One Dimensional Wasserstein Gradient Flows

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math.NA2026

A Kernel Formula for Kinetic Fokker-Planck Equations

Fuqun Han, Wuchen Li

We derive an explicit one-step kernel formula for the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation. The construction begins with a reference dynamics admitting an explicit transition kernel and…

math.NA2026

Deep Kinetic JKO schemes for Vlasov-Fokker-Planck Equations

Wonjun Lee, Li Wang, Wuchen Li

We introduce a deep neural network-based numerical method for solving kinetic Fokker Planck equations, including both linear and nonlinear cases. Building upon the conservative dis…

stat.ML2026

Accelerated Regularized Wasserstein Proximal Sampling Algorithms

Hong Ye Tan, Stanley Osher, Wuchen Li

We consider sampling from a Gibbs distribution by evolving a finite number of particles using a particular score estimator rather than Brownian motion. To accelerate the particles,…

cs.LG2025

Sparse Transformer Architectures via Regularized Wasserstein Proximal Operator with Prior

Fuqun Han, Stanley Osher, Wuchen Li

In this work, we propose a sparse transformer architecture that incorporates prior information about the underlying data distribution directly into the transformer structure of the…

stat.ML2025

Preconditioned Regularized Wasserstein Proximal Sampling

Hong Ye Tan, Stanley Osher, Wuchen Li

We consider sampling from a Gibbs distribution by evolving finitely many particles. We propose a preconditioned version of a recently proposed noise-free sampling method, governed…

math.OC2025

Simulating Fokker-Planck equations via mean field control of score-based normalizing flows

Mo Zhou, Stanley Osher, Wuchen Li

The Fokker--Planck (FP) equation governs the evolution of densities for stochastic dynamics of physical systems, such as the Langevin dynamics and the Lorenz system. This work simu…

math.OC2025

Accelerated Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms on Discrete States

Bohan Zhou, Shu Liu, Xinzhe Zuo +1

We propose a class of discrete state sampling algorithms based on Nesterov's accelerated gradient method, which extends the classical Metropolis-Hastings (MH) algorithm. The evolut…

math.OC2025

Variational conditional normalizing flows for computing second-order mean field control problems

Jiaxi Zhao, Mo Zhou, Xinzhe Zuo +1

Mean field control (MFC) problems have vast applications in artificial intelligence, engineering, and economics, while solving MFC problems accurately and efficiently in high-dimen…

stat.CO2025

Splitting Regularized Wasserstein Proximal Algorithms for Nonsmooth Sampling Problems

Fuqun Han, Stanley Osher, Wuchen Li

Sampling from nonsmooth target probability distributions is essential in various applications, including the Bayesian Lasso. We propose a splitting-based sampling algorithm for the…

math.NA2024

A Natural Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient Method for Adversarial Neural Network Training on Solving Partial Differential Equations

Shu Liu, Stanley Osher, Wuchen Li

We propose a scalable preconditioned primal-dual hybrid gradient algorithm for solving partial differential equations (PDEs). We multiply the PDE with a dual test function to obtai…

math.OC2024

Gradient-adjusted underdamped Langevin dynamics for sampling

Xinzhe Zuo, Stanley Osher, Wuchen Li

Sampling from a target distribution is a fundamental problem. Traditional Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, such as the unadjusted Langevin algorithm (ULA), derived from…

math.OC2024★ 2 cited

Score-based Neural Ordinary Differential Equations for Computing Mean Field Control Problems

Mo Zhou, Stanley Osher, Wuchen Li

Classical neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are powerful tools for approximating the log-density functions in high-dimensional spaces along trajectories, where neural n…

math.NA2024

Convergence of Noise-Free Sampling Algorithms with Regularized Wasserstein Proximals

Fuqun Han, Stanley Osher, Wuchen Li

In this work, we investigate the convergence properties of the backward regularized Wasserstein proximal (BRWP) method for sampling a target distribution. The BRWP approach can be…

math.NA2024★ 3 cited

Numerical Analysis on Neural Network Projected Schemes for Approximating One Dimensional Wasserstein Gradient Flows

Xinzhe Zuo, Jiaxi Zhao, Shu Liu +2

We provide a numerical analysis and computation of neural network projected schemes for approximating one dimensional Wasserstein gradient flows. We approximate the Lagrangian mapp…

math.PR2024

Fisher information dissipation for time inhomogeneous stochastic differential equations

Qi Feng, Xinzhe Zuo, Wuchen Li

We provide a Lyapunov convergence analysis for time-inhomogeneous variable coefficient stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Three typical examples include overdamped, irrevers…

math.NA2023

Deep JKO: time-implicit particle methods for general nonlinear gradient flows

Wonjun Lee, Li Wang, Wuchen Li

We develop novel neural network-based implicit particle methods to compute high-dimensional Wasserstein-type gradient flows with linear and nonlinear mobility functions. The main i…

math.OC2023★ 3 cited

Primal-Dual Damping algorithms for optimization

X. Zuo, S. Osher, W. Li

We propose an unconstrained optimization method based on the well-known primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) algorithm. We first formulate the optimality condition of the unconstrain…