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How the information microscopically processed by individual neurons is integrated and used in organizing the behavior of an animal is a central question in neuroscience. The coherence of neuronal dynamics over different scales has been…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-03-11 Takashi Hayakawa , Tomoki Fukai

The propagation of molecular chaos, a tool of classical kinetic theory, is generalized to apply to quantum systems of distinguishable particles. We prove that the Curie-Weiss model of ferromagnetism propagates molecular chaos and derive the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander David Gottlieb

The theory of Balanced Neural Networks is a very popular explanation for the high degree of variability and stochasticity in the brain's activity. Roughly speaking, it entails that typical neurons receive many excitatory and inhibitory…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-27 James MacLaurin , Pedro Vilanova

The propagation of chaos is a central concept of kinetic theory that serves to relate the equations of Boltzmann and Vlasov to the dynamics of many-particle systems. Propagation of chaos means that molecular chaos, i.e., the stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander David Gottlieb

A new class of particle systems with sequential interaction is proposed to approximate the McKean-Vlasov process that originally arises as the limit of the mean-field interacting particle system. The weighted empirical measure of this…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Kai Du , Yifan Jiang , Xiaochen Li

The notion of propagation of chaos for large systems of interacting particles originates in statistical physics and has recently become a central notion in many areas of applied mathematics. The present review describes old and new methods…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Louis-Pierre Chaintron , Antoine Diez

Information propagation characterizes how input correlations evolve across layers in deep neural networks. This framework has been well studied using mean-field theory, which assumes infinitely wide networks. However, these assumptions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Giuseppe Alessio D'Inverno , Zhiyuan Hu , Leo Davy , Michael Unser , Gianluigi Rozza , Jonathan Dong

We consider spatially extended systems of interacting nonlinear Hawkes processes modeling large systems of neurons placed in Rd and study the associated mean field limits. As the total number of neurons tends to infinity, we prove that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Julien Chevallier , A Duarte , E Löcherbach , G Ost

We develop a limit theory for controlled path-dependent mean field stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) within the semigroup approach of Da Prato and Zabczyk. More precisely, we prove existence results for mean field limits and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-20 David Criens , Moritz Ritter

We study the asymptotic behavior of the normalized maxima of real-valued diffusive particles with mean-field drift interaction. Our main result establishes propagation of chaos: in the large population limit, the normalized maxima behave as…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Nikolaos Kolliopoulos , Martin Larsson , Zeyu Zhang

We quantify the finite size effects in a stochastic network made up of rate neurons, for several kinds of recurrent connectivity matrices. This analysis is performed by means of a perturbative expansion of the neural equations, where the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-07-09 D. Fasoli , O. Faugeras

The dynamics of spatially-structured networks of $N$ interacting stochastic neurons can be described by deterministic population equations in the mean-field limit. While this is known, a general question has remained unanswered: does…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin , Valentin Schmutz , Datong Zhou

A system of interacting multiclass finite-state jump processes is analyzed. The model under consideration consists of a block-structured network with dynamically changing multi-colors nodes. The interaction is local and described through…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Donald A. Dawson , Ahmed Sid-Ali , Yiqiang Q. Zhao

We continue the work of a series of previous studies of a mathematical model that describes the mean-field limit behavior of a homogeneous network of excitatory point spiking neurons. Contrary to other models, here noise is intrinsic to the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-07-20 Guillem Via

In a series of two papers, we investigate the large deviations and asymptotic behavior of stochastic models of brain neural networks with random interaction coefficients. In this first paper, we take into account the spatial structure of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-05 Tanguy Cabana , Jonathan Touboul

In this work, we study the mean field Schr\"odinger problem from a purely probabilistic point of view by exploiting its connection to stochastic control theory for McKean-Vlasov diffusions. Our main result shows that the mean field…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Camilo Hernández , Ludovic Tangpi

We propose a mathematical framework to systematically explore the propagation properties of a class of continuous in time nonlinear neural network models comprising a hierarchy of processing areas, mutually connected according to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Andrea Alamia , Léa Dalliès , Grégory Faye , Rufin Vanrullen

Neurons are spatially extended cells; different parts of a neuron have specific voltage dynamics. Important types of neurons even generate different spikes in different parts of the cell. Neurons' inputs are also often spatially…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-06 Audrey O'Brien Teasley , Gabriel Koch Ocker

In this paper a rigorous proof of the mean field limit for a pedestrian flow model in two dimensions is given by using a probabilistic method. The model under investigation is an interacting particle system coupled to the eikonal equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Li Chen , Simone Göttlich , Qitao Yin

Neurons in the brain communicate with spikes, which are discrete events in time and value. Functional network models often employ rate units that are continuously coupled by analog signals. Is there a qualitative difference implied by these…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-07-20 Christian Keup , Tobias Kühn , David Dahmen , Moritz Helias