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Mesoscopic models of finite-size neuronal populations are crucial to understand the dynamics of neural networks in the brain, especially their fluctuations and response to stimuli. However, current theories to derive such models are based…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-26 Nils E. Greven , Jonas Ranft , Tilo Schwalger

As an enhanced version of existing results on Kac's propagation of chaos, which describes the convergence of mean-field particle systems to a system of independent McKean-Vlasov particles as the number of particles tends to infinity, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Xiao-Yu Zhao

We prove propagation of chaos in the Random field mean-field Ising model, also known ad the Random field Curie-Weiss model. We show that in the paramagnetic phase, i.e.\ in the regime where temperature and distribution of the external field…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Matthias Löwe , Zakhar Kabluchko

Collective chaos is shown to emerge, via a period-doubling cascade, from quasiperiodic partial synchronization in a population of identical inhibitory neurons with delayed global coupling. This system is thoroughly investigated by means of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-09 Diego Pazó , Ernest Montbrió

Consistency and predictability of brain functionalities depend on reproducible activity of a single neuron. We identify a reproducible non-chaotic neuronal phase where deviations between concave response latency profiles of a single neuron…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-05-27 Hagar Marmari , Roni Vardi , Ido Kanter

We study the solutions of a McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equation (SDE) driven by a Poisson process. In neuroscience, this SDE models the mean field limit of a system of $N$ interacting excitatory neurons with $N$ large. Each…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Romain Veltz

We consider a system of classical Brownian particles interacting via a smooth long-range potential in the mean-field regime, and we analyze the propagation of chaos in form of sharp, uniform-in-time estimates on many-particle correlation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Armand Bernou , Mitia Duerinckx

We consider backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) with mean-field and McKean-Vlasov interactions in their generators in a general setting, where the drivers are square-integrable martingales, with a focus on the independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Antonis Papapantoleon , Alexandros Saplaouras , Stefanos Theodorakopoulos

The processes of interplant competition within a field are still poorly understood. However, they explain a large part of the heterogeneity in a field and may have longer-term consequences, especially in mixed stands. Modeling can help to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Antonin Della Noce , Amélie Mathieu , Paul-Henry Cournède

Nowadays, neural networks are widely used in many applications as artificial intelligence models for learning tasks. Since typically neural networks process a very large amount of data, it is convenient to formulate them within the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-10 M. Herty , T. Trimborn , G. Visconti

We combine Riemannian geometry with the mean field theory of high dimensional chaos to study the nature of signal propagation in generic, deep neural networks with random weights. Our results reveal an order-to-chaos expressivity phase…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-22 Ben Poole , Subhaneil Lahiri , Maithra Raghu , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein , Surya Ganguli

We introduce a model of randomly connected neural populations and study its dynamics by means of the dynamical mean-field theory and simulations. Our analysis uncovers a rich phase diagram, featuring high- and low-dimensional chaotic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Łukasz Kuśmierz , Ulises Pereira-Obilinovic , Zhixin Lu , Dana Mastrovito , Stefan Mihalas

We consider multi-class systems of interacting nonlinear Hawkes processes modeling several large families of neurons and study their mean field limits. As the total number of neurons goes to infinity we prove that the evolution within each…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Susanne Ditlevsen , Eva Löcherbach

This paper is devoted to the study of propagation of chaos and mean-field limits for systems of indistinguable particles, undergoing collision processes. The prime examples we will consider are the many-particle jump processes of Kac and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-24 Stéphane Mischler , Clément Mouhot

In this paper, we study graphon mean field games using a system of forward-backward stochastic differential equations. We establish the existence and uniqueness of solutions under two different assumptions and prove the stability with…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Erhan Bayraktar , Ruoyu Wu , Xin Zhang

Describing the collective dynamics of large neural populations using low-dimensional models for averaged variables has long been an attractive task in theoretical neuroscience. Recently developed reduction methods make it possible to derive…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-27 Viktoras Pyragas , Kestutis Pyragas

Sequential propagation of chaos (SPoC) is a recently developed tool to solve mean-field stochastic differential equations and their related nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations. Based on the theory of SPoC, we present a new method (deepSPoC)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Kai Du , Yongle Xie , Tao Zhou , Yuancheng Zhou

Mean-field theory is a powerful tool for studying large neural networks. However, when the system is composed of a few neurons, macroscopic differences between the mean-field approximation and the real behavior of the network can arise.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-28 Diego Fasoli , Anna Cattani , Stefano Panzeri

We develop a unified theory that encompasses the macroscopic dynamics of recurrent interactions of binary units within arbitrary network architectures. Using the martingale theory, our mathematical analysis provides a complete description…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Farzad Farkhooi , Wilhelm Stannat

We consider a general McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equation driven by a rotationally invariant $\alpha$-stable process on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $\alpha \in (1,2)$. We assume that the diffusion coefficient is the identity matrix and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Thomas Cavallazzi