English
Related papers

Related papers: A mean-field model with discontinuous coefficients…

200 papers

Many physical systems -- such as optical waveguide lattices and dense neuronal or vascular networks -- can be modeled by metric graphs, where slender "wires" (edges) support wave or diffusion equations subject to Kirchhoff conditions at the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Sidney Holden , Geoffrey Vasil

In the mean field integrate-and-fire model, the dynamics of a typical neuron within a large network is modeled as a diffusion-jump stochastic process whose jump takes place once the voltage reaches a threshold. In this work, the main goal…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Jian-Guo Liu , Ziheng Wang , Yantong Xie , Yuan Zhang , Zhennan Zhou

In the mean field integrate-and-fire model, the dynamics of a typical neuron within a large network is modeled as a diffusion-jump stochastic process whose jump takes place once the voltage reaches a threshold. In this work, the main goal…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Jian-Guo Liu , Ziheng Wang , Yantong Xie , Yuan Zhang , Zhennan Zhou

A nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation is obtained in the continuous limit of a one-dimensional lattice with an energy landscape of wells and barriers. Interaction is possible among particles in the same energy well. A parameter $\gamma$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 G. Suárez , M. Hoyuelos , H. Mártin

We study the problem of reconstructing interaction kernels in systems of interacting agents from macroscopic measurements when posed as an optimization problem. The reconstruction procedure depends on the formulation of the forward model,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Peiyi Chen , Qin Li , Li Wang , Yunan Yang

We consider large systems of stochastic interacting particles through discontinuous kernels which has vision geometrical constrains. We rigorously derive a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck type of kinetic mean-field equation from the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-12 Young-Pil Choi , Samir Salem

In this paper we study the hydrodynamic limit for a stochastic process describing the time evolution of the membrane potentials of a system of neurons with spatial dependency. We do not impose on the neurons mean-field type interactions.…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-14 Aline Duarte , Guilherme Ost , Andrés Rodríguez

We study a Fokker-Planck equation modelling the firing rates of two interacting populations of neurons. This model arises in computational neuroscience when considering, for example, bistable visual perception problems and is based on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-19 José Antonio Carrillo , Stéphane Cordier , Simona Mancini

Mean field theory is a device to analyze the collective behavior of a dynamical system comprising many interacting particles. The theory allows to reduce the behavior of the system to the properties of a handful of parameters. In neural…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-10 Giancarlo La Camera

Understanding deep neural networks (DNNs) is a key challenge in the theory of machine learning, with potential applications to the many fields where DNNs have been successfully used. This article presents a scaling limit for a DNN being…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Dyego Araújo , Roberto I. Oliveira , Daniel Yukimura

In this paper, we study the long time behaviour of the Fokker-Planck and the kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with many body interaction, more precisely with interaction defined by U-statistics, whose macroscopic limits are often called…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Mohamed Alfaki Ag Aboubacrine Assadeck

In this work, we study the convergence of the empirical measure of moderately interacting particle systems with singular interaction kernels. First, we prove quantitative convergence of the time marginals of the empirical measure of…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Christian Olivera , Alexandre Richard , Milica Tomasevic

There has been a great deal of recent interest in learning and approximation of functions that can be expressed as expectations of a given nonlinearity with respect to its random internal parameters. Examples of such representations include…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Tanya Veeravalli , Maxim Raginsky

This work focuses on the mean field stochastic partial differential equations with nonlinear kernels. We first prove the existence and uniqueness of strong and weak solutions for mean field stochastic partial differential equations in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Wei Hong , Shihu Li , Wei Liu

We consider a particle system with a mean-field-type interaction perturbed by some common and individual noises. When the interacting kernels are sublinear and only locally Lipschitz-continuous, relying on arguments based on the tightness…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Angelo Rosello

We study a stochastic system of interacting neurons and its metastable properties. The system consists of $N$ neurons, each spiking randomly with rate depending on its membrane potential. At its spiking time, the neuron potential is reset…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-09 Eva Löcherbach , Pierre Monmarché

Neural networks with a large number of parameters admit a mean-field description, which has recently served as a theoretical explanation for the favorable training properties of "overparameterized" models. In this regime, gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-28 Grant Rotskoff , Samy Jelassi , Joan Bruna , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

This paper introduces a system of stochastic differential equations (SDE) of mean-field type that models pedestrian motion. The system lets the pedestrians spend time at, and move along, walls, by means of sticky boundaries and boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Alexander Aurell , Boualem Djehiche

We discuss the construction and approximation of solutions to a nonlinear McKean-Vlasov equation driven by a singular self-excitatory interaction of the mean-field type. Such an equation is intended to describe an infinite population of…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-26 F. Delarue , J. Inglis , S. Rubenthaler , E. Tanré

In this paper, we study a two-species model in the form of a coupled system of nonlinear stochastic differential equations (SDEs) that arises from a variety of applications such as aggregation of biological cells and pedestrian movements.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Manh Hong Duong , Julian Tugaut