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We establish a general framework using a diffusion approximation to simulate forward-in-time state counts or frequencies for cladogenetic state-dependent speciation-extinction (ClaSSE) models. We apply the framework to various two- and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-26 Albert C. Soewongsono , Michael J. Landis

We study the influence of complex graphs on the metastability and fixation properties of a set of evolutionary processes. In the framework of evolutionary game theory, where the fitness and selection are frequency-dependent and vary with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-01 Michael Assaf , Mauro Mobilia

Evolutionary branching is analysed in a stochastic, individual-based population model under mutation and selection. In such models, the common assumption is that individual reproduction and life career are characterised by values of a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-01 S. Sagitov , B. Mehlig , P. Jagers , V. Vatutin

We study a model of stochastic evolutionary game dynamics in which the probabilities that agents choose suboptimal actions are dependent on payoff consequences. We prove a sample path large deviation principle, characterizing the rate of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-10 William H. Sandholm , Mathias Staudigl

Brownian diffusion subject to stochastic resetting to a fixed position has been widely studied for applications to random search processes. In an unbounded domain, the mean first-passage time at a target site can be minimized for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-08 Pedro Julián-Salgado , Leonardo Dagdug , Denis Boyer

We survey continuous-time generative modeling methods based on transporting a simple reference distribution to a data distribution via stochastic or deterministic dynamics. We present a unified framework in which diffusion models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Aditya Ranganath , Mukesh Singhal

We present analytical expressions for the time-dependent and stationary probability distributions corresponding to a stochastically perturbed one-dimensional flow with critical points, in two physically relevant situations: delayed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Balakrishnan , C. Van den Broeck , I. Bena

We consider the problem of diffusion with stochastic resetting in a population of random walks where the diffusion coefficient is not constant, but behaves as a power-law of the average resetting rate of the population. Resetting occurs…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-07 Eric Bertin

Under the effects of strong genetic drift, it is highly probable to observe gene fixation or loss in a population, shown by divergent probability density functions, or infinite adaptive peaks on a landscape. It is then interesting to ask…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-10-29 Song Xu , Shuyun Jiao , Pengyao Jiang , Bo Yuan , Ping Ao

Demographic models built from genetic data play important roles in illuminating prehistorical events and serving as null models in genome scans for selection. We introduce an inference method based on the joint frequency spectrum of genetic…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2010-05-10 Ryan N. Gutenkunst , Ryan D. Hernandez , Scott H. Williamson , Carlos D. Bustamante

At the present time reliably established that probability density functions of gene expression of microarray experiments possess a number of universal properties. First of all these distributions have power asymptotic and secondly the shape…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-08 Viacheslav Saenko , Yurij Saenko

The rate of biological evolution depends on the fixation probability and on the fixation time of new mutants. Intensive research has focused on identifying population structures that augment the fixation probability of advantageous mutants.…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-11 Josef Tkadlec , Andreas Pavlogiannis , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Martin A. Nowak

Diffusion models, a powerful and universal generative AI technology, have achieved tremendous success in computer vision, audio, reinforcement learning, and computational biology. In these applications, diffusion models provide flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Minshuo Chen , Song Mei , Jianqing Fan , Mengdi Wang

Evolutionary dynamics in finite populations is known to fixate eventually in the absence of mutation. We here show that a similar phenomenon can be found in stochastic game dynamical batch learning, and investigate fixation in learning…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 John Realpe-Gomez , Bartosz Szczesny , Luca Dall'Asta , Tobias Galla

We study the population profile in a simple discrete time model of population dynamics. Our model, which is closely related to certain ``bit-string'' models of evolution, incorporates competition for resources via a population dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin Howard , R. K. P. Zia

Is it a good idea to use the frequency of events in the past, as a guide to their frequency in the future (as we all do anyway)? In this paper the question is attacked from the perspective of universal prediction of individual sequences. It…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Yuval Lomnitz , Meir Feder

We study a class of high-frequency path functionals for diffusions with singular thresholds or boundaries, where the process exhibits either (i) skweness, oscillating coefficients, and stickiness, or (ii) sticky reflection. The functionals…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Alexis Anagnostakis , Sara Mazzonetto

In systems which exhibit deterministic diffusion, the gross parameter dependence of the diffusion coefficient can often be understood in terms of random walk models. Provided the decay of correlations is fast enough, one can ignore memory…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-07 Thomas Gilbert , David P. Sanders

A forward diffusion equation describing the evolution of the allele frequency spectrum is presented. The influx of mutations is accounted for by imposing a suitable boundary condition. For a Wright-Fisher diffusion with or without selection…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Steven N. Evans , Yelena Shvets , Montgomery Slatkin

We consider an infinitely large population under stabilising selection and mutation in which the allelic effects determining a polygenic trait vary between loci. We obtain analytical expressions for the stationary genetic variance as a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-01-13 Kavita Jain , Wolfgang Stephan