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Lattice-based random walk models are widely used to study populations of migrating cells with motility bias and proliferation. Crowding is typically represented by volume exclusion, where each lattice site can be occupied by at most one…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-28 Michael J. Plank , Matthew J. Simpson

Multi-agent systems can be successfully described by kinetic models, which allow one to explore the large scale aggregate trends resulting from elementary microscopic interactions. The latter may be formalised as collision-like rules, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-06 Nadia Loy , Andrea Tosin

We consider weakly interacting jump processes on time-varying random graphs with dynamically changing multi-color edges. The system consists of a large number of nodes in which the node dynamics depends on the joint empirical distribution…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Erhan Bayraktar , Ruoyu Wu

Mean-field reinforcement learning (MF-RL) scales multi-agent RL to large populations by reducing each agent's dependence on others to a single summary statistic -- the mean action. However, this reduction requires every agent to act at…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Shan Yang

Existing multi-agent reinforcement learning methods are limited typically to a small number of agents. When the agent number increases largely, the learning becomes intractable due to the curse of the dimensionality and the exponential…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Yaodong Yang , Rui Luo , Minne Li , Ming Zhou , Weinan Zhang , Jun Wang

Many analyses of resource-allocation problems employ simplistic models of the population. Using the example of a resource-allocation problem of Marecek et al. [arXiv:1406.7639], we introduce rather a general behavioural model, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Jonathan Epperlein , Jakub Marecek

We address density control problems for large-scale multi-agent systems in leader-follower settings, where a group of controllable leaders must steer a population of followers toward a desired spatial distribution. Unlike prior work, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Beniamino Di Lorenzo , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Mario di Bernardo

We analyze the emergent regimes and the stimulus-response relationship of a population of noisy map neurons by means of a mean-field model, derived within the framework of cumulant approach complemented by the Gaussian closure hypothesis.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-13 Igor Franovic , Oleg V. Maslennikov , Iva Bacic , Vladimir I. Nekorkin

Agent based models (ABMs) are a useful tool for modeling spatio-temporal population dynamics, where many details can be included in the model description. Their computational cost though is very high and for stochastic ABMs a lot of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Stefanie Winkelmann , Johannes Zonker , Christof Schütte , Natasa Djurdjevac Conrad

The usual Langevin approach to describe systems driven by noise fails to describe the long time behavior of systems with multiple attractors. The solution of the associated linear Fokker-Planck equation is always unique, even though it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-20 M. Morillo , J. M. Casado

Independent sample generation is the prevailing paradigm in modern diffusion-based generative models of AI. We ask a different question: can samples \emph{coordinate} through shared population statistics to transport probability mass more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Michael Chertkov

We present a detailed investigation of the behavior of the nonlinear q-voter model for opinion dynamics. At the mean-field level we derive analytically, for any value of the number q of agents involved in the elementary update, the phase…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-12 Paolo Moretti , Suyu Liu , Claudio Castellano , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

In this paper, we develop a variational method to track and make predictions about a real-world system from continuous imperfect observations about this system, using an agent-based model that describes the system dynamics. By combining the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Wen Dong

We study a leader-follower system of interacting particles subject to feedback control and derive its mean-field limits through a two-step passage: first to a micro-macro system coupling leader particles with a follower fluid, and then to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Giacomo Albi , Young-Pil Choi , Matteo Piu , Sihyun Song

We study the asymptotic macroscopic properties of the mixed majority-minority game, modeling a population in which two types of heterogeneous adaptive agents, namely ``fundamentalists'' driven by differentiation and ``trend-followers''…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. De Martino , I. Giardina , G. Mosetti

We consider the problem of categorizing and describing the dynamic properties and behaviours of crowds over time. Previous work has tended to focus on a relatively static "typology"-based approach, which does not account for the fact that…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Martyn Amos , Steve Gwynne , Anne Templeton

We study infinite-horizon Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with a continuum of heterogeneous agents interacting through a common noise, without assuming exchangeability. We introduce the framework of Conditional Non-Exchangeable Mean Field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Samy Mekkaoui , Huyên Pham

In this paper we study a two dimensional crowd model where pedestrian velocity consists of two elements: a non--local interaction term, modeling the effect of other walkers on each individual, and a control term. This latter term can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-25 Fabio S. Priuli

This paper considers an $n$-particle jump-diffusion system with mean filed interaction, where the coefficients are locally Lipschitz continuous. We address the convergence as $n\to\infty$ of the empirical measure of the jump-diffusions to…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Zeqian Li

We develop an exhaustive study of Markov decision process (MDP) under mean field interaction both on states and actions in the presence of common noise, and when optimization is performed over open-loop controls on infinite horizon. Such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Médéric Motte , Huyên Pham