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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are universal function approximators providing state-of- the-art solutions on wide range of applications. Common perceptual tasks such as speech recognition, image classification, and object tracking are now…

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Residual deep neural networks are formulated as interacting particle systems leading to a description through neural differential equations, and, in the case of large input data, through mean-field neural networks. The mean-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Michael Herty , Chiara Segala , Giuseppe Visconti

Mean field control (MFC) problems have been introduced to study social optima in very large populations of strategic agents. The main idea is to consider an infinite population and to simplify the analysis by using a mean field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Sebastian Baudelet , Brieuc Frénais , Mathieu Laurière , Amal Machtalay , Yuchen Zhu

Deep learning based on artificial neural networks is a powerful machine learning method that, in the last few years, has been successfully used to realize tasks, e.g., image classification, speech recognition, translation of languages,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Alessio Zappone , Marco Di Renzo , Mérouane Debbah , Thanh Tu Lam , Xuewen Qian

A principled method to obtain approximate solutions of general constrained integer optimization problems is introduced. The approach is based on the calculation of a mean field probability distribution for the decision variables which is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-08 Arturo Berrones , Jonás Velasco , Juan Banda

Deep neural networks are widely used in various domains. However, the nature of computations at each layer of the deep networks is far from being well understood. Increasing the interpretability of deep neural networks is thus important.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Haiping Huang

We explore unique considerations involved in fitting ML models to data with very high precision, as is often required for science applications. We empirically compare various function approximation methods and study how they scale with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Eric J. Michaud , Ziming Liu , Max Tegmark

Neuroscience has recently made much progress, expanding the complexity of both neural-activity measurements and brain-computational models. However, we lack robust methods for connecting theory and experiment by evaluating our new big…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-06 Heiko H. Schütt , Alexander D. Kipnis , Jörn Diedrichsen , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

We describe a machine learning method for predicting the value of a real-valued function, given the values of multiple input variables. The method induces solutions from samples in the form of ordered disjunctive normal form (DNF) decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-17 S. M. Weiss , N. Indurkhya

A central problem in machine learning is often formulated as follows: Given a dataset $\{(x_j, y_j)\}_{j=1}^M$, which is a sample drawn from an unknown probability distribution, the goal is to construct a functional model $f$ such that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Hrushikesh N. Mhaskar , Efstratios Tsoukanis , Ameya D. Jagtap

Mean field theory provides an effective way of scaling multiagent reinforcement learning algorithms to environments with many agents that can be abstracted by a virtual mean agent. In this paper, we extend mean field multiagent algorithms…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sriram Ganapathi Subramanian , Pascal Poupart , Matthew E. Taylor , Nidhi Hegde

Accurate molecular force fields are of paramount importance for the efficient implementation of molecular dynamics techniques at large scales. In the last decade, machine learning methods have demonstrated impressive performances in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Oriel Kiss , Francesco Tacchino , Sofia Vallecorsa , Ivano Tavernelli

Mean field games (MFGs) have emerged as a powerful framework for modeling interactions in large-scale multi-agent systems. Despite recent advancements in reinforcement learning (RL) for MFGs, existing methods are typically limited to finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Lorenzo Magnino , Kai Shao , Zida Wu , Jiacheng Shen , Mathieu Laurière

Artificial networks have been studied through the prism of statistical mechanics as disordered systems since the 80s, starting from the simple models of Hopfield's associative memory and the single-neuron perceptron classifier. Assuming…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-04-14 Marylou Gabrié , Surya Ganguli , Carlo Lucibello , Riccardo Zecchina

Mean field approximation is a powerful technique to study the performance of large stochastic systems represented as $n$ interacting objects. Applications include load balancing models, epidemic spreading, cache replacement policies, or…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Sebastian Allmeier , Nicolas Gast

Over the past decade, deep neural networks have demonstrated significant success using the training scheme that involves mini-batch stochastic gradient descent on extensive datasets. Expanding upon this accomplishment, there has been a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Jaehyeon Son , Soochan Lee , Gunhee Kim

In this paper, we propose several approaches to learn the optimal population-dependent controls in order to solve mean field control problems (MFC). Such policies enable us to solve MFC problems with forms of common noises at a level of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Gokce Dayanikli , Mathieu Lauriere , Jiacheng Zhang

In comparison to classical shallow representation learning techniques, deep neural networks have achieved superior performance in nearly every application benchmark. But despite their clear empirical advantages, it is still not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Calvin Murdock , George Cazenavette , Simon Lucey

While machine learning is traditionally a resource intensive task, embedded systems, autonomous navigation, and the vision of the Internet of Things fuel the interest in resource-efficient approaches. These approaches aim for a carefully…

While machine learning is traditionally a resource intensive task, embedded systems, autonomous navigation and the vision of the Internet-of-Things fuel the interest in resource efficient approaches. These approaches require a carefully…