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We study binary state dynamics on a network where each node acts in response to the average state of its neighborhood. Allowing varying amounts of stochasticity in both the network and node responses, we find different outcomes in random…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-07-09 Kameron Decker Harris , Christopher M. Danforth , Peter Sheridan Dodds

In this paper a rigorous proof of the mean field limit for a pedestrian flow model in two dimensions is given by using a probabilistic method. The model under investigation is an interacting particle system coupled to the eikonal equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Li Chen , Simone Göttlich , Qitao Yin

Analytical description of propagation phenomena on random networks has flourished in recent years, yet more complex systems have mainly been studied through numerical means. In this paper, a mean-field description is used to coherently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-08 Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , Pierre-André Noël , Vincent Marceau , Antoine Allard , Louis J. Dubé

Dynamical systems of N particles in \R^{D} interacting by a singular pair potential of mean field type are considered. The systems are assumed to be of gradient type and the existence of a macroscopic limit in the many particle limit is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Robert J. Berman , Magnus Önnheim

We study a population of $N$ particles, which evolve according to a diffusion process and interact through a dynamical network. In turn, the evolution of the network is coupled to the particles' positions. In contrast with the mean-field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Julien Barré , Paul Dobson , Michela Ottobre , Ewelina Zatorska

The well-posedness and regularity properties of diffusion-aggregation equations, emerging from interacting particle systems, are established on the whole space for bounded interaction force kernels by utilizing a compactness convergence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Li Chen , Paul Nikolaev , David J. Prömel

We consider interacting systems particle driven by i.i.d. fractional Brownian motions, subject to irregular, possibly distributional, pairwise interactions. We show propagation of chaos and mean field convergence to the law of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Lucio Galeati , Khoa Lê , Avi Mayorcas

For algorithms based on interacting particle systems that admit a mean-field description, convergence analysis is often more accessible at the mean-field level. In order to transfer convergence results obtained at the mean-field level to…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Nicolai Jurek Gerber , Franca Hoffmann , Urbain Vaes

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 study the mean-field limit of a generic class of dynamic co-evolving latent space networks motivated by the social and opinion dynamics literature. Such models include $n$ agents, whose opinions are given by latent stochastic processes,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Ankan Ganguly , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos , Daniel Sussman

The Random Batch Method proposed in our previous work [Jin et al., J. Comput. Phys., 400(1), 2020] is not only a numerical method for interacting particle systems and its mean-field limit, but also can be viewed as a model of particle…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Shi Jin , Lei Li

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

In this work, we prove the well--posedness of a singularly interacting stochastic particle system and we establish propagation of chaos result towards the one-dimensional parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel model.

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Jean-Francois Jabir , Denis Talay , Milica Tomasevic

Motivated by considerations from neuroscience (macroscopic behavior of large ensembles of interacting neurons), we consider a population of mean field interacting diffusions in $\mathbf {R}^m$ in the presence of a random environment and…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-03 Eric Luçon , Wilhelm Stannat

We consider a class of optimization problems on the space of probability measures motivated by the mean-field approach to studying neural networks. Such problems can be solved by constructing continuous-time gradient flows that converge to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Petra Lazić , Linshan Liu , Mateusz B. Majka

We introduce a framework to prove propagation of chaos for interacting particle systems with singular, density-dependent interactions, a classical challenge in mean-field theory. Our approach is to define the dynamics implicitly via a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Qian Qi

Building on the line of work [DIRT15a], [DIRT15b], [NS17a], [DT17], [HLS18], [HS18] we continue the study of particle systems with singular interaction through hitting times. In contrast to the previous research, we (i) consider very…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Sergey Nadtochiy , Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

We consider heterogeneously interacting diffusive particle systems and their large population limit. The interaction is of mean field type with weights characterized by an underlying graphon. A law of large numbers result is established as…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Erhan Bayraktar , Suman Chakraborty , Ruoyu Wu

In this work, we formulate an abstract framework to study mean-field systems. In contrast to most approaches in the available literature which primarily rely on the analysis of SDEs, ours is based on optimal transport and semigroup theory.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Tau Shean Lim , Chao Dun Teoh

Most networks of interest do not live in isolation. Instead they form components of larger systems in which multiple networks with distinct topologies coexist and where elements distributed amongst different networks may interact directly.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-07-07 E. A. Leicht , Raissa M. D'Souza