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Interacting particle systems are known for their ability to generate large-scale self-organized structures from simple local interaction rules between each agent and its neighbors. In addition to studying their emergent behavior, a main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Nathalie Ayi , Nastassia Pouradier Duteil , David Poyato

We consider a mean-field system of path-dependent stochastic interacting diffusions in random media over a finite time window. The interaction term is given as a function of the empirical measure and is allowed to be non-linear and path…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Rangel Baldasso , Alan Pereira , Guilherme Reis

We consider nonparametric statistical inference on a periodic interaction potential $W$ from noisy discrete space-time measurements of solutions $\rho=\rho_W$ of the nonlinear McKean-Vlasov equation, describing the probability density of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Richard Nickl , Grigorios A. Pavliotis , Kolyan Ray

Interacting particle systems are in frequent use to model collective behaviour in various situations and applications. For many systems, the interaction between the agents is restricted to an underlying network structure and often, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Sebastian Throm

The random batch method provides an efficient algorithm for computing statistical properties of a canonical ensemble of interacting particles. In this work, we study the error estimates of the fully discrete random batch method, especially…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Xuda Ye , Zhennan Zhou

We study the problem of learning unknown parameters in stochastic interacting particle systems with polynomial drift, interaction and diffusion functions from the path of one single particle in the system. Our estimator is obtained by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Grigorios A. Pavliotis , Andrea Zanoni

We find limiting distributions of the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of a log-concave density, that is, a density of the form $f_0=\exp\varphi_0$ where $\varphi_0$ is a concave function on $\mathbb{R}$. The pointwise…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Fadoua Balabdaoui , Kaspar Rufibach , Jon A. Wellner

We consider in this work the convergence of a split-step Euler type scheme (SSM) for the numerical simulation of interacting particle Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) systems and McKean-Vlasov Stochastic Differential Equations…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Xingyuan Chen , Goncalo dos Reis

Maximum likelihood estimation of linear functionals in the inverse problem of deconvolution is considered. Given observations of a random sample from a distribution $P_0\equiv P_{F_0}$ indexed by a (potentially infinite-dimensional)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Catia Scricciolo

We study two interacting particle systems, both modeled as a system of $N$ stochastic differential equations driven by Brownian motions with singular kernels and moderate interaction. We show a quantitative result where the convergence rate…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Josué Knorst , Christian Olivera , Alexandre B. de Souza

We investigate the mean-field limit for interacting particle systems through a duality-based framework and obtain quantitative estimates on the convergence of marginals as well as on correlation functions. In particular, for merely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Nadia Khoury , P. -E. Jabin

In this work, we consider one-dimensional particles interacting in mean-field type through a bounded kernel. In addition, when particles hit some barrier (say zero), they are removed from the system. This absorption of particles is…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Gaoyue Guo , Maxime Latypov , Milica Tomasevic

We develop a mean-field theory for large, non-exchangeable particle (agent) systems where the states and interaction weights co-evolve in a coupled system of SDEs. A first main result is the establishment of the propagation of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Datong 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 present a Mean Field Game approach to obtain the rate function for the empirical measure of interacting particles under McKean-Vlasov dynamics. Although the result is well known, our approach relies on PDE methods and provides another…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Nikiforos Mimikos-Stamatopoulos

We consider a discrete-time system of n coupled random vectors, a.k.a. interacting particles. The dynamics involve a vanishing step size, some random centered perturbations, and a mean vector field which induces the coupling between the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Pascal Bianchi , Walid Hachem , Victor Priser

Integration against a probability distribution given its unnormalized density is a central task in Bayesian inference and other fields. We introduce new methods for approximating such expectations with a small set of weighted samples --…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Ayoub Belhadji , Daniel Sharp , Youssef M. Marzouk

This note is a companion article to the recent paper L\"ocherbach, Loukianova, Marini (2024). We consider mean field systems of interacting particles. Each particle jumps with a jump rate depending on its position. When jumping, a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Dasha Loukianova , Eva Löcherbach

This work studies the properties of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of a non-linear model with Gaussian errors and multidimensional parameter. The observations are collected in a two-stage experimental design and are dependent since…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Nancy Flournoy , Caterina May , Chiara Tommasi

We study the uniform convergence rate of the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) for the sub-distribution functions in the current status data with competing risks model. It is known that the MLE have $L^2$-norm convergence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Sergey V. Malov