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The problem of accurate nonparametric estimation of distributional functionals (integral functionals of one or more probability distributions) has received recent interest due to their wide applicability in signal processing, information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Kevin R. Moon , Kumar Sricharan , Alfred O. Hero

We consider a one-dimensional McKean-Vlasov SDE on a domain and the associated mean-field interacting particle system. The peculiarity of this system is the combination of the interaction, which keeps the average position prescribed, and…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Michele Coghi , Wolfgang Dreyer , Paul Gajewski , Clemens Guhlke , Peter Friz , Mario Maurelli

In this paper, we present a numerical approach to solve the McKean-Vlasov equations, which are distribution-dependent stochastic differential equations, under some non-globally Lipschitz conditions for both the drift and diffusion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Qian Guo , Jie He , Lei Li

We suggest an iterative approach to computing K-step maximum likelihood estimates (MLE) of the parametric components in semiparametric models based on their profile likelihoods. The higher order convergence rate of K-step MLE mainly depends…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-08-23 Guang Cheng

We study the problem of reconstructing interaction kernels in systems of interacting agents from macroscopic measurements when posed as an optimization problem. The reconstruction procedure depends on the formulation of the forward model,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Peiyi Chen , Qin Li , Li Wang , Yunan Yang

We develop a class of interacting particle systems for implementing a maximum marginal likelihood estimation (MMLE) procedure to estimate the parameters of a latent variable model. We achieve this by formulating a continuous-time…

This paper deals with nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation for Gaussian locally stationary processes. Our nonparametric MLE is constructed by minimizing a frequency domain likelihood over a class of functions. The asymptotic behavior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-10 Rainer Dahlhaus , Wolfgang Polonik

Mean-Field is an efficient way to approximate a posterior distribution in complex graphical models and constitutes the most popular class of Bayesian variational approximation methods. In most applications, the mean field distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Pierre Baqué , Jean-Hubert Hours , François Fleuret , Pascal Fua

The photon flux resulting from high-energy electron beam interactions with high field systems, such as in the upcoming FACET-II experiments at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, may give deep insight into the electron beam's underlying…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 M. Yadav , M. Oruganti , S. Zhang , B. Naranjo , G. Andonian , Y. Zhuang , Ö. Apsimon , C. P. Welsch , J. B. Rosenzweig

In this paper, we study multi-species stochastic interacting particle systems and their mean-field McKean-Vlasov partial differential equations (PDEs) in non-convex landscapes. We discuss the well-posedness of the multi-species SDE system,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Manh Hong Duong , Grigorios A. Pavliotis , Julian Tugaut

In this paper, we establish well-posedness of reflected McKean-Vlasov SDEs and their particle approximations in smooth non-convex domains. We prove convergence of the interacting particle system to the corresponding mean-field limit with…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-10 P. D. Hinds , A. Sharma , M. V. Tretyakov

In the context of a large system of $N$ neurons interacting through spike events in a mean-field regime as $N\rightarrow \infty$, we characterize the estimation of a multidimensional parameter in the spiking rate, when the neural states are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Aline Duarte , Dasha Loukianova , Aurélien Velleret

We consider the problem of estimating the distribution function, the density and the hazard rate of the (unobservable) event time in the current status model. A well studied and natural nonparametric estimator for the distribution function…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-01-13 Piet Groeneboom , Geurt Jongbloed , Birgit I. Witte

Let $\mu\in \mathcal{P}_2(\mathbb R^d)$, where $\mathcal{P}_2(\mathbb R^d)$ denotes the space of square integrable probability measures, and consider a Borel-measurable function $\Phi:\mathcal P_2(\mathbb R^d)\rightarrow \mathbb R $. IIn…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Łukasz Szpruch , Alvin Tse

The mean field limits of systems of interacting diffusions (also called stochastic interacting particle systems (SIPS)) have been intensively studied since McKean \cite{mckean1966class}. The interacting diffusions pave a way to…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Lukasz Szpruch , Shuren Tan , Alvin Tse

We present a generalization of Vlasov-Maxwell kinetic theory that accounts for intense electromagnetic fields. A strongly-radiating, possibly optically-thick plasma is decomposed into fragments, each comprising a charged particle together…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 J. W. Burby , P. J. Morrison

This article proposes a unified framework to study non-exchangeable mean-field particle systems with some general interaction mechanisms. The starting point is a fixed-point formulation of particle systems originally due to Tanaka that…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Louis-Pierre Chaintron , Antoine Diez

This paper is devoted to the study of the Bayesian-inference approach in the context of estimating the dipole coupling strength in matter-field interactions. In particular, we consider the simplest model of a two-level system interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-06 József Zsolt Bernád , Claudio Sanavio , André Xuereb

We consider Mckean-Vlasov type stochastic differential equations with multiplicative noise arising from the random vortex method. Such an equation can be viewed as the mean-field limit of interacting particle systems with singular…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Jiawei Li , Zhongmin Qian

Collective behaviors that emerge from interactions are fundamental to numerous biological systems. To learn such interacting forces from observations, we introduce a measure-valued neural network that infers measure-dependent interaction…

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