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A mean field argument is used to derive a master equation for systems simultaneously interacting with external fields and coupled environmental degrees of freedom. We prove that this master equation preserves positivity of the reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joshua Wilkie , Murat Cetinbas

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

In this review we survey the literature on mean-field coupled maps. We start with the early works from the physics literature, arriving to some recent results from ergodic theory studying the thermodynamic limit of globally coupled maps and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Matteo Tanzi

This paper investigates the limit behavior of Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) made of independent particles evolving in a common environment, when the number of particles goes to infinity. In the finite horizon case or with a discounted…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-06-10 Nicolas Gast , Bruno Gaujal

Mean-field games arise in various fields including economics, engineering, and machine learning. They study strategic decision making in large populations where the individuals interact via certain mean-field quantities. The ground metrics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Lisang Ding , Wuchen Li , Stanley Osher , Wotao Yin

We extend the notion of Gibbsianness for mean-field systems to the set-up of general (possibly continuous) local state spaces. We investigate the Gibbs properties of systems arising from an initial mean-field Gibbs measure by application of…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-13 C. Kuelske , A. A. Opoku

Recent years have seen a great increase in the capacity and parallel processing power of data centers and cloud services. To fully utilize the said distributed systems, optimal load balancing for parallel queuing architectures must be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Anam Tahir , Kai Cui , Heinz Koeppl

Dynamical mean-field approximations are performed to study the phase transition of a pair contact process with diffusion in different spatial dimensions. The level of approximation is extended up to 18-site clusters for the one-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Attila Szolnoki

Kernel mean embeddings are a popular tool that consists in representing probability measures by their infinite-dimensional mean embeddings in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. When the kernel is characteristic, mean embeddings can be used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Boris Muzellec , Francis Bach , Alessandro Rudi

Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) has opened new perspectives for the investigation of strongly correlated electron systems and greatly improved our understanding of correlation effects in models and materials. In contrast to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-16 Dieter Vollhardt

Machine learning opens new avenues for modelling correlated materials. Quantum embedding approaches, such as the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT), provide corrections to first-principles calculations for strongly correlated materials,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Evan Sheridan , Christopher Rhodes , Francois Jamet , Ivan Rungger , Cedric Weber

We prove well-posedness of a class of kinetic-type Mean Field Games, which typically arise when agents control their acceleration. Such systems include independent variables representing the spatial position as well as velocity. We consider…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-20 David M. Ambrose , Megan Griffin-Pickering , Alpár R. Mészáros

Across science and engineering, mean-field methods have been a powerful and versatile approach for the analysis of systems of many interacting elements. However, common arguments used to characterize an infinite population limit can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Connor S. Braun , Sina Sanjari , Naci Saldi , Gunnar Blohm , Serdar Yüksel

In recent years, reinforcement learning and its multi-agent analogue have achieved great success in solving various complex control problems. However, multi-agent reinforcement learning remains challenging both in its theoretical analysis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Kai Cui , Mengguang Li , Christian Fabian , Heinz Koeppl

In recent years considerable portion of the computer science community has focused its attention on understanding living cell biochemistry and efforts to understand such complication reaction environment have spread over wide front, ranging…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Zoran Konkoli

In this paper, we study the maximum principle of mean field type control problems when the volatility function depends on the state and its measure and also the control, by using our recently developed method. Our method is to embed the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Alain Bensoussan , Ziyu Huang , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

Kernel means are frequently used to represent probability distributions in machine learning problems. In particular, the well known kernel density estimator and the kernel mean embedding both have the form of a kernel mean. Unfortunately,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-03 E. Cruz Cortés , C. Scott

Large-scale competitive platforms are interacting multi-agent systems in which latent skills drift over time and pairwise interactions are shaped by matchmaking. We study a controlled rating dynamics in the mean-field limit and derive a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Wataru Nozawa

As it stands, a robust mathematical framework to analyse and study various topics in deep learning is yet to come to the fore. Nonetheless, viewing deep learning as a dynamical system allows the use of established theories to investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Nader Ganaba

We develop theoretical diagnostics for the breakdown of mean-field theory, demonstrate how spatial structure and finite interaction ranges enter the effective description, and show how these scales qualitatively modify the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Pok Man Lo