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We expand on a recent study of a lattice model of interacting particles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 110601 (2013)]. The adsorption isotherm and equilibrium fluctuations in particle number are discussed as a function of the interaction. Their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-20 T. Becker , K. Nelissen , B. Cleuren , B. Partoens , C. Van den Broeck

Diffusion processes are instrumental to describe the movement of a continuous quantity in a generic network of interacting agents. Here, we present a probabilistic framework for diffusion in networks and propose to classify agent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Wai Hong Ronald Chan , Matthias Wildemeersch , Tony Q. S. Quek

In large-scale systems there are fundamental challenges when centralised techniques are used for task allocation. The number of interactions is limited by resource constraints such as on computation, storage, and network communication. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Niall Creech , Natalia Criado Pacheco , Simon Miles

Stochastic restarting is a strategy of starting anew. Incorporation of the resetting to the random walks can result in the decrease of the mean first passage time, due to the ability to limit unfavorably meandering, sub-optimal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-08 Karol Capała , Bartłomiej Dybiec

Guidance is a cornerstone of modern diffusion models, playing a pivotal role in conditional generation and enhancing the quality of unconditional samples. However, current approaches to guidance scheduling--determining the appropriate…

We consider the problem of decentralized optimization where a collection of agents, each having access to a local cost function, communicate over a time-varying directed network and aim to minimize the sum of those functions. In practice,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Yiyue Chen , Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

Single-molecule localization microscopy allows practitioners to locate and track labeled molecules in biological systems. When extracting diffusion coefficients from the resulting trajectories, it is common practice to perform a linear fit…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Jakob Tómas Bullerjahn , Gerhard Hummer

This paper investigates the application of Diffusion Policy in non-stationary, vision-based RL settings, specifically targeting environments where task dynamics and objectives evolve over time. Our work is grounded in practical challenges…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Gunbir Singh Baveja

We investigate the search of a target with a given spatial distribution in a finite one-dimensional domain. The searcher follows Brownian dynamics and is always reset to its initial position when reaching the boundaries of the domain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-06 Gregorio García-Valladares , Antonio Prados , Alessandro Manacorda , Carlos A. Plata

The dynamics of cellular aggregates is driven by the interplay of mechanochemical processes and cellular activity. Although deterministic models may capture mechanical features, local chemical fluctuations trigger random cell responses,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-17 Ana Carpio , Elena Cebrian

In the classical stochastic resetting problem, a particle, moving according to some stochastic dynamics, undergoes random interruptions that bring it to a selected domain, and then, the process recommences. Hitherto, the resetting mechanism…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-08 Carlos A. Plata , Deepak Gupta , Sandro Azaele

We use a combination of unsupervised clustering and sparsity-promoting inference algorithms to learn locally dominant force balances that explain macroscopic pattern formation in self-organized active particle systems. The self-organized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-28 Dominik Sturm , Suryanarayana Maddu , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

Efficient navigation in swarms often relies on the emergence of decentralized approaches that minimize traversal time or energy. Stigmergy, where agents modify a shared environment that then modifies their behavior, is a classic mechanism…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-08 Vishaal Krishnan , L. Mahadevan

The Bass diffusion equation is a well-known and established modeling approach for describing new product adoption in a competitive market. This model also describes diffusion phenomena in various contexts: infectious disease spread modeling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Gabriel Nicolosi , Christopher Griffin

We consider the distributed stochastic optimization problem where $n$ agents want to minimize a global function given by the sum of agents' local functions, and focus on the heterogeneous setting when agents' local functions are defined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Tiancheng Qin , S. Rasoul Etesami , César A. Uribe

We study the evolution of interacting groups of agents in two-dimensional geometries. We introduce a microscopic stochastic model that includes floor fields modeling the global flow of individual groups as well as local interaction rules.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-03 William Ott , Ilya Timofeyev , Thomas Weber

A common and effective method for calculating the steady-state distribution of a process under stochastic resetting is the renewal approach that requires only the knowledge of the reset-free propagator of the underlying process and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-15 Ron Vatash , Amy Altshuler , Yael Roichman

Communication structure plays a key role in the learning capability of decentralized systems. Structural self-adaptation, by means of self-organization, changes the order as well as the input information of the agents' collective…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Jovan Nikolic , Evangelos Pournaras

Reaction-diffusion systems offer a powerful framework for understanding self-organized patterns in biological systems, yet controlling these patterns remains a significant challenge. As a consequence, we present a rigorous framework of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Mohamed Amine Ouchdiri , Hamza Faquir , Saad Benjelloun , Mohamed Adlene Maghenem , Irene Otero-Muras , Adnane Saoud

Stochastic chemical reaction or population dynamics in finite systems often terminates in an absorbing state. Yet in large spatially extended systems, the time to reach species extinction (or fixation) becomes exceedingly long. Tuning…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-17 Kenneth A. V. Distefano , Sara Shabani , Uwe C. Täuber