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The mean-field limit of interacting diffusions without exchangeability, caused by weighted interactions and non-i.i.d. initial values, are investigated. The weights could be signed and unbounded. The result applies to a large class of…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Zhenfu Wang , Xianliang Zhao , Rongchan Zhu

We study graphons as a non-parametric generalization of stochastic block models, and show how to obtain compactly represented estimators for sparse networks in this framework. Our algorithms and analysis go beyond previous work in several…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , Shirshendu Ganguly

Important gaps remain in our understanding of the thermodynamics and statistical physics of self-gravitating systems. Using mean field theory, here we investigate the equilibrium properties of several spherically symmetric model systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter J. Klinko , Bruce N. Miller

In this paper, we investigate gradient estimate of the Poisson equation and the exponential convergence in the Wasserstein metric $W_{1,d_{l^1}}$, uniform in the number of particles, and uniform-in-time propagation of chaos for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Wei Liu , Liming Wu , Chaoen Zhang

We consider mean-field interactions corresponding to Gibbs measures on interacting Brownian paths in three dimensions. The interaction is self-attractive and is given by a singular Coulomb potential. The logarithmic asymptotics of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Erwin Bolthausen , Wolfgang Koenig , Chiranjib Mukherjee

This paper studies the problem of estimating the grahpon model - the underlying generating mechanism of a network. Graphon estimation arises in many applications such as predicting missing links in networks and learning user preferences in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-12 Jiaming Xu

This paper studies the Gibbs measure of an interacting particle system with a general interaction kernel at various temperature regimes. We are particularly interested in fine features of the convergence to the mean-field density as the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-17 David Padilla-Garza

We consider a system of $N$ particles interacting through their empirical distribution on a finite state space in continuous time. In the formal limit as $N\to\infty$, the system takes the form of a nonlinear (McKean--Vlasov) Markov chain.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Asaf Cohen , Ethan Huffman

Density level sets can be estimated using plug-in methods, excess mass algorithms or a hybrid of the two previous methodologies. The plug-in algorithms are based on replacing the unknown density by some nonparametric estimator, usually the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-26 A. Rodríguez-Casal , P. Saavedra-Nieves

In numerous applications data are observed at random times and an estimated graph of the spectral density may be relevant for characterizing and explaining phenomena. By using a wavelet analysis, one derives a nonparametric estimator of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-27 Jean-Marc Bardet , Pierre Bertrand

Non-parametric approaches for analyzing network data based on exchangeable graph models (ExGM) have recently gained interest. The key object that defines an ExGM is often referred to as a graphon. This non-parametric perspective on network…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-11-14 Edoardo M Airoldi , Thiago B Costa , Stanley H Chan

In this paper, we present an innovative particle system characterized by moderate interactions, designed to accurately approximate kinetic flocking models that incorporate singular interaction forces and local alignment mechanisms. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Jinhuan Wang , Keyu Li , Hui Huang

Understanding the relationship between the heterogeneous structure of complex networks and cooperative phenomena occurring on them remains a key problem in network science. Mean-field theories of spin models on networks constitute a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-02-10 Fernando L. Metz , Thomas Peron

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

This paper is devoted the the study of the mean field limit for many-particle systems undergoing jump, drift or diffusion processes, as well as combinations of them. The main results are quantitative estimates on the decay of fluctuations…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Stéphane Mischler , Clément Mouhot , Bernt Wennberg

The mean-field limit in a weakly interacting stochastic many-particle system for multiple population species in the whole space is proved. The limiting system consists of cross-diffusion equations, modeling the segregation of populations.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Li Chen , Esther S. Daus , Ansgar Jüngel

We use probabilistic methods to study properties of mean-field models, arising as large-scale limits of certain particle systems with mean-field interaction. The underlying particle system is such that $n$ particles move forward on the real…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Alexander Stolyar

This paper is concerned with the convergence and long-term stability analysis of the feedback particle filter (FPF) algorithm. The FPF is an interacting system of $N$ particles where the interaction is designed such that the empirical…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Amirhossein Taghvaei , Prashant G. Mehta

We address the problem of estimating the drift parameter in a system of $N$ interacting particles driven by additive fractional Brownian motion of Hurst index \( H \geq 1/2 \). Considering continuous observation of the interacting particles…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Chiara Amorino , Ivan Nourdin , Radomyra Shevchenko

Bayesian predictive synthesis provides a coherent Bayesian framework for combining multiple predictive distributions, or agents, into a single updated prediction, extending Bayesian model averaging to allow general pooling of full…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Marios Papamichalis , Regina Ruane