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We review a recent approach to the mean-field limits in neural networks that takes into account the stochastic nature of input current and the uncertainty in synaptic coupling. This approach was proved to be a rigorous limit of the network…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-01-22 Jonathan Touboul , Bard Ermentrout , Olivier Faugeras , Bruno Cessac

Regulatory networks describe the interactions between molecular or cellular regulators, like transcription factors and genes in gene regulatory networks, kinases and their receptors in signalling networks, or neurons in neural networks. A…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-29 Niklas Bonacker , Johannes Berg

We consider pulse-coupled Leaky Integrate-and-Fire neural networks with randomly distributed synaptic couplings. This random dilution induces fluctuations in the evolution of the macroscopic variables and deterministic chaos at the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-04-14 D. Angulo-Garcia , A. Torcini

The ability of discrete-time nonlinear recurrent neural networks to store time-varying small input signals is investigated by mean-field theory. The combination of a small input strength and mean-field assumptions makes it possible to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-12-25 Taichi Haruna , Kohei Nakajima

This study addresses primal-dual dynamics for a stochastic programming problem for capacity network design. It is proven that consensus can be achieved on the \textit{here and now} variables which represent the capacity of the network. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Casper T. Röling , Dario Bauso , Hamidou Tembine

If the behavior of a system with many degrees of freedom can be captured by a small number of collective variables, then plausibly there is an underlying mean-field theory. We show that simple versions of this idea fail to describe the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Luca Di Carlo , Francesca Mignacco , Christopher W. Lynn , William Bialek

We consider a data-driven formulation of the classical discrete-time stochastic control problem. Our approach exploits the natural structure of many such problems, in which significant portions of the system are uncontrolled. Employing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Boris Baros , Samuel N. Cohen , Christoph Reisinger

Neural field equations are used to describe the spatiotemporal evolution of the activity in a network of synaptically coupled populations of neurons in the continuum limit. Their heuristic derivation involves two approximation steps. Under…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Eva Lang , Wilhelm Stannat

We consider the problem of function approximation by two-layer neural nets with random weights that are "nearly Gaussian" in the sense of Kullback-Leibler divergence. Our setting is the mean-field limit, where the finite population of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Belinda Tzen , Maxim Raginsky

Mean-field analysis is an important tool for understanding dynamics on complex networks. However, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the question of whether mean-field predictions are accurate, and this is particularly true for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-17 James P. Gleeson , Sergey Melnik , Jonathan A. Ward , Mason A. Porter , Peter J. Mucha

Network inference has been extensively studied in several fields, such as systems biology and social sciences. Learning network topology and internal dynamics is essential to understand mechanisms of complex systems. In particular, sparse…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-13 Yasen Wang , Junyang Jin , Jorge Goncalves

Neural network dynamics emerge from the interaction of spiking cells. One way to formulate the problem is through a theoretical framework inspired by ideas coming from statistical physics, the so-called mean-field theory. In this document,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Grégory Dumont , Pierre Gabriel

Biological neural networks can operate in qualitatively distinct dynamical regimes, and transitions between these regimes are thought to underlie changes in computation and behavior. The seminal work of Sompolinsky, Crisanti, and Sommers…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-15 Carles Martorell , Rubén Calvo , Alessia Annibale , Miguel A. Muñoz

Experimental research has shown that the brain's fast electrochemical dynamics, or neurodynamics (ND), is strongly stochastic, chaotic, and instanton (neuroavalanche)-dominated. It is also partly scale-invariant which has been loosely…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-09 Igor V. Ovchinnikov , Skirmantas Janusonis

In this work, we propose a nonlinear stochastic model of a network of stochastic spiking neurons. We heuristically derive the mean-field limit of this system. We then design a Monte Carlo method for the simulation of the microscopic system,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Benjamin Aymard , Fabien Campillo , Romain Veltz

In this work we study of the dynamics of large size random neural networks. Different methods have been developed to analyse their behavior, most of them rely on heuristic methods based on Gaussian assumptions regarding the fluctuations in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-12-19 A. Crisanti , H. Sompolinsky

Mesoscopic models of finite-size neuronal populations are crucial to understand the dynamics of neural networks in the brain, especially their fluctuations and response to stimuli. However, current theories to derive such models are based…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-26 Nils E. Greven , Jonas Ranft , Tilo Schwalger

Neural networks of the brain form one of the most complex systems we know. Many qualitative features of the emerging collective phenomena, such as correlated activity, stability, response to inputs, chaotic and regular behavior, can,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-06-16 Jannis Schuecker , Sven Goedeke , David Dahmen , Moritz Helias

We study the asymptotic law of a network of interacting neurons when the number of neurons becomes infinite. The dynamics of the neurons is described by a set of stochastic differential equations in discrete time. The neurons interact…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-10 Olivier Faugeras , James MacLaurin

We consider the problem of the limit of bio-inspired spatially extended neuronal networks including an infinite number of neuronal types (space locations), with space-dependent propagation delays modeling neural fields. The propagation of…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Jonathan Touboul