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To understand the training dynamics of neural networks (NNs), prior studies have considered the infinite-width mean-field (MF) limit of two-layer NN, establishing theoretical guarantees of its convergence under gradient flow training as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Zhengdao Chen , Eric Vanden-Eijnden , Joan Bruna

We study bifurcations in networks of integrate-and-fire neurons with stochastic spike emission, focusing on the effects of the spatial and temporal structure of the synaptic interactions. Using a deterministic mean-field approximation of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-19 Lauren Forbes , Jared Grossman , Montie Avery , Ryan Goh , Gabriel Koch Ocker

The mean-field limit of a Markovian model describing the interaction of several classes of permanent connections in a network is analyzed. Each of the connections has a self-adaptive behavior in that its transmission rate along its route…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-12-15 Carl Graham , Philippe Robert

By extending a dynamical mean-field approximation (DMA) previously proposed by the author [H. Hasegawa, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 67}, 41903 (2003)], we have developed a semianalytical theory which takes into account a wide range of couplings in a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Hideo Hasegawa

We investigated the effects of synaptic depression on the macroscopic behavior of stochastic neural networks. Dynamical mean field equations were derived for such networks by taking the average of two stochastic variables: a firing state…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-03-08 Yasuhiko Igarashi , Masafumi Oizumi , Masato Okada

We present an interacting branching model of neural network dynamics, incorporating key biological features such as inhibition with several types of inhibitory interactions. We establish a hierarchy of analytical mean-field approximations…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-29 Jeremy B. Goetz , Naruepon Weerawongphrom , Rashid V. Williams-García , John M. Beggs , Gerardo Ortiz

Rich out of equilibrium collective dynamics of strongly interacting large assemblies emerge in many areas of science. Some intriguing and not fully understood examples are the glassy arrest in atomic, molecular or colloidal systems,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-03 Leticia F. Cugliandolo

The dynamics of neural networks is often characterized by collective behavior and quasi-synchronous events, where a large fraction of neurons fire in short time intervals, separated by uncorrelated firing activity. These global temporal…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-03 Raffaella Burioni , Mario Casartelli , Matteo di Volo , Roberto Livi , Alessandro Vezzani

Understanding the emergent macroscopic behavior of dynamical systems on networks is a crucial but challenging task. One of the simplest and most effective methods to construct a reduced macroscopic model is given by mean-field theory. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-19 Marvin Lücke , Stefanie Winkelmann , Péter Koltai

A number of recent papers have provided evidence that practical design questions about neural networks may be tackled theoretically by studying the behavior of random networks. However, until now the tools available for analyzing random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-19 Samuel S. Schoenholz , Jeffrey Pennington , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

Neural dynamics is determined by the transmission of discrete synaptic pulses (synaptic shot-noise) among neurons. However, the neural responses are usually obtained within the diffusion approximation modeling synaptic inputs as continuous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-17 Denis S. Goldobin , Maria V. Ageeva , Matteo di Volo , Ferdinand Tixidre , Alessandro Torcini

Neural networks are high-dimensional nonlinear dynamical systems that process information through the coordinated activity of many connected units. Understanding how biological and machine-learning networks function and learn requires…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-13 David G. Clark , L. F. Abbott , Ashok Litwin-Kumar

Networks of the brain are composed of a very large number of neurons connected through a random graph and interacting after random delays that both depend on the anatomical distance between cells. In order to comprehend the role of these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-16 Cristobal Quininao , Jonathan Touboul

The presence of correlated noise, arising from a mixture of independent fluctuations and a common noisy input shared across the neural population, is a ubiquitous feature of neural circuits, yet its impact on collective network dynamics…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-16 Hui Wang , Chunming Zheng

Deep neural networks (DNNs) in the infinite width/channel limit have received much attention recently, as they provide a clear analytical window to deep learning via mappings to Gaussian Processes (GPs). Despite its theoretical appeal, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Gadi Naveh , Zohar Ringel

Mean-field models provide a link between microscopic neuronal activity and macroscopic brain dynamics. Their derivation depends on simplifying assumptions, such as all-to-all connectivity, limiting their biological realism. To overcome…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-05 Martin Breyton , Viktor Sip , Marmaduke Woodman , Meysam Hashemi , Spase Petkoski , Viktor Jirsa

In a series of two papers, we investigate the large deviations and asymptotic behavior of stochastic models of brain neural networks with random interaction coefficients. In this first paper, we take into account the spatial structure of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-05 Tanguy Cabana , Jonathan Touboul

We consider a general class of stochastic networks and ask which network nodes need to be controlled, and how, to stabilize and switch between desired metastable (target) states in terms of the first and second statistical moments of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-07-20 Dmytro Bielievtsov , Josef Ladenbauer , Klaus Obermayer

We study the mean-field limit of a generic class of dynamic co-evolving latent space networks motivated by the social and opinion dynamics literature. Such models include $n$ agents, whose opinions are given by latent stochastic processes,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Ankan Ganguly , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos , Daniel Sussman

We derive a mean-field approximation for the macroscopic dynamics of large networks of pulse-coupled theta neurons in order to study the effects of different network degree distributions, as well as degree correlations (assortativity).…