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When the interactions of agents on a network are assumed to follow the Deffuant opinion dynamics model, the outcomes are known to depend on the structure of the underlying network. This behavior cannot be captured by existing mean-field…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-03 Susan C. Fennell , Kevin Burke , Michael Quayle , James P. Gleeson

We study the approximation gap between the dynamics of a polynomial-width neural network and its infinite-width counterpart, both trained using projected gradient descent in the mean-field scaling regime. We demonstrate how to tightly bound…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-25 Margalit Glasgow , Denny Wu , Joan Bruna

Physics-informed neural networks are developed to characterize the state of dynamical systems in a random environment. The neural network approximates the probability density function (pdf) or the characteristic function (chf) of the state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Wayne Isaac Tan Uy , Mircea Grigoriu

Recent research has been focused on two different approaches to studying neural networks training in the limit of infinite width (1) a mean-field (MF) and (2) a constant neural tangent kernel (NTK) approximations. These two approaches have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Eugene A. Golikov

Compressing large Neural Networks (NN) by quantizing the parameters, while maintaining the performance is highly desirable due to reduced memory and time complexity. In this work, we cast NN quantization as a discrete labelling problem, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Puneet K. Dokania , Richard Hartley , Philip H. S. Torr

We introduce a mean-field term to an evolutionary spatial game model. Namely, we consider the game of Nowak and May, based on the Prisoner's dilemma, and augment the game rules by a self-consistent mean-field term. This way, an agent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-29 Dmitriy Antonov , Evgeni Burovski , Lev Shchur

In a first step towards the comprehension of neural activity, one should focus on the stability of the various dynamical states. Even the characterization of idealized regimes, such as a perfectly periodic spiking activity, reveals…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-09-08 Simona Olmi , Antonio Politi , Alessandro Torcini

Recent studies have suggested that the cognitive process of the human brain is realized as probabilistic inference and can be further modeled by probabilistic graphical models like Markov random fields. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-13 Yajing Zheng , Shanshan Jia , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang , Jian K. Liu , Yonghong Tian

The highly irregular spiking activity of cortical neurons and behavioral variability suggest that the brain could operate in a fundamentally probabilistic way. Mimicking how the brain implements and learns probabilistic computation could be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yang Qi , Zhichao Zhu , Yiming Wei , Lu Cao , Zhigang Wang , Jie Zhang , Wenlian Lu , Jianfeng Feng

Despite the incredible complexity of our brains' neural networks, theoretical descriptions of neural dynamics have led to profound insights into possible network states and dynamics. It remains challenging to develop theories that apply to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-06 Jonas Ranft , Benjamin Lindner

We extend the theory of neural fields which has been developed in a deterministic framework by considering the influence spatio-temporal noise. The outstanding problem that we here address is the development of a theory that gives rigorous…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-22 Olivier Faugeras , James Inglis

We consider the problem of a subnetwork of observed nodes embedded into a larger bulk of unknown (i.e. hidden) nodes, where the aim is to infer these hidden states given information about the subnetwork dynamics. The biochemical networks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-23 Barbara Bravi , Peter Sollich

We introduce a minimal model description for the dynamics of transcriptional regulatory networks. It is studied within a mean-field approximation, i.e., by deterministic ode's representing the reaction kinetics, and by stochastic…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 R. Blossey , C. V. Giuraniuc

This paper investigates the controllability of a broad class of recurrent neural networks widely used in theoretical neuroscience, including models of large-scale human brain dynamics. Motivated by emerging applications in non-invasive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Cyprien Tamekue , Ruiqi Chen , ShiNung Ching

Opinion and belief dynamics are a central topic in the study of social interactions through dynamical systems. In this work, we study a model where, at each discrete time, all the agents update their opinion as an average of their intrinsic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Javiera Gutiérrez-Ramírez , David Salas , Victor Verdugo

We propose stochastic, non-parametric activation functions that are fully learnable and individual to each neuron. Complexity and the risk of overfitting are controlled by placing a Gaussian process prior over these functions. The result is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-01 Sebastian Urban , Marcus Basalla , Patrick van der Smagt

We investigate the mean-field dynamics of stochastic McKean differential equations with heterogeneous particle interactions described by large network structures. To express a wide range of graphs, from dense to sparse structures, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Christian Kuehn , Tobias Wöhrer

These notes attempt a self-contained introduction into statistical field theory applied to neural networks of rate units and binary spins. The presentation consists of three parts: First, the introduction of fundamental notions of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-05-18 Moritz Helias , David Dahmen

We present an analytic mean field theory for relaxational dynamics in spatially extended systems that undergo purely noise-induced phase transitions to ordered states. The theory augments the usual mean field approach with a Gaussian ansatz…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-04-14 F. J. Cao , K. Wood , K. Lindenberg

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are widely regarded as a biologically-inspired and energy-efficient alternative to classical artificial neural networks. Yet, their theoretical foundations remain only partially understood. In this work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Umberto Biccari