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We study second-order Consensus-Based Optimization (CBO), a derivative-free global optimization algorithm in which the consensus force and the multiplicative exploratory noise act on particle velocities. We prove quantitative…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Seung-Yeal Ha , Franca Hoffmann , Dohyeon Kim

We compare a mean-field Gibbs distribution on a finite state space on $N$ spins to that of an explicit simple mixture of product measures. This illustrates the situation beyond the so-called increasing propagation of chaos introduced by Ben…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Jonas Jalowy , Zakhar Kabluchko , Matthias Löwe

We develop a mean-field theory for large, non-exchangeable particle (agent) systems where the states and interaction weights co-evolve in a coupled system of SDEs. A first main result is the establishment of the propagation of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Datong Zhou

This paper develops a theory of propagation of chaos for a system of weakly interacting particles whose terminal configuration is fixed as opposed to the initial configuration as customary. Such systems are modeled by backward stochastic…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Mathieu Laurière , Ludovic Tangpi

We present a purely probabilistic proof of propagation of molecular chaos for $N$-particle systems in dimension $3$ with interaction forces scaling like $1/\vert q\vert^{\lambda}$ with $\lambda<2$ and cut-off at $q = N^{-1/3}$. The proof…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Niklas Boers , Peter Pickl

In this paper, a general result on the long time $\W_0$-$\widetilde{\W}_1$ type propagation of chaos, propagation of chaos with regularization effect, for mean field interacting particle system driven by L\'{e}vy noise is derived, where…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Xing Huang , Fen-Fen Yang , Chenggui Yuan

We prove propagation of chaos in the Random field mean-field Ising model, also known ad the Random field Curie-Weiss model. We show that in the paramagnetic phase, i.e.\ in the regime where temperature and distribution of the external field…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Matthias Löwe , Zakhar Kabluchko

We investigate increasing propagation of chaos for the mean-field Ising model of ferromagnetism (also known as the Curie-Weiss model) with $N$ spins at inverse temperature $\beta>0$ and subject to an external magnetic field of strength…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-12 Jonas Jalowy , Zakhar Kabluchko , Matthias Löwe , Alexander Marynych

We study the asymptotic behavior of the normalized maxima of real-valued diffusive particles with mean-field drift interaction. Our main result establishes propagation of chaos: in the large population limit, the normalized maxima behave as…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Nikolaos Kolliopoulos , Martin Larsson , Zeyu Zhang

We investigate Gibbs measures for diffusive particles interacting through a two-body mean field energy. By identifying a gradient structure for the conditional law, we derive sharp bounds on the size of chaos, providing a quantitative…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Zhenjie Ren , Songbo Wang

Based on a coupling approach, we prove uniform in time propagation of chaos for weakly interacting mean-field particle systems with possibly non-convex confinement and interaction potentials. The approach is based on a combination of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Alain Durmus , Andreas Eberle , Arnaud Guillin , Raphael Zimmer

In this article, we study the mean field limit of weakly interacting diffusions for confining and interaction potentials that are not necessarily convex. We explore the relationship between the large $N$ limit of the constant in the…

In this article we study a system of $N$ particles, each of them being defined by the couple of a position (in $\mathbb{R}^d$) and a so-called orientation which is an element of a compact Riemannian manifold. This orientation can be seen as…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Antoine Diez

The purpose of the present paper is to introduce and establish a notion of stability for the backward propagation of chaos with respect to (initial) data sets. Consider, for example, a sequence of discrete-time martingales converging to a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Antonis Papapantoleon , Alexandros Saplaouras , Stefanos Theodorakopoulos

We consider the error arising from the approximation of an N-particle dynamics with its description in terms of a one-particle kinetic equation. We estimate the distance between the j-marginal of the system and the factorized state,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Thierry Paul , Mario Pulvirenti , Sergio Simonella

In this article, we establish a propagation of chaos result for weakly interacting nonlinear Snell envelopes which converge to a class of mean-field reflected backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) with jumps and…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Boualem Djehiche , Roxana Dumitrescu , Jia Zeng

In this paper, the quantitative entropy-cost type propagation of chaos for mean field interacting particle system is obtained, where the interaction is only assumed to be bounded measurable and the initial distribution of a single particle…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Xing Huang

We prove the optimal rate of quantitative propagation of chaos, uniformly in time, for interacting diffusions. Our main examples are interactions governed by convex potentials and models on the torus with small interactions. We show that…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Daniel Lacker , Luc Le Flem

A new class of particle systems with sequential interaction is proposed to approximate the McKean-Vlasov process that originally arises as the limit of the mean-field interacting particle system. The weighted empirical measure of this…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Kai Du , Yifan Jiang , Xiaochen Li

In this paper, we study graphon mean field games using a system of forward-backward stochastic differential equations. We establish the existence and uniqueness of solutions under two different assumptions and prove the stability with…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Erhan Bayraktar , Ruoyu Wu , Xin Zhang