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The aim of this note is to revisit propagation of chaos for a Langevin-type interacting particle system used for sampling probability measures. The interacting particle system we consider coincides, in the setting of a log-quadratic target…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-11 U Vaes

In this article we show, in a concise manner, a result of uniform in time propagation of chaos for non exchangeable systems of particles interacting according to a random graph. Provided the interaction is Lipschitz continuous, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Pierre Le Bris , Christophe Poquet

We consider backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) with mean-field and McKean-Vlasov interactions in their generators in a general setting, where the drivers are square-integrable martingales, with a focus on the independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Antonis Papapantoleon , Alexandros Saplaouras , Stefanos Theodorakopoulos

Mean-field Langevin dynamics (MFLD) is an optimization method derived by taking the mean-field limit of noisy gradient descent for two-layer neural networks in the mean-field regime. Recently, the propagation of chaos (PoC) for MFLD has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-19 Atsushi Nitanda , Anzelle Lee , Damian Tan Xing Kai , Mizuki Sakaguchi , Taiji Suzuki

We study a stochastic perturbation of the Nos\'e-Hoover equation (called the Nos\'e-Hoover equation under Brownian heating) and show that the dynamics converges at a geometric rate to the augmented Gibbs measure in a weighted total…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-25 David P. Herzog

A model for the evolution of a large population interacting system is considered in which a marked Poisson processes influences their evolution, together with a Brownian motion. Mean field McKean-Vlasov limits of such system are formulated…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Daniel Hernández-Hernández , Joshué Helí Ricalde-Guerrero

We study the derivative-free global optimization algorithm Consensus-Based Optimization (CBO), establishing uniform-in-time propagation of chaos as well as an almost uniform-in-time stability result for the microscopic particle system.…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Nicolai Gerber , Franca Hoffmann , Dohyeon Kim , Urbain Vaes

We consider the problem of disorder chaos in the spherical mean-field model. It is concerned about the behavior of the overlap between two independently sampled spin configurations from two Gibbs measures with the same external parameters.…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Wei-Kuo Chen , Hsi-Wei Hsieh , Chii-Ruey Hwang , Yuan-Chung Sheu

We study a stochastic system of $N$ interacting particles which models bimolecular chemical reaction-diffusion. In this model, each particle $i$ carries two attributes: the spatial location $X_t^i\in \mathbb{T}^d$, and the type $\Xi_t^i\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Tau Shean Lim , Yulong Lu , James Nolen

We study the uniform-in-time weak propagation of chaos for the consensus-based optimization (CBO) method on a bounded searching domain. We apply the methodology for studying long-time behaviors of interacting particle systems developed in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Erhan Bayraktar , Ibrahim Ekren , Hongyi Zhou

We study canonical-equilibrium properties of Random Field $O(n)$ Models involving classical continuous vector spins of $n$ components with mean-field interactions and subject to disordered fields acting on individual spins. To this end, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-07 Soumya Kanti Pal , Shamik Gupta

We study 1-Wasserstein propagation of chaos for "McKean-type" nonlinear Markov chains and their associated interacting particle systems. This paper is organized into two parts: the first part combines arguments from various areas of…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-10 James Vuckovic

We consider a $N$-particle model describing an alignment mechanism due to a topological interaction among the agents. We show that the kinetic equation, expected to hold in the mean-field limit $N \to \infty$, as following from the previous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 Pierre Degond , Mario Pulvirenti

A Langevin equation is suggested to describe a system driven by correlated Gaussian white noise as well as with positive and negative damping demarcated by a critical velocity. The equation can be transformed into the Fokker-Planck equation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-11 Peng Wang , Feng-Chun Pan , Jie Huo , Xu-Ming Wang

In this paper, quantitative propagation of chaos in $L^\eta$($\eta\in(0,1]$)-Wasserstein distance for mean field interacting particle system is derived, where the diffusion coefficient is allowed to be interacting and the initial…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Xing Huang

We consider the 3D Landau equation for moderately soft potentials ($\gamma\in(-2,0)$ with the usual notation) as well as a stochastic system of $N$ particles approximating it. We first establish some strong/weak stability estimates for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Nicolas Fournier , Maxime Hauray

In this note, we clarify the well-posedness of the limit equations to the mean-field $N$-neuron models proposed in Baladron et al. and we prove the associated propagation of chaos property. We also complete the modeling issue in Baladron et…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Mireille Bossy , Olivier Faugeras , Denis Talay

We consider large systems of particles interacting through rough but bounded interaction kernels. We are able to control the relative entropy between the $N$-particle distribution and the expected limit which solves the corresponding Vlasov…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin , Zhenfu Wang

As an example of the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation, the mean field Langevin dynamics recently attracts attention due to its connection to (noisy) gradient descent on infinitely wide neural networks in the mean field regime, and hence the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Mohamed Alfaki Aboubacrine Assadek

Combining the results of [14] and [10], the trend to equilibrium in large time is studied for a large particle system associated to a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation. Under some conditions (that allow non-convex confining potentials) the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Arnaud Guillin , Pierre Monmarché