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Modeling multi-agent systems on networks is a fundamental challenge in a wide variety of disciplines. Given data consisting of multiple trajectories, we jointly infer the (weighted) network and the interaction kernel, which determine,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-24 Quanjun Lang , Xiong Wang , Fei Lu , Mauro Maggioni

In this paper, we tackle a critical issue in nonparametric inference for systems of interacting particles on Riemannian manifolds: the identifiability of the interaction functions. Specifically, we define the function spaces on which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Sui Tang , Malik Tuerkoen , Hanming Zhou

We consider stochastic systems of interacting particles or agents, with dynamics determined by an interaction kernel which only depends on pairwise distances. We study the problem of inferring this interaction kernel from observations of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Fei Lu , Mauro Maggioni , Sui Tang

Mean-field control (MFC) problems aim to find the optimal policy to control massive populations of interacting agents. These problems are crucial in areas such as economics, physics, and biology. We consider the non-local setting, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Alexander Vidal , Samy Wu Fung , Stanley Osher , Luis Tenorio , Levon Nurbekyan

This paper presents a PDE-based auto-aggregation model for simulating descriptive norm dynamics in autonomous multi-agent systems, capturing convergence and violation through non-local perception kernels and external potential fields.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Chao Li , Ilia Derevitskii , Sergey Kovalchuk

Existing multi-agent reinforcement learning methods are limited typically to a small number of agents. When the agent number increases largely, the learning becomes intractable due to the curse of the dimensionality and the exponential…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Yaodong Yang , Rui Luo , Minne Li , Ming Zhou , Weinan Zhang , Jun Wang

Mean field approximation is a powerful technique to study the performance of large stochastic systems represented as $n$ interacting objects. Applications include load balancing models, epidemic spreading, cache replacement policies, or…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Sebastian Allmeier , Nicolas Gast

Neural operator approximations of the gain kernels in PDE backstepping has emerged as a viable method for implementing controllers in real time. With such an approach, one approximates the gain kernel, which maps the plant coefficient into…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Luke Bhan , Yuanyuan Shi , Miroslav Krstic

Ordinary differential equation (ODE) is widely used in modeling biological and physical processes in science. In this article, we propose a new reproducing kernel-based approach for estimation and inference of ODE given noisy observations.…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-26 Xiaowu Dai , Lexin Li

Reaction-diffusion models are used to describe systems in fields as diverse as physics, chemistry, ecology and biology. The fundamental quantities in such models are individual entities such as atoms and molecules, bacteria, cells or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Fabian Spill , Pilar Guerrero , Tomas Alarcon , Philip K. Maini , Helen Byrne

We consider a one-dimensional McKean-Vlasov SDE on a domain and the associated mean-field interacting particle system. The peculiarity of this system is the combination of the interaction, which keeps the average position prescribed, and…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Michele Coghi , Wolfgang Dreyer , Paul Gajewski , Clemens Guhlke , Peter Friz , Mario Maurelli

We consider first-order conservative systems of particles with binary Coulomb interactions in the mean-field scaling regime in dimensions $d\geq 3$. We show that if at some time, the associated sequence of empirical measures converges in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Matthew Rosenzweig

There has been recent progress on the problem of inferring the structure of interactions in complex networks when they are in stationary states satisfying detailed balance, but little has been done for non-equilibrium systems. Here we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-02-01 Yasser Roudi , John A. Hertz

We consider a system of $N$ interacting particles, governed by transport and diffusion, that converges in a mean-field limit to the solution of a McKean-Vlasov equation. From the observation of a trajectory of the system over a fixed time…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Laetitia Della Maestra , Marc Hoffmann

We study two interacting particle systems, both modeled as a system of $N$ stochastic differential equations driven by Brownian motions with singular kernels and moderate interaction. We show a quantitative result where the convergence rate…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Josué Knorst , Christian Olivera , Alexandre B. de Souza

A multi-scale meshfree particle method for macroscopic mean field approximations of generalized interacting particle models is developed and investigated. The method is working in a uniform way for large and small interaction radii. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-10 Axel Klar , Sudarshan Tiwari

In many applications of machine learning, a large number of variables are considered. Motivated by machine learning of interacting particle systems, we consider the situation when the number of input variables goes to infinity. First, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Christian Fiedler , Michael Herty , Sebastian Trimpe

Kernel methods, being supported by a well-developed theory and coming with efficient algorithms, are among the most popular and successful machine learning techniques. From a mathematical point of view, these methods rest on the concept of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-20 Christian Fiedler , Michael Herty , Michael Rom , Chiara Segala , Sebastian Trimpe

This paper investigates the use of transformers to approximate the mean-field dynamics of interacting particle systems exhibiting collective behavior. Such systems are fundamental in modeling phenomena across physics, biology, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Shiba Biswal , Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Rishi Sonthalia

We consider a large number $N$ of quantum particles coupled via a mean field interaction to another quantum system (reservoir). Our main result is an expansion for the averages of observables, both of the particles and of the reservoir, in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Marco Merkli , Alireza Rafiyi