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During the training of a reinforcement learning (RL) agent, the distribution of training data is non-stationary as the agent's behavior changes over time. Therefore, there is a risk that the agent is overspecialized to a particular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Qiang He , Huangyuan Su , Chen Gong , Xinwen Hou

In this paper, we address linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) risk-sensitive mean field games (MFGs) with common noise. In this framework agents are exposed to a common noise and aim to minimize an exponential cost functional that reflects…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Xin Yue Ren , Dena Firoozi

We study the dynamics of networks with inhibitory and excitatory leaky-integrate-and-fire neurons with short-term synaptic plasticity in the presence of depressive and facilitating mechanisms. The dynamics is analyzed by a Heterogeneous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-01-20 M. di Volo , R. Burioni , M. Casartelli , R. Livi , A. Vezzani

This paper evaluates the approach of imaging timeseries data such as EEG in the diagnosis of epilepsy through Deep Neural Network (DNN). EEG signal is transformed into an RGB image using Gramian Angular Summation Field (GASF). Many such EEG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 K. Palani Thanaraj , B. Parvathavarthini , U. John Tanik , V. Rajinikanth , Seifedine Kadry , K. Kamalanand

Large agent networks are abundant in applications and nature and pose difficult challenges in the field of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) due to their computational and theoretical complexity. While graphon mean field games and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Christian Fabian , Kai Cui , Heinz Koeppl

Sequences of interdependent geometric constraints are central to many multi-agent Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) problems. However, existing methods for handling such constraint sequences struggle with partially ordered tasks and dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Anastasios Manganaris , Jeremy Lu , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Suresh Jagannathan

State-space models are widely employed across various research disciplines to study unobserved dynamics. Conventional estimation techniques, such as Kalman filtering and expectation maximisation, offer valuable insights but incur high…

Computation · Statistics 2023-11-28 Jose M. Sanchez-Bornot , Roberto C. Sotero , Scott Kelso , Damien Coyle

The mean-field control problem for a multi-dimensional diffusion-aggregation system with Coulomb interaction (the so called parabolic elliptic Keller-Segel system) is considered. The existence of optimal control is proved through the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Li Chen , Yucheng Wang , Zhao Wang

Seizure activity is a ubiquitous and pernicious pathophysiology that, in principle, should yield to mathematical treatments of (neuronal) ensemble dynamics - and therefore interventions on stochastic chaos. A seizure can be characterised as…

Resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) in functional neuroimaging techniques have improved in brain disorders, dysfunction studies via mapping the topology of the brain connections, i.e. connectopic mapping. Since, there are the slight…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-18 Jalal Mirakhorli , Hamidreza Amindavar , Mojgan Mirakhorli

Epilepsy is a dynamic and complex neurological disease affecting about 1% of the worldwide population, among which 30% of the patients are drug-resistant. Epilepsy is characterized by recurrent episodes of paroxysmal neural discharges (the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-27 Elif Köksal Ersöz , Julien Modolo , Fabrice Bartolomei , Fabrice Wendling

In this paper we consider a mean field optimal control problem with an aggregation-diffusion constraint, where agents interact through a potential, in the presence of a Gaussian noise term. Our analysis focuses on a PDE system coupling a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Jose A. Carrillo , Edgard A. Pimentel , Vardan K. Voskanyan

Predicting seizure freedom is essential for tailoring epilepsy treatment. But accurate prediction remains challenging with traditional methods, especially with diverse patient populations. This study developed a deep learning-based graph…

Epilepsy is the second most common brain disorder after migraine. Automatic detection of epileptic seizures can considerably improve the patients' quality of life. Current Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based seizure detection systems encounter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-28 Ramy Hussein , Hamid Palangi , Rabab Ward , Z. Jane Wang

In clinical neuroscience, epileptic seizures have been associated with the sudden emergence of coupled activity across the brain. The resulting functional networks - in which edges indicate strong enough coupling between brain regions - are…

Applications · Statistics 2021-02-25 Xiaojing Zhu , Heather Shappell , Mark A. Kramer , Catherine J. Chu , Eric D. Kolaczyk

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder affecting more than 65 million people worldwide and manifested by recurrent unprovoked seizures. The unpredictability of seizures not only degrades the quality of life of the patients, but it can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-13 Damian Pascual , Amir Aminifar , David Atienza , Philippe Ryvlin , Roger Wattenhofer

We investigate the global numerical approximation of a class of extended mean field control problems (MFC), where the dynamics and costs depend on the joint distribution of the state and the control. We propose a framework to approximate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Athena Picarelli , Marco Scaratti , Jonathan Tam

We consider an optimal control problem where the average welfare of weakly interacting agents is of interest. We examine the mean-field control problem as the fluid approximation of the N-agent control problem with the setup of finite-state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Jingruo Sun

This paper investigates the control of a massive population of UAVs such as drones. The straightforward method of control of UAVs by considering the interactions among them to make a flock requires a huge inter-UAV communication which is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Hamid Shiri , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis

Prediction of epilepsy based on electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is a rapidly evolving field. Previous studies have traditionally applied 1D processing to the entire EEG signal. However, we have adopted the Gram Matrix method to transform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Bihao You , Jiping Cui