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Deep generative models have gained recent traction in accelerated MRI reconstruction. Diffusion priors are particularly promising given their representational fidelity. Instead of the target transformation from undersampled to fully-sampled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Muhammad U. Mirza , Onat Dalmaz , Hasan A. Bedel , Gokberk Elmas , Yilmaz Korkmaz , Alper Gungor , Salman UH Dar , Tolga Çukur

Mean field game (MFG) is an expressive modeling framework for systems with a continuum of interacting agents. While many approaches exist for solving the forward MFG, few have studied its \textit{inverse} problem. In this work, we seek to…

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We propose a data-driven framework to learn interaction kernels in stochastic multi-agent systems. Our approach aims at identifying the functional form of nonlocal interaction and diffusion terms directly from trajectory data, without any a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Giacomo Albi , Alessandro Alla , Elisa Calzola

A mean-field selective optimal control problem of multipopulation dynamics via transient leadership is considered. The agents in the system are described by their spatial position and their probability of belonging to a certain population.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Giacomo Albi , Stefano Almi , Marco Morandotti , Francesco Solombrino

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…

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Recently there is a rising interest in the research of mean field optimization, in particular because of its role in analyzing the training of neural networks. In this paper by adding the Fisher Information as the regularizer, we relate the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Julien Claisse , Giovanni Conforti , Zhenjie Ren , Songbo Wang

Schr\"odinger Bridge (SB) is an entropy-regularized optimal transport problem that has received increasing attention in deep generative modeling for its mathematical flexibility compared to the Scored-based Generative Model (SGM). However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-04 Tianrong Chen , Guan-Horng Liu , Evangelos A. Theodorou

The optimal transport problem has recently developed into a powerful framework for various applications in estimation and control. Many of the recent advances in the theory and application of optimal transport are based on regularizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Isabel Haasler , Axel Ringh , Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson

The mean field limits of systems of interacting diffusions (also called stochastic interacting particle systems (SIPS)) have been intensively studied since McKean \cite{mckean1966class}. The interacting diffusions pave a way to…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Lukasz Szpruch , Shuren Tan , Alvin Tse

Computed tomography (CT) is a cornerstone imaging modality for non-invasive, high-resolution visualization of internal anatomical structures. However, when the scanned object exceeds the scanner's field of view (FOV), projection data are…

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Recently, a series of papers proposed deep learning-based approaches to sample from target distributions using controlled diffusion processes, being trained only on the unnormalized target densities without access to samples. Building on…

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Monge-Kantorovich optimal mass transport (OMT) provides a blueprint for geometries in the space of positive densities -- it quantifies the cost of transporting a mass distribution into another. In particular, it provides natural options for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Michele Pavon

We propose a policy iteration method to solve an inverse problem for a mean-field game (MFG) model, specifically to reconstruct the obstacle function in the game from the partial observation data of value functions, which represent the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Kui Ren , Nathan Soedjak , Shanyin Tong

We study the mean-field limit of a model of biological neuron networks based on the so-called stochastic integrate-and-fire (IF) dynamics. Our approach allows to derive a continuous limit for the macroscopic behavior of the system, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin , Datong Zhou

This paper is devoted to the numerical resolution of McKean-Vlasov control problems via the class of mean-field neural networks introduced in our companion paper [25] in order to learn the solution on the Wasserstein space. We propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Huyên Pham , Xavier Warin

In this paper, we propose a new combined message passing algorithm which allows belief propagation (BP) and mean filed (MF) applied on a same factor node, so that MF can be applied to hard constraint factors. Based on the proposed message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Chuanzong Zhang , Zhengdao Yuan , Zhongyong Wang , Qinghua Guo

We study the subclass of potential mean-field games in which the running interaction cost and the terminal target cost are both expressed through reproducing-kernel maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) penalties, and develop a computational…

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