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Auto encoding models have been extensively studied in recent years. They provide an efficient framework for sample generation, as well as for analysing feature learning. Furthermore, they are efficient in performing interpolations between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-30 Adam Lindhe , Carl Ringqvist , Henrik Hult

Sampling-based controllers, such as Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) methods, offer substantial flexibility but often suffer from high variance and low sample efficiency. To address these challenges, we introduce a hybrid…

This paper studies the continuous-time q-learning in mean-field jump-diffusion models when the population distribution is not directly observable. We propose the integrated q-function in decoupled form (decoupled Iq-function) from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Xiaoli Wei , Xiang Yu , Fengyi Yuan

This paper studies large deviations of a ``fully coupled" finite state mean-field interacting particle system in a fast varying environment. The empirical measure of the particles evolves in the slow time scale and the random environment…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Sarath Yasodharan , Rajesh Sundaresan

We study a sequential system of interacting diffusions in which particle $i$ interacts only with its predecessors through the empirical measure $\mu_t^{i-1}$, yielding a directed, non-exchangeable mean-field approximation of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Zhenfu Wang , Xianliang Zhao

The driven transport of plastic systems in various disordered backgrounds is studied within mean field theory. Plasticity is modeled using non-convex interparticle potentials that allow for phase slips. This theory most naturally describes…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Karl Saunders , J. M. Schwarz , M. Cristina Marchetti , A. Alan Middleton

We introduce Guided Harmonic Path-Integral Diffusion (GH-PID), a linearly-solvable framework for guided Stochastic Optimal Transport (SOT) with a hard terminal distribution and soft, application-driven path costs. A low-dimensional guidance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Michael Chertkov

Mean Field Games (MFG) theory describes strategic interactions in differential games with a large number of small and indistinguishable players. Traditionally, the players' control impacts only the drift term in the system's dynamics,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Vincenzo Ignazio , Michele Ricciardi

With the increased penetrations of distributed energy resources (DERs), the need for integrated transmission and distribution system analysis (T&D) is imperative. This paper presents an integrated unbalanced T&D analysis framework using an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Gayathri Krishnamoorthy , Anamika Dubey

In this paper, we study a large population game with heterogeneous dynamics and cost functions solving a consensus problem. Moreover, the agents have communication constraints which appear as: (1) an Additive-White Gaussian Noise (AWGN)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-26 Shubham Aggarwal , Muhammad Aneeq uz Zaman , Tamer Başar

We study energy transport in the paradigmatic Hamiltonian mean-field (HMF) model and other related long-range interacting models using molecular dynamics simulations. We show that energy diffusion in the HMF model is subdiffusive in nature,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-13 Debarshee Bagchi

We introduce a mean-field framework for the study of systems of interacting particles sharing a conserved quantity. The work generalises and unites the existing fields of asset-exchange models, often applied to socio-economic systems, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-14 Dominic T Robson , Andreas CW Baas , Alessia Annibale

Diffusion models suffer from slow sample generation at inference time. Therefore, developing a principled framework for fast deterministic/stochastic sampling for a broader class of diffusion models is a promising direction. We propose two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Kushagra Pandey , Maja Rudolph , Stephan Mandt

Mean field games (MFGs) are a promising framework for modeling the behavior of large-population systems. However, solving MFGs can be challenging due to the coupling of forward population evolution and backward agent dynamics. Typically,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chenyu Zhang , Xu Chen , Xuan Di

Population synthesis is a critical task that involves generating synthetic yet realistic representations of populations. It is a fundamental problem in agent-based modeling (ABM), which has become the standard to analyze intelligent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Min Tang , Peng Lu , Qing Feng

In the stochastic mean-field (SMF) approach, an ensemble of initial values for a selected set of one-body observables is formed by stochastic sampling from a phase-space distribution that reproduces the initial quantum fluctuations.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Bulent Yilmaz , Denis Lacroix , Resul Curebal

In this manuscript, we introduce a novel Decision Flow (DF) framework for sampling decisions from a target distribution while incorporating additional guidance from a prior sampler. DF can be viewed as an AI-driven algorithmic reincarnation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Michael Chertkov , Sungsoo Ahn , Hamidreza Behjoo

A thermodynamic approach to rapid phase transformations within a diffuse interface in a binary system is developed. Assuming an extended set of independent thermodynamic variables formed by the union of the classic set of slow variables and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter Galenko , David Jou

A multi-agent model for individuals endowed with strategies and subject to diffusive effects is proposed. The microscopic state of each agent is described by a spatial position and a probability measure, interpreted as a mixed strategy,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Alessandro Baldi , Marco Morandotti

One-step generative modeling has emerged as a leading approach to amortize the inference cost of diffusion and flow-matching models. Among distillation-free methods, MeanFlow training is notoriously unstable, with non-decreasing loss and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Juanwu Lu , Ziran Wang
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