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Deploying multi-robot systems in environments shared with dynamic and uncontrollable agents presents significant challenges, especially for large robot fleets. In such environments, individual robot operations can be delayed due to…

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We develop a continuum limit and mean-field theory for interacting particle systems (IPS) on self-similar networks, a new class of discrete models whose large-scale behavior gives rise to nonlocal evolution equations on fractal domains.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Georgi S. Medvedev

We study the evolution of the fastest paths (FP) in transportation networks under increasing congestion. Moving from the common edge-based to a path-based analysis, we examine the directed FPs connecting random origin-destination pairs as…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-05 Marco Cogoni , Giovanni Busonera , Enrico Gobbetti

Steering large-scale swarms with only limited control updates is often needed due to communication or computational constraints, yet most learning-based approaches do not account for this and instead model instantaneous velocity fields. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Anqi Dong , Yongxin Chen , Karl H. Johansson , Johan Karlsson

Several important learning tasks can be formulated as minimizing an entropy-regularized objective over an appropriate space of probability distributions. Mean-field Langevin dynamics (MFLD) facilitate computation in this general context,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zonghao Chen , Heishiro Kanagawa , François-Xavier Briol , Chris J. Oates , Lester Mackey

We present a method called Manifold Interpolating Optimal-Transport Flow (MIOFlow) that learns stochastic, continuous population dynamics from static snapshot samples taken at sporadic timepoints. MIOFlow combines dynamic models, manifold…

Mass segregation problem is thought to be entangled with the dynamical evolution of young stellar clusters \cite{olczak}. This is a common sense in the astrophysical community. In this work, the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-30 J. R. Steiner , Zolacir T. O.

A decentralized control system with linear dynamics, quadratic cost, and Gaussian disturbances is considered. The system consists of a finite number of subsystems whose dynamics and per-step cost function are coupled through their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-04 Jalal Arabneydi , Aditya Mahajan

We introduce Interleaved Gibbs Diffusion (IGD), a novel generative modeling framework for discrete-continuous data, focusing on problems with important, implicit and unspecified constraints in the data. Most prior works on discrete and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Gautham Govind Anil , Sachin Yadav , Dheeraj Nagaraj , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Prateek Jain

We propose the Mean-Field Actor-Critic (MFAC) flow, a continuous-time learning dynamics for solving mean-field games (MFGs), combining techniques from reinforcement learning and optimal transport. The MFAC framework jointly evolves the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Mo Zhou , Haosheng Zhou , Ruimeng Hu

Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) is a powerful theoretical framework for analyzing systems with many interacting degrees of freedom. This tutorial provides an accessible introduction to DMFT. We begin with a linear model where the DMFT…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-23 Emmy Blumenthal

Pre-trained diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative priors for both unconditional and conditional sample generation, yet their outputs often deviate from the characteristics of user-specific target data. Such mismatches are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Matina Mahdizadeh Sani , Nima Jamali , Mohammad Jalali , Farzan Farnia

A pathwise large deviation principle in the Wasserstein topology and a pathwise central limit theorem are proved for the empirical measure of a mean-field system of interacting diffusions. The coefficients are path-dependent. The framework…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Louis-Pierre Chaintron

Diffusion models generate samples by denoising along the score of a perturbed target distribution. In practice, one trains a neural diffusion model, which is computationally expensive. Recent work suggests that score matching implicitly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Zhenyu Yao , Daniel Paulin

This paper presents an MFG-based decision-making framework for autonomous driving in heterogeneous traffic. To capture diverse human behaviors, we propose a quantitative driving style representation that maps abstract traits to parameters…

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We investigate the matching of agents to resources in a computational ecology configured to present heterogeneous resource patches to evolving, neurally controlled agents. We repeatedly find a nearly optimal, ideal free distribution (IFD)…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-12-16 Virgil Griffith , Larry S. Yaeger

Simulating diverse and realistic traffic scenarios is critical for developing and testing autonomous planning. Traditional rule-based planners lack diversity and realism, while learning-based simulators often replay, forecast, or edit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Da Saem Lee , Akash Karthikeyan , Yash Vardhan Pant , Sebastian Fischmeister

Systematics contaminate observables, leading to distribution shifts relative to theoretically simulated signals-posing a major challenge for using pre-trained models to label such observables. Since systematics are often poorly understood…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Sultan Hassan , Sambatra Andrianomena , Benjamin D. Wandelt

In this article, we apply a probabilistic approach to study general mean field type control (MFTC) problems with jump-diffusions, and give the first global-in-time solution. We allow the drift coefficient $b$ and the diffusion coefficient…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Alain Bensoussan , Ziyu Huang , Shanjian Tang , Sheung Chi Phillip Yam

Standard methods used for computing the dynamics of a quantum many-body system are the mean-field (MF) approximations such as the time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) approach. Even though MF approaches are quite successful, they suffer some…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-13 Ibrahim Ulgen , Bulent Yilmaz , Denis Lacroix