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We study emergent dynamics of the discrete Cucker-Smale (in short, DCS) model with randomly switching network topologies. For this, we provide a sufficient framework leading to the stochastic flocking with probability one. Our sufficient…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Jiu-Gang Dong , Seung-Yeal Ha , Jinwook Jung , Doheon Kim

We study the Cucker--Smale (C-S) flocking systems involving both singularity and noise. We first show the local strong well-posedness for the stochastic singular C-S systems before the first collision time, which is a well defined stopping…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Qiao Huang , Xiongtao Zhang

We study a variant of the Cucker-Smale system with distributed reaction delays. Using backward-forward and stability estimates on the quadratic velocity fluctuations we derive sufficient conditions for asymptotic flocking of the solutions.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Jan Haskovec , Ioannis Markou

We use topological data analysis and machine learning to study a seminal model of collective motion in biology [D'Orsogna et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006)]. This model describes agents interacting nonlinearly via attractive-repulsive…

Large animal groups -- bird flocks, fish schools, insect swarms -- are often assumed to form by gradual aggregation of sparsely distributed individuals. Using a mathematically precise framework based on time-varying directed interaction…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-02 Jidong Jin

We investigate the emergence of cohesive flocking in open, boundless space using a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework. Agents integrate positional and orientational information from their closest topological neighbours and learn…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-02 Martino Brambati , Antonio Celani , Marco Gherardi , Francesco Ginelli

We consider the problem of understanding the coordinated movements of biological or artificial swarms. In this regard, we propose a learning scheme to estimate the coordination laws of the interacting agents from observations of the swarm's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Christos Mavridis , Amoolya Tirumalai , John Baras

We study the existence and uniqueness of the time evolution of a system of infinitely many individuals, moving in a tunnel and subjected to a Cucker-Smale type alignment dynamics with compactly supported communication kernels and to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Paolo Buttà , Carlo Marchioro

We simulate the Vicsek model utilising topological neighbour interactions and estimate information theoretic quantities as a function of noise, the variability in the extent to which each animal aligns with its neighbours, and the flock…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Joshua Brown , Terry Bossomaier , Lionel Barnett

We perform a numerical analysis of a recent introduced model for describing collective movement in alarmed animals groups. This model, derived from a position-based interaction and a limited attention field, displays a non-equilibrium phase…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 A. M. Calvão , E. Brigatti

Collective movement is observed widely in nature, where individuals interact locally to produce globally ordered, coherent motion. In typical models of collective motion, each individual takes the average direction of multiple neighbors,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-23 Yogesh Kumar KC , Arshed Nabeel , Srikanth Iyer , Vishwesha Guttal

Many models of flocking involve alignment rules based on the mean orientation of neighboring particles, which we show introduces microscopic non-reciprocal interactions. In the absence of this microscopic non-reciprocity an exceptional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-19 Charles Packard , Daniel M. Sussman

We study the mean-field limit for a class of agent-based models describing flocking with nonlinear velocity alignment. Each agent interacts through a communication protocol $\phi$ and a non-linear coupling of velocities given by the power…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Vinh Nguyen , Roman Shvydkoy , Changhui Tan

We consider the Cucker-Smale system with multiplicative noise in a harmonic potential field and investigate the effect of harmonic potential field. In the presence of external potential force, the system is expected to emerge into almost…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Du Linglong , Zhou Xinyun

Natural flocks (aligned) and swarms (non-aligned) both exhibit features of near-criticality, challenging their treatment as two ends of the same phase transition. We present a model for the aggregation of active individuals, in which their…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-11-26 Joao Lizárraga , Marcus de Aguiar

A class of stochastic individual-based models, written in terms of coupled velocity jump processes, is presented and analysed. This modelling approach incorporates recent experimental findings on behaviour of locusts. It exhibits nontrivial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-14 Radek Erban , Jan Haskovec

We consider a collective behavior model in which individuals try to imitate each others' velocity and have a preferred speed. We show that a phase change phenomenon takes place as diffusion decreases, bringing the system from a "disordered"…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Alethea B. T. Barbaro , José A. Cañizo , José A. Carrillo , Pierre Degond

Collective dynamics of many interacting particles have been widely studied because of a wealth of their behavioral patterns quite different from the individual traits. A selective way of birds that reacts to their neighbors is one of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-05-04 Narina Jung , Byung Mook Weon , Pilwon Kim

We investigate the effects of long-range social interactions in flocking dynamics by studying the dynamics of a scalar model of collective motion embedded in a complex network representing a pattern of social interactions, as observed in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-23 M. Carmen Miguel , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

In two recent papers the authors study the existence of weak solutions and the hydrodynamic limit of kinetic flocking equations with strong local alignment. The introduction of a strong local alignment term to model flocking behavior was…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-21 Trygve Karper , Antoine Mellet , Konstantina Trivisa