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The characterization of the "most connected" nodes in static or slowly evolving complex networks has helped in understanding and predicting the behavior of social, biological, and technological networked systems, including their robustness…

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For a long time, detection and parameter estimation methods for signal processing have relied on asymptotic statistics as the number $n$ of observations of a population grows large comparatively to the population size $N$, i.e. $n/N\to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-20 Romain Couillet , Merouane Debbah

We present a general theory for the onset of coherence in collections of heterogeneous maps interacting via a complex connection network. Our method allows the dynamics of the individual uncoupled systems to be either chaotic or periodic,…

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We consider large-scale Markov decision processes (MDPs) with a risk measure of variability in cost, under the risk-aware MDPs paradigm. Previous studies showed that risk-aware MDPs, based on a minimax approach to handling risk, can be…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Pengqian Yu , William B. Haskell , Huan Xu

People organize in groups and contagions spread across them. A simple stochastic process, yet complex to model due to dynamical correlations within and between groups. Moreover, groups can evolve if agents join or leave in response to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-22 Giulio Burgio , Guillaume St-Onge , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne

In this paper, we develop asymptotic theories for a class of latent variable models for large-scale multi-relational networks. In particular, we establish consistency results and asymptotic error bounds for the (penalized) maximum…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Zhi Wang , Xueying Tang , Jingchen Liu

Many mathematical models of interacting agents assume that individual interactions scale down in proportion to the network size, ensuring that the combined input received from the network does not diverge. In theoretical neuroscience,…

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Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are complex dynamical systems, capable of ongoing activity without any driving input. The long-term behavior of free-running RNNs, described by periodic, chaotic and fixed point attractors, is controlled by…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-06 Claus Metzner , Patrick Krauss

Complex network theory provides a unifying framework for the study of structured dynamic systems. The current literature emphasizes a widely reported phenomenon of intermittent interaction among network vertices. In this paper, we introduce…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Ziyan Zeng , Minyu Feng , Pengfei Liu , Jurgen Kurths

Sensitivity to small changes in the environment is crucial for many real-world tasks, enabling living and artificial systems to make correct behavioral decisions. It has been shown that such sensitivity is maximized when a system operates…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-11 Sahel Azizpour , Viola Priesemann , Johannes Zierenberg , Anna Levina

The control of complex systems is an ongoing challenge of complexity research. Recent advances using concepts of structural control deduce a wide range of control related properties from the network representation of complex systems. Here,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-31 Márton Pósfai , Philipp Hövel

The Naming Game is a model of non-equilibrium dynamics for the self-organized emergence of a linguistic convention or a communication system in a population of agents with pairwise local interactions. We present an extensive study of its…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Luca Dall'Asta , Andrea Baronchelli , Alain Barrat , Vittorio Loreto

Binary mixtures growing on small-world networks under far-from-equilibrium conditions are studied by means of extensive Monte Carlo simulations. For any positive value of the shortcut fraction of the network ($p>0$), the system undergoes a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Julián Candia

The operating status of power systems is influenced by growing varieties of factors, resulting from the developing sizes and complexity of power systems; in this situation, the modelbased methods need be revisited. A data-driven method, as…

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Inspired by the importance of inhibitory and excitatory couplings in the brain, we analyze the largest eigenvalue statistics of random networks incorporating such features. We find that the largest real part of eigenvalues of a network,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-04-30 Sanjiv Kumar Dwivedi , Sarika Jalan

Many models for chaotic systems consist of joining two integrable systems with incompatible constants of motion. The quantum counterparts of such models have a propagator which factorizes into two integrable parts. Each part can be…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomaz Prosen , Thomas H. Seligman , Hans A. Weidenmueller

We study synchronization in scalar nonlinear systems connected over a linear network with stochastic uncertainty in their interactions. We provide a sufficient condition for the synchronization of such network systems expressed in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-20 Amit Diwadkar , Umesh Vaidya

Biologists and physicists have a rich tradition of modeling living systems with simple models composed of a few interacting components. Despite the remarkable success of this approach, it remains unclear how to use such finely tuned models…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Ilya Nemenman , Pankaj Mehta

People organize in groups and contagions spread across them. A simple process, but complex to model due to dynamical correlations within groups and between groups. Groups can also change as agents join and leave them to avoid infection. To…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-24 Giulio Burgio , Guillaume St-Onge , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne