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In the presence of heterogeneous data, where randomly rotated objects fall into multiple underlying categories, it is challenging to simultaneously classify them into clusters and synchronize them based on pairwise relations. This gives…

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We establish a correspondence between anomaly detection in high-noise regimes and the renormalization group flow of non-equilibrium field theories. We provide a physical grounding for this framework by proving that the detection of phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-25 Riccardo Finotello , Vincent Lahoche , Parham Radpay , Dine Ousmane Samary

A geometric approach is introduced for understanding the phenomenon of phase synchronization in coupled nonlinear systems in the presence of additive noise. We show that the emergence of cooperative behaviour through a change of stability…

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We study the phase synchronization between collective rhythms of fully locked oscillator groups. For weakly interacting groups of two oscillators with global sinusoidal coupling, we analytically derive the collective phase coupling…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-05-01 Yoji Kawamura

Community detection is a fundamental problem in network analysis which is made more challenging by overlaps between communities which often occur in practice. Here we propose a general, flexible, and interpretable generative model for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-16 Yuan Zhang , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Group synchronization is a fundamental task involving the recovery of group elements from pairwise measurements. For orthogonal group synchronization, the most common approach reformulates the problem as a constrained nonconvex optimization…

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Permutation synchronization is an important problem in computer science that constitutes the key step of many computer vision tasks. The goal is to recover $n$ latent permutations from their noisy and incomplete pairwise measurements. In…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Duc Nguyen , Anderson Ye Zhang

We develop a renormalization group method to investigate synchronization clusters in a one-dimensional chain of nearest-neighbor coupled phase oscillators. The method is best suited for chains with strong disorder in the intrinsic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-11-28 Oleg Kogan , Jeffrey L. Rogers , M. C. Cross , G. Refael

Consider a network consisting of two subnetworks (communities) connected by some external edges. Given the network topology, the community detection problem can be cast as a graph partitioning problem that aims to identify the external…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Pin-Yu Chen , Alfred O. Hero

This paper argues that the ideas underlying the renormalization group technique used to characterize phase transitions in condensed matter systems could be useful for distinguishing computational complexity classes. The paper presents a…

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The fundamental task of group testing is to recover a small distinguished subset of items from a large population while efficiently reducing the total number of tests (measurements). The key contribution of this paper is in adopting a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 George Kamal Atia , Venkatesh Saligrama

We present an approach which enables to identify phase synchronization in coupled chaotic oscillators without having to explicitly measure the phase. We show that if one defines a typical event in one oscillator and then observes another…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Pereira , M. S. Baptista , J. Kurths

The Vicsek model has long stood as a pivotal framework in exploring collective behavior and self-organization, captivating the scientific community with its compelling dynamics. However, understanding how noise influences synchronization…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Wei Su , Yongguang Yu , Ge Chen

In this work, a new low complexity iterative algorithm for decoding data transmitted over strong phase noise channels is presented. The algorithm is based on the Sum & Product Algorithm (SPA) with phase noise messages modeled as Tikhonov…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-25 Shachar Shayovitz , Dan Rapaheli

Partitioning large networks into stable clusters of synchronized nodes is a challenging task. Recent approaches based on spectral analysis can provide exact results on specific dynamics but remain unfeasible for very large networks.…

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Atomic projection noise limits the ultimate precision of all atomic sensors, including clocks, inertial sensors, magnetometers, etc. The independent quantum collapse of $N$ atoms into a definite state (for example spin up or down) leads to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Kevin C. Cox , Joshua M. Weiner , Graham P. Greve , James K. Thompson

We make a short review about the synchronization in coupled phase oscillator models. Next, we study the common-noise-induced synchronization among active rotators. At an intermediate noise strength, the noise-induced synchronization takes…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-13 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi

To learn and reason in the presence of uncertainty, the brain must be capable of imposing some form of regularization. Here we suggest, through theoretical and computational arguments, that the combination of noise with synchronization…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-12-06 Jake Bouvrie , Jean-Jacques Slotine

We consider the problem of estimating common community structures in multi-layer stochastic block models, where each single layer may not have sufficient signal strength to recover the full community structure. In order to efficiently…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Jing Lei , Kevin Z. Lin

Clustering data objects into homogeneous groups is one of the most important tasks in data mining. Spectral clustering is arguably one of the most important algorithms for clustering, as it is appealing for its theoretical soundness and is…

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