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Synchronization is an essential property of engineered and natural networked dynamical systems. The Kuramoto model of nonlinear synchronization has been widely studied in applications including entrainment of clock cells in brain networks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-01 Dinuka Sahabandu , Andrew Clark , Linda Bushnell , Radha Poovendran

An interesting problem in synchronization is the study of coupled oscillators, wherein oscillators with different natural frequencies synchronize to a common frequency and equilibrium phase difference. In this paper, we investigate the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Vishaal Krishnan , Arun D. Mahindrakar , Somashekhar S. Hiremath

Synchronization in networks of coupled oscillators is a widely studied topic with extensive scientific and engineering applications. In this paper, we study the frequency synchronization problem for networks of Kuramoto oscillators with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Saber Jafarpour , Elizabeth Y. Huang , Francesco Bullo

We investigate synchronization in networks of Kuramoto oscillators with inertia. More specifically, we introduce a rewiring algorithm consisting basically in a {\em hill climb} scheme in which the edges of the network are swapped in order…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-08-01 Rafael S. Pinto , Alberto Saa

The understanding of synchronization ranging from natural to social systems has driven the interests of scientists from different disciplines. Here, we have investigated the synchronization dynamics of the Kuramoto dynamics departing from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-09-29 Jie Ren , Huijie Yang

We analyze populations of Kuramoto oscillators with a particular distribution of natural frequencies. Inspired by networks where there are two groups of nodes with opposite behaviors, as for instance in power-grids where energy is either…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-03-14 Lubos Buzna , Sergi Lozano , Albert Diaz-Guilera

Maintaining the stability of synchronization state is crucial for the functioning of many natural and artificial systems. In this study, we develop methods to optimize the synchronization stability of the Kuramoto model by minimizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Bo Li , K. Y. Michael Wong

We study a nonconvex optimization algorithmic approach to phase retrieval and the more general problem of semidefinite low-rank matrix sensing. Specifically, we analyze the nonconvex landscape of a quartic Burer-Monteiro factored…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Andrew D. McRae

The Kuramoto model is a classical nonlinear ODE system designed to study synchronization phenomena. Each equation represents the phase of an oscillator and the coupling between them is determined by a graph. There is an increasing interest…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Cecilia De Vita , Pablo Groisman , Ruojun Huang

We investigate the implementation of a new stochastic Kuramoto-Vicsek-type model for global optimization of nonconvex functions on the sphere. This model belongs to the class of Consensus-Based Optimization. In fact, particles move on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Massimo Fornasier , Hui Huang , Lorenzo Pareschi , Philippe Sünnen

The behavior of weakly coupled self-sustained oscillators can often be well described by phase equations. Here we use the paradigm of Kuramoto phase oscillators which are coupled in a network to calculate first and second order corrections…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-08-25 R. Toenjes , B. Blasius

We develop new tools to study landscapes in nonconvex optimization. Given one optimization problem, we pair it with another by smoothly parametrizing the domain. This is either for practical purposes (e.g., to use smooth optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Eitan Levin , Joe Kileel , Nicolas Boumal

Group synchronization aims to recover the group elements from their noisy pairwise measurements. It has found many applications in community detection, clock synchronization, and joint alignment problem. This paper focuses on the orthogonal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Shuyang Ling

Despite growing interest in synchronization dynamics over "higher-order" network models, optimization theory for such systems is limited. Here, we study a family of Kuramoto models inspired by algebraic topology in which oscillators are…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-12 Cameron Purple , Per Sebastian Skardal , Dane Taylor

Synchronization of non-identical oscillators coupled through complex networks is an important example of collective behavior. It is interesting to ask how the structural organization of network interactions influences this process. Several…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-09-13 Lia Papadopoulos , Jason Kim , Jurgen Kurths , Danielle S. Bassett

In this work, we study the synchronization of coupled phase oscillators on the underlying topology of scale-free networks. In particular, we assume that each network's component is an oscillator and that each interacts with the others…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yamir Moreno , Amalio F. Pacheco

We study the synchronization transition of Kuramoto oscillators in scale-free networks that are characterized by tunable local properties. Specifically, we perform a detailed finite size scaling analysis and inspect how the critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Yamir Moreno

Synchronization is a universal phenomenon found in many non-equilibrium systems. Much recent interest in this area has overlapped with the study of complex networks, where a major focus is determining how a system's connectivity patterns…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-08-19 Jason Hindes , Christopher R. Myers

We propose an infinite Kuramoto model for a countably infinite set of Kuramoto oscillators and study its emergent dynamics for two classes of network topologies. For a class of symmetric and row(or column)-summable network topology, we show…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Seung-Yeal Ha , Euntaek Lee , Woojoo Shim

In this letter we discuss a method for generating synchrony-optimized coupling architectures of Kuramoto oscillators with a heterogeneous distribution of native frequencies. The method allows us to relate the properties of the coupling…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Markus Brede