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A recently proposed dimensional reduction approach for studying synchronization in the Kuramoto model is employed to build optimal network topologies to favor or to suppress synchronization. The approach is based in the introduction of a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-12-02 Rafael S. Pinto , Alberto Saa

Kuramoto model is one of the most prominent models for the synchronization of coupled oscillators. It has long been a research hotspot to understand how natural frequencies, the interaction between oscillators, and network topology…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-04-08 Shuyang Ling

Sparse, irregular graphs show up in various applications like linear algebra, machine learning, engineering simulations, robotic control, etc. These graphs have a high degree of parallelism, but their execution on parallel threads of modern…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Nimish Shah , Wannes Meert , Marian Verhelst

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

The Kuramoto model (KM) of coupled phase oscillators on scale free graphs is analyzed in this work. The W-random graph model is used to define a convergent family of sparse graphs with power law degree distribution. For the KM on this…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-05-16 Georgi S. Medvedev , Xuezhi Tang

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

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

The Kuramoto model is one of the most widely studied model for describing synchronization behaviors in a network of coupled oscillators, and it has found a wide range of applications. Finding all possible frequency synchronization…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Tianran Chen

We study the homogeneous Kuramoto model on a graph and the geometry of its underlying optimization landscape $\min_{\boldsymbol \theta \in \mathbb R^n}-\sum_{1\leq i,j\leq n} A_{ij}\cos(\theta_i-\theta_j).$ This problem admits a dual…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Hongjin Wu , Ulrik Brandes

Synchronization is a fundamental phenomenon in complex systems, observed across a wide range of natural and engineered contexts. The Kuramoto model provides a foundational framework for understanding synchronization among coupled…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-03 Riccardo Muolo , Hiroya Nakao , Marco Coraggio

We aim to learn a sparse and connected graph from sparse data, where the number of observations K can be substantially smaller than the signal dimension N for signals x in R^N, and the underlying distribution is unknown. In this severely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Bahar Oveisgharan , Gene Cheung , Andrew Eckford

Many real-world systems of coupled agents exhibit directed interactions, meaning that the influence of an agent on another is not reciprocal. Furthermore, interactions usually do not have identical amplitude and/or sign. To describe…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-08-13 Robin Delabays , Philippe Jacquod , Florian Dörfler

Synchronisation of coupled oscillators is a ubiquitous phenomenon, occurring in topics ranging from biology and physics, to social networks and technology. A fundamental and long-time goal in the study of synchronisation has been to find…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-07-25 Edward J. Hancock , Georg A. Gottwald

Aiming at the core problem that it is difficult for a fixed inertia coefficient to balance transient disturbance suppression and long-term stability in complex network synchronization systems, an adaptive inertia control strategy based on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Yiwei Zhou , Zhongcheng Lei , Xiaoran Dai , Wenshan Hu , Hong Zhou

In this work, a novel approach for the reliable and efficient numerical integration of the Kuramoto model on graphs is studied. For this purpose, the notion of order parameters is revisited for the classical Kuramoto model describing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Tobias Böhle , Christian Kuehn , Mechthild Thalhammer

We study the dynamics involved in a sparse random network model. We extend the standard mean-field approximation for the dynamics of a random network by employing the path-integral approach. The result indicates that the distribution of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Takashi Ichinomiya

In recent years, hardware implementations of Ising machines have emerged as a viable alternative to quantum computing for solving hard optimization problems among other applications. Unlike quantum hardware, dense connectivity can be…

Graph matching is a challenging problem with very important applications in a wide range of fields, from image and video analysis to biological and biomedical problems. We propose a robust graph matching algorithm inspired in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Marcelo Fiori , Pablo Sprechmann , Joshua Vogelstein , Pablo Musé , Guillermo Sapiro

Synchronization of an ensemble of oscillators is an emergent phenomenon present in several complex systems, ranging from social and physical to biological and technological systems. The most successful approach to describe how coherent…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-01-19 Francisco A. Rodrigues , Thomas K. DM. Peron , Peng Ji , Jürgen Kurths

In this letter, we propose an algorithm for learning a sparse weighted graph by estimating its adjacency matrix under the assumption that the observed signals vary smoothly over the nodes of the graph. The proposed algorithm is based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-11 Ghania Fatima , Aakash Arora , Prabhu Babu , Petre Stoica