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We introduce the Projected Push-Pull algorithm that enables multiple agents to solve a distributed constrained optimization problem with private cost functions and global constraints, in a collaborative manner. Our algorithm employs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Orhan Eren Akgün , Arif Kerem Dayı , Stephanie Gil , Angelia Nedić

We consider the fundamental problems of determining the rooted and global edge and vertex connectivities (and computing the corresponding cuts) in directed graphs. For rooted (and hence also global) edge connectivity with small integer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Chandra Chekuri , Kent Quanrud

This paper addresses the problem of synchronizing orthogonal matrices over directed graphs. For synchronized transformations (or matrices), composite transformations over loops equal the identity. We formulate the synchronization problem as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-10 Johan Thunberg , Florian Bernard , Jorge Goncalves

Suppose we are given a system of coupled oscillators on an unknown graph along with the trajectory of the system during some period. Can we predict whether the system will eventually synchronize? Even with a known underlying graph…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Hardeep Bassi , Richard Yim , Rohith Kodukula , Joshua Vendrow , Cherlin Zhu , Hanbaek Lyu

The field of dynamic graph algorithms aims at achieving a thorough understanding of real-world networks whose topology evolves with time. Traditionally, the focus has been on the classic sequential, centralized setting where the main…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Shiri Antaki , Quanquan C. Liu , Shay Solomon

Self-stabilizing protocols enable distributed systems to recover correct behavior starting from any arbitrary configuration. In particular, when processors communicate by message passing, fake messages may be placed in communication links…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Lélia Blin , Anaïs Durand , Sébastien Tixeuil

In this paper, we develop deterministic fully dynamic algorithms for computing approximate distances in a graph with worst-case update time guarantees. In particular, we obtain improved dynamic algorithms that, given an unweighted and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Jan van den Brand , Sebastian Forster , Yasamin Nazari

We define the ``Pulse Synchronization'' problem that requires nodes to achieve tight synchronization of regular pulse events, in the settings of distributed computing systems. Pulse-coupled synchronization is a phenomenon displayed by a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-03-04 Ariel Daliot , Danny Dolev , Hanna Parnas

Cluster synchronization in synthetic networks of coupled chaotic oscillators is investigated. It is found that despite the asymmetric nature of the network structure, a subset of the oscillators can be synchronized as a cluster while the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-05-16 Huawei Fan , Yafeng Wang , Yao Du , Haibo Qiu , Xingang Wang

Designing distributed optimal controllers subject to communication constraints is a difficult problem unless structural assumptions are imposed on the underlying dynamics and information exchange structure, e.g., sparsity, delay, or spatial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Fengjun Yang , Fernando Gama , Somayeh Sojoudi , Nikolai Matni

In this article we consider the graph alignment problem from the perspective of high-dimensional statistics: we aim to estimate an unknown permutation $\pi^*$ from the observation of two correlated random adjacency matrices $A_1$, $A_2$. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Laurent Massoulié

Apart from the role the clustering coefficient plays in the definition of the small-world phenomena, it also has great relevance for practical problems involving networked dynamical systems. To study the impact of the clustering coefficient…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-07-19 Robert E. Kooij , Nikolaj Horsevad Sørensen , Roland Bouffanais

We present a formula for determining synchronizability in large, randomized and weighted simplicial complexes. This formula leverages eigenratios and costs to assess complete synchronizability under diverse network topologies and intensity…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-05-03 S. Nirmala Jenifer , Dibakar Ghosh , Paulsamy Muruganandam

Collective synchronization in complex systems arises from the interplay between topology and dynamics, yet how to design and control such patterns in higher-order networks remains unclear. Here we show that a Dirac spectral programming…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-23 Yupeng Guo , Ahmed A. A. Zaid , Xueming Liu , Ginestra Bianconi

Network remodeling, or adaptation, in the presence of periodically driven forcings has hereto remained largely unexplored, despite the fact that a broad class of biological transport networks, e.g. animal vasculature, depends on periodic…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-01 Purba Chatterjee , Eleni Katifori

Recent years have seen extensive research on directed graph sparsification. In this work, we initiate the study of fast fully dynamic spectral and cut sparsification algorithms for directed graphs. We introduce a new notion of spectral…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yibin Zhao

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) with random, but sufficiently strong and balanced coupling display a well known high-dimensional chaotic dynamics. Here, we investigate if externally applied inputs to these RNNs can stabilize globally…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-11 Jordan Culp , Wilten Nicola

Networks of coupled dynamical systems provide a powerful way to model systems with enormously complex dynamics, such as the human brain. Control of synchronization in such networked systems has far reaching applications in many domains,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-03-21 Julien Gout , Markus Quade , Kamran Shafi , Robert K. Niven , Markus Abel

Reset systems can overcome fundamental limitations of linear time-invariant control. The recently introduced notion of scaled (relative) graphs provides a promising framework for developing graphical analysis and design tools for reset…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Timo de Groot , Maurice Heemels , Tom Oomen , Sebastiaan van den Eijnden

Gradient Clock Synchronization (GCS) is the task of minimizing the \emph{local skew,} i.e., the clock offset between neighboring clocks, in a larger network. While asymptotically optimal bounds are known, from a practical perspective they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Christoph Lenzen