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Synchronization is the process of achieving identical dynamics among coupled identical units. If the units are different from each other, their dynamics cannot become identical; yet, after transients, there may emerge a functional…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-09 Aditya Tandon , Malte Schröder , Manu Mannattil , Marc Timme , Sagar Chakraborty

We study the problem of mean-field control when the state dynamics are given by general systems of forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) with heterogeneous mean-field interactions. Firstly, we introduce a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Andreas Sojmark , Zeng Zhang

In this paper we study a mean-field games system with Dirichlet boundary conditions in a closed domain and in a mean-field of control setting, that is in which the dynamics of each agent is affected not only by the average position of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Mattia Bongini , Francesco Salvarani

A unified approach for analyzing synchronization in coupled systems of autonomous differential equations is presented in this work. Through a careful analysis of the variational equation of the coupled system we establish a sufficient…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-19 Georgi S. Medvedev

Motivated by the abundance of directed synaptic couplings in a real biological neuronal network, we investigate the synchronization behavior of the Hodgkin-Huxley model in a directed network. We start from the standard model of the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Sung Min Park , Beom Jun Kim

As an example of the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation, the mean field Langevin dynamics recently attracts attention due to its connection to (noisy) gradient descent on infinitely wide neural networks in the mean field regime, and hence the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Mohamed Alfaki Aboubacrine Assadek

This paper studies mean field games for multi-agent systems with control-dependent multiplicative noises. For the general systems with nonuniform agents, we obtain a set of decentralized strategies by solving an auxiliary limiting optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Bing-Chang Wang , Yuan-Hua Ni , Huanshui Zhang

In a network of dynamical systems, concurrent synchronization is a regime where multiple groups of fully synchronized elements coexist. In the brain, concurrent synchronization may occur at several scales, with multiple ``rhythms''…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Quang-Cuong Pham , Jean-Jacques Slotine

If the behavior of a system with many degrees of freedom can be captured by a small number of collective variables, then plausibly there is an underlying mean-field theory. We show that simple versions of this idea fail to describe the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Luca Di Carlo , Francesca Mignacco , Christopher W. Lynn , William Bialek

Motivated by the recent applications of game-theoretical learning techniques to the design of distributed control systems, we study a class of control problems that can be formulated as potential games with continuous action sets, and we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Steven Perkins , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , David S. Leslie

We study the transition to synchronization in large, dense networks of chaotic circle maps, where an exact solution of the mean-field dynamics in the infinite network and all-to-all coupling limit is known. In dense networks of finite size…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-07-06 Hans Muller Mendonca , Ralf Tönjes , Tiago Pereira

This study addresses primal-dual dynamics for a stochastic programming problem for capacity network design. It is proven that consensus can be achieved on the \textit{here and now} variables which represent the capacity of the network. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Casper T. Röling , Dario Bauso , Hamidou Tembine

We investigate the relationship between the emergence of chaos synchronization and the information flow in dynamical systems possessing homogeneous or heterogeneous global interactions whose origin can be external (driven systems) or…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 G. Paredes , O. Alvarez-Llamoza , M. G. Cosenza

Mean field control provides a robust framework for coordinating large-scale populations with complex interactions and has wide applications across diverse fields. However, the inherent nonlinearity and the presence of unknown system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Yuhan Zhao , Juntao Chen , Yingdong Lu , Quanyan Zhu

The paper investigates the synchronization of a network of identical linear state-space models under a possibly time-varying and directed interconnection structure. The main result is the construction of a dynamic output feedback coupling…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-05-23 Luca Scardovi , Rodolphe Sepulchre

Mean-field games have been studied under the assumption of very large number of players. For such large systems, the basic idea consists to approximate large games by a stylized game model with a continuum of players. The approach has been…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Hamidou Tembine

Motivated from a wide range of applications, various methods to control synchronization in coupled oscillators have been proposed. Previous studies have demonstrated that global feedback typically induces three macroscopic behaviors:…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-07-07 Ayumi Ozawa , Hiroshi Kori

The revival of oscillation and maintaining rhythmicity in a network of coupled oscillators offer an open challenge to researchers as the cessation of oscillation often leads to a fatal system degradation and an irrecoverable malfunctioning…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-09 Debarati Ghosh , Tanmoy Banerjee , Jürgen Kurths

We investigate the emergence of synchronization in a network of coupled chaotic macroeconomic systems. Each node represents an economy characterized by three key variables savings, gross domestic product (GDP), and foreign capital inflows.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-26 Thierry Njougouo , Fernando Fagundes Ferreira , Diego Garlaschelli

In the context of simple finite-state discrete time systems, we introduce a generalization of mean field game solution, called correlated solution, which can be seen as the mean field game analogue of a correlated equilibrium. Our notion of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Luciano Campi , Markus Fischer