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Multi-agent systems on nonlinear spaces sometimes fail to synchronize. This is usually attributed to the initial configuration of the agents being too spread out, the graph topology having certain undesired symmetries, or both. Besides…

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In this work, we address the solution of both linear and nonlinear ill-posed inverse problems by developing a novel graph-based regularization framework, where the regularization term is formulated through an iteratively updated graph…

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In this paper we study the steady state of the fluctuations of the surface for a model of surface growth with relaxation to any of its lower nearest neighbors (SRAM) [F. Family, J. Phys. A {\bf 19}, L441 (1986)] in scale free networks. It…

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Composite optimization problems involve minimizing the composition of a smooth map with a convex function. Such objectives arise in numerous data science and signal processing applications, including phase retrieval, blind deconvolution,…

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We study a class of non-convex and non-smooth problems with \textit{rank} regularization to promote sparsity in optimal solution. We propose to apply the proximal gradient descent method to solve the problem and accelerate the process with…

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Smooth axially symmetric Helfrich topological spheres are either round or else they must satisfy a second order equation known as the reduced membrane equation [17]. In this paper, we show that, conversely, axially symmetric closed genus…

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A common approach for analyzing hypergraphs is to consider the projected adjacency or Laplacian matrices for each order of interactions (e.g., dyadic, triadic, etc.). However, this method can lose information about the hypergraph structure…

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We investigate the stochastic optimization problem of minimizing population risk, where the loss defining the risk is assumed to be weakly convex. Compositions of Lipschitz convex functions with smooth maps are the primary examples of such…

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Synchronization on multiplex networks have attracted increasing attention in the past few years. We investigate collective behaviors of Kuramoto oscillators on single layer and duplex spacial networks with total cost restriction, which was…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 Ruiwu Niu , Xiaoqun Wu , Jun-an Lu , Jianwen Feng

We investigate the emergence of synchronization in the second-order Kuramoto model with adaptive simplicial interactions on a globally connected network. This inertial Kuramoto framework describes systems, where oscillator frequencies…

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We establish a unified synchronization framework for the all-to-all hybrid Kuramoto model that couples first- and second-order oscillators within a single dynamical system. Although the Kuramoto model has become one of the most widely used…

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Higher-order networks with multiway interactions can exhibit collective dynamical phenomena that are absent in traditional pairwise network models. However, analyzing such dynamics becomes computationally prohibitive as their state space…

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In his classical work, Kuramoto analytically described the onset of synchronization in all-to-all coupled networks of phase oscillators with random intrinsic frequencies. Specifically, he identified a critical value of the coupling…

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We study the asymmetric low-rank factorization problem: \[\min_{\mathbf{U} \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times d}, \mathbf{V} \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times d}} \frac{1}{2}\|\mathbf{U}\mathbf{V}^\top -\mathbf{\Sigma}\|_F^2\] where $\mathbf{\Sigma}$ is a…

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In this paper, we study linearly constrained policy optimization over the manifold of Schur stabilizing controllers, equipped with a Riemannian metric that emerges naturally in the context of optimal control problems. We provide extrinsic…

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We consider the problem of learning the structure of undirected graphical models with bounded treewidth, within the maximum likelihood framework. This is an NP-hard problem and most approaches consider local search techniques. In this…

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