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Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon occurring in social, biological, and technological systems when the internal rhythms of their constituents are adapted to be in unison as a result of their coupling. This natural tendency towards…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-11 Ignacio Hermoso de Mendoza , Leonardo A. Pachón , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , David Zueco

A fundamental understanding of synchronized behavior in multi-agent systems can be acquired by studying analytically tractable Kuramoto models. However, such models typically diverge from many real systems whose dynamics evolve under…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-07-28 Keith A. Wiley , Peter J. Mucha , Danielle S. Bassett

Based on recent advances in fibration symmetry theory, we investigate how structural symmetries influence synchronization in systems with higher-order interactions (HOI). Using bipartite graph representations, we identify a node partition…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Margherita Bertè , Tommaso Gili

The study of higher order interactions in the dynamics of Kuramoto oscillators has been a topic of intense recent research. Arguments based on dimensional reduction using the Ott-Antonsen ansatz show that such interactions usually…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-01-08 Ricardo Fariello , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

We present a novel interdisciplinary framework that bridges synchronization theory and multi-agent AI systems by adapting the Kuramoto model to describe the collective dynamics of heterogeneous AI agents engaged in complex task execution.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Chiranjit Mitra

Understanding how large complex networks achieve synchronization is a problem of fundamental interest, and is typically studied in the asymptotic steady-state regime. In contrast, this study investigates how higher-order interactions affect…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-04-10 Dhrubajyoti Biswas , Pintu Patra , Arpan Banerjee

An incorporation of higher-order interactions is known to lead an abrupt first-order transition to synchronization in otherwise smooth second-order one for pair-wise coupled systems. Here, we show that adaptation in higher-order coupling…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-02-24 Priyanka Rajwani , Ayushi Suman , Sarika Jalan

Complex networks have become the main paradigm for modelling the dynamics of interacting systems. However, networks are intrinsically limited to describing pairwise interactions, whereas real-world systems are often characterized by…

Synchronization is an important phenomenon in a wide variety of systems comprising interacting oscillatory units, whether natural (like neurons, biochemical reactions, cardiac cells) or artificial (like metronomes, power grids, Josephson…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-01-13 Guilherme S. Costa , Marcel Novaes , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

The Kuramoto model is a classical mathematical model in the field of non-linear dynamical systems that describes the evolution of coupled oscillators in a network that may reach a synchronous state. The relationship between the network's…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Pedro Abdalla , Afonso S. Bandeira , Clara Invernizzi

The classical Kuramoto model consists of finitely many pairwise coupled oscillators on the circle. In many applications a simple pairwise coupling is not sufficient to describe real-world phenomena as higher-order (or group) interactions…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Christian Bick , Tobias Böhle , Christian Kuehn

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

Synchronization is an omnipresent collective phenomenon in nature and technology, whose understanding is in particular for real-world systems still elusive. We study the synchronization transition in a phase oscillator system with two…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-08-02 Rico Berner , Annie Lu , Igor M. Sokolov

In the field of collective dynamics, the Kuramoto model serves as a benchmark for the investigation of synchronization phenomena. While mean-field approaches and complex networks have been widely studied, the simple topology of a circle is…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-02-21 Albert Díaz-Guilera , Dimitri Marinelli , Conrad J. Pérez-Vicente

We study the dynamics of the Kuramoto model on the sphere under higher-order interactions and an external periodic force. For identical oscillators, we introduce a novel way to incorporate three- and four-body interactions into the dynamics…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-05-26 Guilherme S. Costa , Marcel Novaes , Ricardo Fariello , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

The Kuramoto model with high-order coupling has recently attracted some attention in the field of coupled oscillators in order, for instance, to describe clustering phenomena in sets of coupled agents. Instead of considering interactions…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-11-27 Robin Delabays

Neural synchrony is hypothesized to play a crucial role in how the brain organizes visual scenes into structured representations, enabling the robust encoding of multiple objects within a scene. However, current deep learning models often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Sabine Muzellec , Andrea Alamia , Thomas Serre , Rufin VanRullen

We have examined the synchronization and de-synchronization transitions observable in the Kuramoto model with a standard pair-wise first harmonic interaction plus a higher order (triadic) symmetric interaction for unimodal and bimodal…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-09-28 Alejandro Carballosa , Alberto P. Muñuzuri , Stefano Boccaletti , Alessandro Torcini , Simona Olmi

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

The Kuramoto model and its generalizations have been broadly employed to characterize and mechanistically understand various collective dynamical phenomena, especially the emergence of synchrony among coupled oscillators. Despite almost…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-05-16 Seungjae Lee , Lucas Braun , Frieder Bönisch , Malte Schröder , Moritz Thümler , Marc Timme