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The paper addresses the synchronization of multi-agent systems with continuous-time dynamics interacting through a very general class of monotonic continuous signal functions that covers estimation biases, approximation of discrete…

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Networks incorporating higher-order interactions are increasingly recognized for their ability to introduce novel dynamics into various processes, including synchronization. Previous studies on synchronization within multilayer networks…

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This paper investigates the distributed continuous-time nonconvex optimization problem over unbalanced directed networks. The objective is to cooperatively drive all the agent states to an optimal solution that minimizes the sum of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Jin Zhang , Yahui Hao , Lu Liu , Haibo Ji

Decentralized federated learning (DFL), inherited from distributed optimization, is an emerging paradigm to leverage the explosively growing data from wireless devices in a fully distributed manner.DFL enables joint training of machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Wang

Cooperative diversity systems are wireless communication systems designed to exploit cooperation among users to mitigate the effects of multipath fading. In fairly general conditions, it has been shown that these systems can achieve the…

Applications · Statistics 2009-11-13 Peter A. Parker , Patrick Mitran , Daniel W. Bliss , Vahid Tarokh

The emergence of synchronization in a network of coupled oscillators is a pervasive topic in various scientific disciplines ranging from biology, physics, and chemistry to social networks and engineering applications. A coupled oscillator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-07 Florian Dörfler , Francesco Bullo

Non-reciprocal interactions play a crucial role in many social and biological complex systems. While directionality has been thoroughly accounted for in networks with pairwise interactions, its effects in systems with higher-order…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-10-22 Luca Gallo , Riccardo Muolo , Lucia Valentina Gambuzza , Vito Latora , Mattia Frasca , Timoteo Carletti

We study the synchronizability and the synchronization dynamics of networks of nonlinear oscillators. We investigate how the synchronization of the network is influenced by some of its topological features such as variations of the power…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-12-08 Mario di Bernardo , Franco Garofalo , Francesco Sorrentino

Multi-level optimization has gained increasing attention in recent years, as it provides a powerful framework for solving complex optimization problems that arise in many fields, such as meta-learning, multi-player games, reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Shuoguang Yang , Xuezhou Zhang , Mengdi Wang

In these notes we study synchronizability of dynamical processes defined on complex networks as well as its interplay with network topology. Building from a recent work by Barahona and Pecora [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 054101 (2002)], we use a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Luca Donetti , Pablo I. Hurtado , Miguel A. Munoz

We propose new mathematical optimization models for generating sparse dynamical graphs, or networks, that can achieve synchronization. The synchronization phenomenon is studied using the Kuramoto model, defined in terms of the adjacency…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Regina S. Burachik , Alexander C. Kalloniatis , C. Yalçın Kaya

The optimal power flow (OPF) problem is funda- mental in power distribution networks control and operation that underlies many important applications such as volt/var control and demand response, etc.. Large-scale highly volatile renewable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Qiuyu Peng , Steven Low

We investigate a distributed optimization problem over a cooperative multi-agent time-varying network, where each agent has its own decision variables that should be set so as to minimize its individual objective subject to local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Chuanye Gu , Zhiyou Wu , Jueyou Li

In this paper, we focus on the decentralized composite optimization for convex functions. Because of advantages such as robust to the network and no communication bottle-neck in the central server, the decentralized optimization has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Haishan Ye , Xiangyu Chang

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

The angular synchronization problem aims to accurately estimate (up to a constant additive phase) a set of unknown angles $\theta_1, \dots, \theta_n\in[0, 2\pi)$ from $m$ noisy measurements of their offsets $\theta_i-\theta_j \;\mbox{mod}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Yixuan He , Gesine Reinert , David Wipf , Mihai Cucuringu

This paper investigates solving convex composite optimization on an undirected network, where each node, privately endowed with a smooth component function and a nonsmooth one, is required to minimize the sum of all the component functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Xuyang Wu , Jie Lu

Many complex systems have natural representations as multi-layer networks. While these formulations retain more information than standard single-layer network models, there is not yet a fully developed theory for computing network metrics…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Daryl R. DeFord , Scott D. Pauls

We study synchronization dynamics in networks of coupled oscillators with bimodal distribution of natural frequencies. This setup can be interpreted as a simple model of frequency synchronization dynamics among generators and loads working…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-07-03 Sergi Lozano , Lubos Buzna , Albert Díaz-Guilera

Networks of neural mass nodes with delayed interactions are increasingly being used as models for large-scale brain activity. To complement the growing number of computational studies of such networks, it is timely to develop new…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-29 S Coombes , H G E Meijer