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most citedContrarians synchronize beyond the limit of pairwise interactions

74 citations

33 papers

math.CO2025

On tropical knapsack-type problems

I. M. Buchinskiy, M. V. Kotov, A. V. Treier

In this paper, we investigate the computational complexity of the knapsack problem and subset sum problem for the following tropical algebraic structures. We consider the semigroup…

math.MG2024

On lower bounds of the density of planar periodic sets without unit distances

Alexander Tolmachev

Determining the maximal density of planar sets without unit distances is a fundamental problem in combinatorial geometry. This paper investigates lower bounds f…

math.MG2023★ 4 cited

A note on Borsuk's problem in Minkowski spaces

Andrei M. Raigorodskii, Arsenii Sagdeev

In 1993, Kahn and Kalai famously constructed a sequence of finite sets in -dimensional Euclidean spaces that cannot be partitioned into less than …

math.OC2022★ 16 cited

Randomized gradient-free methods in convex optimization

Alexander Gasnikov, Darina Dvinskikh, Pavel Dvurechensky +3

This review presents modern gradient-free methods to solve convex optimization problems. By gradient-free methods, we mean those that use only (noisy) realizations of the objective…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 29 cited

Why are there six degrees of separation in a social network?

Ivan Samoylenko, David Aleja, Eva Primo +11

A wealth of evidence shows that real world networks are endowed with the small-world property i.e., that the maximal distance between any two of their nodes scales logarithmically…

math.MG2022★ 6 cited

Coverings of planar and three-dimensional sets with subsets of smaller diameter

Alexander Tolmachev, Dmitry Protasov, Vsevolod Voronov

Quantitative estimates related to the classical Borsuk problem of splitting set in Euclidean space into subsets of smaller diameter are considered. For a given there is a minim…

math.OC2022

SARAH-based Variance-reduced Algorithm for Stochastic Finite-sum Cocoercive Variational Inequalities

Aleksandr Beznosikov, Alexander Gasnikov

Variational inequalities are a broad formalism that encompasses a vast number of applications. Motivated by applications in machine learning and beyond, stochastic methods are of g…

math.OC2022★ 8 cited

Decentralized convex optimization over time-varying graphs: a survey

Alexander Rogozin, Alexander Gasnikov, Aleksander Beznosikov +1

Decentralized optimization over time-varying networks has a wide range of applications in distributed learning, signal processing and various distributed control problems. The agen…

math.OC2022★ 5 cited

Decentralized Strongly-Convex Optimization with Affine Constraints: Primal and Dual Approaches

Alexander Rogozin, Demyan Yarmoshik, Ksenia Kopylova +1

Decentralized optimization is a common paradigm used in distributed signal processing and sensing as well as privacy-preserving and large-scale machine learning. It is assumed that…

math.OC2022★ 6 cited

Compression and Data Similarity: Combination of Two Techniques for Communication-Efficient Solving of Distributed Variational Inequalities

Aleksandr Beznosikov, Alexander Gasnikov

Variational inequalities are an important tool, which includes minimization, saddles, games, fixed-point problems. Modern large-scale and computationally expensive practical applic…

math.OC2022★ 5 cited

A Unified Analysis of Variational Inequality Methods: Variance Reduction, Sampling, Quantization and Coordinate Descent

Aleksandr Beznosikov, Alexander Gasnikov, Karina Zainulina +2

In this paper, we present a unified analysis of methods for such a wide class of problems as variational inequalities, which includes minimization problems and saddle point problem…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 60 cited

Vector Centrality in Hypergraphs

Kirill Kovalenko, Miguel Romance, Ekaterina Vasilyeva +9

Identifying the most influential nodes in networked systems is of vital importance to optimize their function and control. Several scalar metrics have been proposed to that effect,…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 6 cited

Predicting transitions in cooperation levels from network connectivity

A. Zhuk, I. Sendiña-Nadal, I. Leyva +4

Networks determine our social circles and the way we cooperate with others. We know that topological features like hubs and degree assortativity affect cooperation, and we know tha…

math.OC2021★ 3 cited

Near-Optimal Decentralized Algorithms for Saddle Point Problems over Time-Varying Networks

Aleksandr Beznosikov, Alexander Rogozin, Dmitry Kovalev +1

Decentralized optimization methods have been in the focus of optimization community due to their scalability, increasing popularity of parallel algorithms and many applications. In…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 74 cited

Contrarians synchronize beyond the limit of pairwise interactions

K. Kovalenko, X. Dai, K. Alfaro-Bittner +3

We give evidence that a population of pure contrarians globally coupled D-dimensional Kuramoto oscillators reaches a collective synchronous state when the interplay between the uni…

math.CO2021★ 6 cited

Constructing 5-chromatic unit distance graphs embedded in the Euclidean plane and two-dimensional spheres

Vsevolod Voronov, Anna Neopryatnaya, Eugene Dergachev

This paper is devoted to the development of algorithms for finding unit distance graphs with chromatic number greater than 4, embedded in a two-dimensional sphere or plane. Such gr…

math.OC2021★ 4 cited

One-Point Gradient-Free Methods for Smooth and Non-Smooth Saddle-Point Problems

Aleksandr Beznosikov, Vasilii Novitskii, Alexander Gasnikov

In this paper, we analyze gradient-free methods with one-point feedback for stochastic saddle point problems . For non-smooth and smooth cases, we present…

math.OC2020★ 26 cited

Recent theoretical advances in decentralized distributed convex optimization

Eduard Gorbunov, Alexander Rogozin, Aleksandr Beznosikov +2

In the last few years, the theory of decentralized distributed convex optimization has made significant progress. The lower bounds on communications rounds and oracle calls have ap…

nlin.AO2020★ 53 cited

D-dimensional oscillators in simplicial structures: odd and even dimensions display different synchronization scenarios

X. Dai, K. Kovalenko, M. Molodyk +8

From biology to social science, the functioning of a wide range of systems is the result of elementary interactions which involve more than two constituents, so that their descript…

math.OC2020★ 13 cited

Zeroth-Order Algorithms for Smooth Saddle-Point Problems

Abdurakhmon Sadiev, Aleksandr Beznosikov, Pavel Dvurechensky +1

Saddle-point problems have recently gained increased attention from the machine learning community, mainly due to applications in training Generative Adversarial Networks using sto…

math.OC2020★ 1 cited

Linearly Convergent Gradient-Free Methods for Minimization of Parabolic Approximation

Aleksandra Bazarova, Aleksandr Beznosikov, Alexander Gasnikov

Finding the global minimum of non-convex functions is one of the main and most difficult problems in modern optimization. In the first part of the paper, we consider a certain clas…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 73 cited

Growing scale-free simplices

K. Kovalenko, I. Sendiña-Nadal, N. Khalil +6

The past two decades have seen significant successes in our understanding of complex networked systems, from the mapping of real-world social, biological and technological networks…

math.OC2020★ 15 cited

Gradient-Free Methods for Saddle-Point Problem

Aleksandr Beznosikov, Abdurakhmon Sadiev, Alexander Gasnikov

In the paper, we generalize the approach Gasnikov et. al, 2017, which allows to solve (stochastic) convex optimization problems with an inexact gradient-free oracle, to the convex-…

math.GT2020★ 9 cited

On faces of quasi-arithmetic Coxeter polytopes

Nikolay Bogachev, Alexander Kolpakov

We prove that each lower-dimensional face of a quasi-arithmetic Coxeter polytope, which happens to be itself a Coxeter polytope, is also quasi-arithmetic. We also provide a suffici…