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Single-Peaked Opinion Updates

Computer Science and Game Theory 2022-05-02 v1

Abstract

We consider opinion diffusion for undirected networks with sequential updates when the opinions of the agents are single-peaked preference rankings. Our starting point is the study of preserving single-peakedness. We identify voting rules that, when given a single-peaked profile, output at least one ranking that is single peaked w.r.t. a single-peaked axis of the input. For such voting rules we show convergence to a stable state of the diffusion process that uses the voting rule as the agents' update rule. Further, we establish an efficient algorithm that maximises the spread of extreme opinions.

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@article{arxiv.2204.14094,
  title  = {Single-Peaked Opinion Updates},
  author = {Robert Bredereck and Anne-Marie George and Jonas Israel and Leon Kellerhals},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.14094},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Accepted at IJCAI 2022

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