English

The iPod Model

Probability 2014-02-19 v1

Abstract

We introduce a Voter Model variant, inspired by social evolution of musical preferences. In our model, agents have preferences over a set of songs and upon meeting update their own preferences incrementally towards those of the other agents they meet. Using the spectral gap of an associated Markov chain, we give a geometry dependent result on the asymptotic consensus time of the model.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1402.4216,
  title  = {The iPod Model},
  author = {Daniel Lanoue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.4216},
  year   = {2014}
}
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