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We propose a semiparametric model for dyadic link formations in directed networks. The model contains a set of degree parameters that measure different effects of popularity or outgoingness across nodes, a regression parameter vector that…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-21 Lianqiang Qu , Lu Chen , Ting Yan , Yuguo Chen

Collective decision making processes lie at the heart of many social, political and economic challenges. The classical voter model is a well-established conceptual model to study such processes. In this work, we define a new form of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-02-19 Leonhard Horstmeyer , Christian Kuehn

We investigate how network structure influences evolutionary games on networks. We extend the pair approximation to study the effects of degree fluctuation and clustering of the network. We find that a larger fluctuation of the degree is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-12 Satoru Morita

Recently, real-world recommendation systems need to deal with millions of candidates. It is extremely challenging to conduct sophisticated end-to-end algorithms on the entire corpus due to the tremendous computation costs. Therefore,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Ruobing Xie , Qi Liu , Shukai Liu , Ziwei Zhang , Peng Cui , Bo Zhang , Leyu Lin

The voter model is an archetypal stochastic process that represents opinion dynamics. In each update, one agent is chosen uniformly at random. The selected agent then copies the current opinion of a randomly selected neighbour. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-20 Michael T. Gastner , Kota Ishida

We propose a modeling framework to develop a continuum description of opinion dynamics on networks as an alternative to other models, like the ones based on graphons. In a nutshell, the continuum model that we propose aims at approximating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Gianluca Favre , Gaspard Jankowiak , Sara Merino-Aceituno , Lara Trussardi

Contact processes form a large and highly interesting class of dynamic processes on networks, including epidemic and information spreading. While devising stochastic models of such processes is relatively easy, analyzing them is very…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Charalampos Kyriakopoulos , Gerrit Grossmann , Verena Wolf , Luca Bortolussi

In the coevolution of network structures and opinion formation, we investigate the effects of a mixed population with distinctive relinking preferences on both the convergence time and the network structures. It has been found that a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-14 Li-Xin Zhong , Fei Ren , Tian Qiu , Jiang-Rong Xu , Bi-Hui Chen

Different voters behave differently, different governments make different decisions, or different organizations are ruled differently. Many research questions important to political scientists concern choice behavior, which involves dealing…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-06 Gerhard Tutz , Ingrid Mauerer

As an intrinsic and fundamental property of big data, data heterogeneity exists in a variety of real-world applications, such as precision medicine, autonomous driving, financial applications, etc. For machine learning algorithms, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jiashuo Liu , Jiayun Wu , Bo Li , Peng Cui

We investigate the consensus dynamics of the voter model on large random graphs with heterogeneous and directed features, focusing in particular on networks with power-law degree distributions. By extending recent results on sparse directed…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Luca Avena , Federico Capannoli , Diego Garlaschelli , Rajat Subhra Hazra

Graphs are a standard framework for describing dynamical processes shaped by pairwise interactions among agents. But many systems involve interactions in groups of three or more agents. Here, we develop a method of "$\ell$-hyperedge…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-25 Anzhi Sheng , Alex McAvoy , Ye Tian , Silun Zhang , Angela Fontan , Joshua B. Plotkin

In this paper, the synchronization in a hyper-network of coupled dynamical systems is investigated for the first time. An evolving hyper-network model is proposed for better describing some complex systems. A concept of joint degree is…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-03-13 Zhaoyan Wu , Jinqiao Duan , Xinchu Fu

We investigate a majority-vote model on two-layer multiplex networks with community structure. In our majority-vote model, the edges on each layer encode one type of social relationship and an individual changes their opinion based on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-06-29 Kaiyan Peng , Mason A. Porter

Inferring topological characteristics of complex networks from observed data is critical to understand the dynamical behavior of networked systems, ranging from the Internet and the World Wide Web to biological networks and social networks.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Chunheng Jiang , Jianxi Gao , Malik Magdon-Ismail

Networks are useful representations for complex systems. Especially, heterogeneous and asymmetrical relations commonly found in complex systems can be converted to weighted directed edges between nodes. The disparity filter (Serrano et al.,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-21 Hyunuk Kim

Collaboration networks provide a method for examining the highly heterogeneous structure of collaborative communities. However, we still have limited theoretical understanding of how individual heterogeneity relates to network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-27 Katharine A. Anderson

We introduce a homogeneous pair approximation to the Naming Game (NG) model by deriving a six-dimensional ODE for the two-word Naming Game. Our ODE reveals the change in dynamical behavior of the Naming Game as a function of the average…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-04-30 Weituo Zhang , Chjan Lim , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

The Linear Threshold Model is a widely used model that describes how information diffuses through a social network. According to this model, an individual adopts an idea or product after the proportion of their neighbors who have adopted it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Christopher Tran , Elena Zheleva

We establish a quantitative normal approximation result for sums of random variables with multilevel local dependencies. As a corollary, we obtain a quantitative normal approximation result for linear functionals of random fields which may…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Julian Fischer