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Social interactions often occur between three or more agents simultaneously. Examining opinion dynamics on hypergraphs allows one to study the effect of such polyadic interactions on the opinions of agents. In this paper, we consider a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Weiqi Chu , Mason A. Porter

We study the evolution of opinions (or beliefs) over a social network modeled as a signed graph. The sign attached to an edge in this graph characterizes whether the corresponding individuals or end nodes are friends (positive links) or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-17 Guodong Shi , Alexandre Proutiere , Mikael Johansson , John S. Baras , Karl H. Johansson

We propose a collective opinion formation model with a so-called confirmation bias. The confirmation bias is a psychological effect with which, in the context of opinion formation, an individual in favor of an opinion is prone to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-06-24 Ryosuke Nishi , Naoki Masuda

The consensus model of Deffuant et al is simplified by allowing for many discrete instead of infinitely many continuous opinions, on a directed Barabasi-Albert network. A simple scaling law is observed. We then introduce noise and also use…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Stauffer , A. O. Sousa , C. Schulze

We present an extensive study of the joint effects of heterogeneous social agents and their heterogeneous social links in a bounded confidence opinion dynamics model. The full phase diagram of the model is explored for two different…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-24 Rémi Perrier , Hendrik Schawe , Laura Hernández

Motivated by the literature on opinion dynamics and evolutionary game theory, we propose a novel mathematical framework to model the intertwined coevolution of opinions and decision-making in a complex social system. In the proposed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Lorenzo Zino , Mengbin Ye , Ming Cao

The adaptive voter model is widely used to model opinion dynamics in social complex networks. However, existing adaptive voter models are limited to only pairwise interactions and fail to capture the intricate social dynamics that arises in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-02-04 Anastasia Golovin , Jan Mölter , Christian Kuehn

We propose a simple model to explore an educational phenomenon where the correct answer emerges from group discussion. We construct our model based on several plausible assumptions: (i) We tend to follow peers' opinions. However, if a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-27 Jibeom Seo , Beom Jun Kim

Bounded confidence opinion dynamics model the propagation of information in social networks. However in the existing literature, opinions are only viewed as abstract quantities without semantics rather than as part of a decision-making…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Kush R. Varshney

We study opinion dynamics in a population of interacting adaptive agents voting on a set of complex multidimensional issues. We consider agents which can classify issues into for or against. The agents arrive at the opinions about each…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-11 Renato Vicente , Andre C. R. Martins , Nestor Caticha

Opinion dynamics aims to understand how individuals' opinions evolve through local interactions. Recently, opinion dynamics have been modeled as network games, where individuals update their opinions in order to minimize the social pressure…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Yuchen Xu , Yi Han , Chuanzhe Zhang , Miao Wang , Wenjun Mei

We introduce a statistical physics model for opinion dynamics on random networks where agents adopt the opinion held by the majority of their direct neighbors only if the fraction of these neighbors exceeds a certain threshold, p_u. We find…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter Klimek , Renaud Lambiotte , Stefan Thurner

We introduce multi-population opinion dynamics models linked to the bounded confidence model, aiming to explore how interactions between individuals contribute to the emergence of consensus, polarization, or fragmentation. Existing models…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Tigran Bakaryan , Yuliang Gu , Naira Hovakimyan , Tarek Abdelzaher , Christian Lebiere

Can classical consensus models predict the group behavior of large language models (LLMs)? We examine multi-round interactions among LLM agents through the DeGroot framework, where agents exchange text-based messages over diverse…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Iris Yazici , Mert Kayaalp , Stefan Taga , Ali H. Sayed

Recently, we proposed polycontextural networks as a model of evolving systems of interacting beliefs. Here, we present an analysis of the phase transition as well as the scaling properties. The model contains interacting agents that strive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-17 Johannes Falk , Edwin Eichler , Katja Windt , Marc-Thorsten Hütt

In the compromise model of continuous opinions proposed by Deffuant et al, the states of two agents in a network can start to converge if they are neighbors and if their opinions are sufficiently close to each other, below a given threshold…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-19 Yérali Gandica , Marcelo del Castillo-Mussot , Gerardo J. Vázquez , Sergio Rojas

This study considers a variant of the bounded confidence opinion formation model wherein the probability of opinion assimilation is dependent on the relative similarity of opinions. Agents are located on a social network and decide whether…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-14 Hirofumi Takesue

A way to simulate the basic interactions between two individuals with different opinions, in the context of strategic game theory, is proposed. Various games are considered, which produce different kinds of opinion formation dynamics.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Alessandro Di Mare , Vito Latora

Models of the consensus of the individual state in social systems have been the subject of recent researches in the physics literature. We investigate how network structures coevolve with the individual state under the framework of social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Kaiqi Zhang , Zinan Lv , Haifeng Du , Honghu Zou

Opinion spreading in a society decides the fate of elections, the success of products, and the impact of political or social movements. The model by Hegselmann and Krause is a well-known theoretical model to study such opinion formation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Petra Berenbrink , Martin Hoefer , Dominik Kaaser , Pascal Lenzner , Malin Rau , Daniel Schmand