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Diffusion Models (DMs), also referred to as score-based diffusion models, utilize neural networks to specify score functions. Unlike most other probabilistic models, DMs directly model the score functions, which makes them more flexible to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Weijian Luo

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…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Robert Bredereck , Anne-Marie George , Jonas Israel , Leon Kellerhals

Complex systems often have features that can be modeled by advanced mathematical tools [1]. Of special interests are the features of complex systems that have a network structure as such systems are important for modeling technological and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-06-13 Nikolay K. Vitanov , Kaloyan N. Vitanov , Zlatinka I. Dimitrova

Known by many names and arising in many settings, the forced linear diffusion model is central to the modeling of power and influence within social networks (while also serving as the mechanistic justification for the widely used…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Carter T. Butts

We consider the voter model with binary opinions on a random regular graph with $n$ vertices of degree $d \geq 3$, subject to a rewiring dynamics in which pairs of edges are rewired, i.e., broken into four half-edges and subsequently…

We develop a diffusion approximation for systems subject to fast random resetting by small amplitudes. Equivalently, this describes systems with frequent but small catastrophes. We demonstrate the validity of the approximation by computing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-26 Tobias Galla

Progress in theoretical physics is often made by the investigation of toy models, the model organisms of physics, which provide benchmarks for new methodologies. For complex systems, one such model is the adaptive voter model. Despite its…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-10-24 Holly Silk , Güven Demirel , Martin Homer , Thilo Gross

Single-particle traces of the diffusive motion of molecules, cells, or animals are by-now routinely measured, similar to stochastic records of stock prices or weather data. Deciphering the stochastic mechanism behind the recorded dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-14 Henrik Seckler , Janusz Szwabinski , Ralf Metzler

We study the effects of campaigning, where the society is partitioned into voter clusters and a diffusion process propagates opinions in a network connecting the clusters. Our model is very powerful and can incorporate many campaigning…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Piotr Faliszewski , Rica Gonen , Martin Koutecký , Nimrod Talmon

The voter model with multiple states has found applications in areas as diverse as population genetics, opinion formation, species competition and language dynamics, among others. In a single step of the dynamics, an individual chosen at…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-09 Federico Vazquez , Ernesto S. Loscar , Gabriel Baglietto

We present a multiscale approach to model diffusion in a crowded environment and its effect on the reaction rates. Diffusion in biological systems is often modeled by a discrete space jump process in order to capture the inherent noise of…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2016-03-18 Lina Meinecke

Real-world datasets are inherently heterogeneous, yet how per-class structural differences and sampling imbalance shape the training dynamics of diffusion models-and potentially exacerbate disparities-remains poorly understood. While models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Flavio Nicoletti , Chenxiao Ma , Enrico Ventura , Luca Saglietti , Stefano Sarao Mannelli

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

In this paper, we consider lightweight decentralised algorithms for achieving consensus in distributed systems. Each member of a distributed group has a private value from a fixed set consisting of, say, two elements, and the goal is for…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-20 James Cruise , Ayalvadi Ganesh

The voter model rules are simple, with agents copying the state of a random neighbor, but they lead to non-trivial dynamics. Besides opinion processes, the model has also applications for catalysis and species competition. Inspired by the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-09-13 Oriol Artime , Juan Fernandez-Gracia , Jose J. Ramasco , Maxi San Miguel

There has been considerable recent study in "sub-diffusion" models that replace the standard parabolic equation model by a one with a fractional derivative in the time variable. There are many ways to look at this newer approach and one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-08 William Rundell , Zhidong Zhang

The long-time dynamics of reaction-diffusion processes in low dimensions is dominated by fluctuation effects. The one-dimensional coagulation-diffusion process describes the kinetics of particles which freely hop between the sites of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-15 Xavier Durang , Jean-Yves Fortin , Diego Del Biondo , Malte Henkel , Jean Richert

Many physical systems are described by probability distributions that evolve in both time and space. Modeling these systems is often challenging to due large state space and analytically intractable or computationally expensive dynamics. To…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Oliver K. Ernst , Tom Bartol , Terrence Sejnowski , Eric Mjolsness

We present a mathematical description of the voter model dynamics on heterogeneous networks. When the average degree of the graph is $\mu \leq 2$ the system reaches complete order exponentially fast. For $\mu >2$, a finite system falls,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-08 F. Vazquez , V. M. Eguiluz

This paper explores the computational complexity of diffusion-based language modeling. We prove a dichotomy based on the quality of the score-matching network in a diffusion model. In one direction, a network that exactly computes the score…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yuxi Liu