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Collaborative learning techniques have the potential to enable training machine learning models that are superior to models trained on a single entity's data. However, in many cases, potential participants in such collaborative schemes are…

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Social exclusion has been regarded as one of the most effective measures to promote the evolution of cooperation. In real society, the way in which social exclusion works can be direct or indirect. However, thus far there is no related work…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-30 Linjie Liu , Xiaojie Chen

Mutual relationships, such as cooperation and exploitation, are the basis of human and other biological societies. The foundations of these relationships are rooted in the decision making of individuals, and whether they choose to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Yuma Fujimoto , Kunihiko Kaneko

In human societies the probability of strategy adoption from a given person may be affected by the personal features. Now we investigate how an artificially imposed restricted ability to reproduce, overruling ones fitness, affects an…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2008-04-10 A. Szolnoki , M. Perc , G. Szabo

Members of various species engage in altruism--i.e. accepting personal costs to benefit others. Here we present an incentivized experiment to test for altruistic behavior among AI agents consisting of large language models developed by the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Tim Johnson , Nick Obradovich

Governments and enterprises strongly rely on incentives to generate favorable outcomes from social and strategic interactions between individuals. The incentives are usually modeled by payoffs in evolutionary games, such as the prisoner's…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-14 Kaj-Kolja Kleineberg , Dirk Helbing

Scientific research increasingly depends on multi-author collaboration, yet the systems used to allocate authorship credit remain vulnerable to conflict, strategic behavior, and project breakdown. Although prior work has shown that authors…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Amit Bengal , Teddy Lazebnik

We consider a version of the ultimatum game which simultaneously combines reactive and Darwinian aspects with offers in [0,1]. By reactive aspects, we consider the effects that lead the player to change their offer given the previous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-02 Roberto da Silva , Pablo Valverde , Luis C. Lamb

Cooperation is fundamental in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), often requiring agents to balance individual gains with collective rewards. In this regard, this paper aims to investigate strategies to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Vaigarai Sathi , Sabahat Shaik , Jaswanth Nidamanuri

The evolutionary Prisoner's Dilemma Game (PDG) and the Snowdrift Game (SG) with preferential learning mechanism are studied in the Barab\'asi-Albert network. Simulation results demonstrate that the preferential learning of individuals…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-29 Jie Ren , Wen-Xu Wang , Gang Yan , Bing-Hong Wang

The prisoner's dilemma (PD) is a game-theoretic model studied in a wide array of fields to understand the emergence of cooperation between rational self-interested agents. In this work, we formulate a spatial iterated PD as a discrete-event…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Isaiah Farahbakhsh , Chrystopher L. Nehaniv

Cooperation is a difficult proposition in the face of Darwinian selection. Those that defect have an evolutionary advantage over cooperators who should therefore die out. However, spatial structure enables cooperators to survive through the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-02 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

Inspired by the fact that people have diverse propensities to punish wrongdoers, we study a spatial public goods game with defectors and different types of punishing cooperators. During the game, cooperators punish defectors with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-08-14 Xiaojie Chen , Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

The cooperation mechanism of indirect reciprocity has been studied by making multiple variations of its parts. This research proposes a new variant of Nowak and Sigmund model, focused on agents' attitude; it is called Individualistic…

The interplay of social and strategic motivations in human interactions is a largely unexplored question in collective social phenomena. Whether individuals' decisions are taken in a pure strategic basis or due to social pressure without a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-09-19 Daniele Vilone , Jose J. Ramasco , Angel Sánchez , Maxi San Miguel

Prisoner's dilemma game is the most commonly used model of spatial evolutionary game which is considered as a paradigm to portray competition among selfish individuals. In recent years, Win-Stay-Lose-Learn, a strategy updating rule base on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-27 Zhenyu Shi , Wei Wei , Xiangnan Feng , Xing Li , Zhiming Zheng

Research has shown that the addition of abstention as an option transforms social dilemmas to rock-paper-scissor type games, where defectors dominate cooperators, cooperators dominate abstainers (loners), and abstainers (loners), in turn,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Marcos Cardinot , Josephine Griffith , Colm O'Riordan , Matjaz Perc

Evolutionary game theory has been widely used to study the evolution of cooperation in social dilemmas where imitation-led strategy updates are typically assumed. However, results of recent behavioral experiments are not compatible with the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-19 Ik Soo Lim , Peter Wittek

Enforcing cooperation among substantial agents is one of the main objectives for multi-agent systems. However, due to the existence of inherent social dilemmas in many scenarios, the free-rider problem may arise during agents' long-run…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Kai Li , Dong Hao

Obtaining knowledge and skill achievement through peer learning can lead to higher academic achievement. However, peer learning implementation is not just about putting students together and hoping for the best. At its worst-designed, peer…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Seyede Fatemeh Noorani , Mohammad Hossein Manshaei , Mohammad Ali Montazeri , Behnaz Omoomi