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In this paper we are concerned with bias voter models on trees and lattices, where the vertex in state 0 reconsiders its opinion at a larger rate than that of the vertex in state 1. For the process on tree with product measure as initial…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-02 Xiaofeng Xue

A semi-parametric, non-linear regression model in the presence of latent variables is applied towards learning network graph structure. These latent variables can correspond to unmodeled phenomena or unmeasured agents in a complex system of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-03 Jonathan Mei , José M. F. Moura

The voter model consists of a set of agents whose opinion is a binary variable. At each time step, an agent along with a social neighbor is selected and the agent imitates the social neighbor at the next time step. In this paper, we study a…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Hsin-Lun Li

The Shapley-Shubik power index is a measure of each voters power in the passage or failure of a vote. We extend this measure to graphs and consider a discrete-time process in which voters may change their vote based on the outcome of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Jordan Barrett , Christopher Duffy , Richard Nowakowski

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

The voter model is a toy model of consensus formation based on nearest-neighbor interactions. A voter sits at each vertex in a hypercubic lattice (of dimension $d$) and is in one of two possible opinion states. The opinion state of each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-08 Pascal Grange

We consider voter dynamics on a directed adaptive network with fixed out-degree distribution. A transition between an active phase and a fragmented phase is observed. This transition is similar to the undirected case if the networks are…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-04-17 Gerd Zschaler , Gesa A. Böhme , Michael Seißinger , Cristián Huepe , Thilo Gross

In elections, the vote shares or turnout rates show a strong spatial correlation. The logarithmic decay with distance suggests that a 2D noisy diffusive equation describes the system. Based on the study of U.S. presidential elections data,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-29 Shintaro Mori , Masato Hisakado , Kazuaki Nakayama

In the voter model, vertices of a graph (interpreted as voters) adopt one out of two opinions (0 and 1), and update their opinions at random times by copying the opinion of a neighbor chosen uniformly at random. This process is dual to a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Jhon Astoquillca

We introduce time variation in the flip-rates of the Voter Model. This type of generalisation is relevant to models of ageing in language change, allowing the representation of changes in speakers' learning rates over their lifetime and may…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 G. J. Baxter

We consider the two-opinion voter model on a regular random graph with n vertices and degree $d \geq 3$. It is known that consensus is reached on time scale n and that on this time scale the volume of the set of vertices with one opinion…

We study a variant of the voter model on a coevolving network in which interactions of two individuals with differing opinions only lead to an agreement on one of these opinions with a fixed probability $q$. Otherwise, with probability…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Raphael Eichhorn , Felix Hermann , Marco Seiler

In the $q$-voter model, the voter at $x$ changes its opinion at rate $f_x^q$, where $f_x$ is the fraction of neighbors with the opposite opinion. Mean-field calculations suggest that there should be coexistence between opinions if $q<1$ and…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Pooja Agarwal , Mackenzie Simper , Rick Durrett

We study the contrarian voter model for opinion formation in a society under the influence of an external oscillating propaganda and stochastic noise. Each agent of the population can hold one of two possible opinions on a given issue…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-25 M. Cecilia Gimenez , Luis Reinaudi , Federico Vazquez

The voter model is a simple agent-based model to mimic opinion dynamics in social networks: a randomly chosen agent adopts the opinion of a randomly chosen neighbour. This process is repeated until a consensus emerges. Although the basic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-06 Michael T. Gastner , Beáta Oborny , Máté Gulyás

The influence of contrarians on the noisy voter model is studied at the mean-field level. The noisy voter model is a variant of the voter model where agents can adopt two opinions, optimistic or pessimistic, and can change them by means of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-10 Nagi Khalil , Raul Toral

Social media influence online activity by recommending to users content strongly correlated with what they have preferred in the past. In this way they constrain users within filter bubbles that strongly limit their exposure to new or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-08 Giulio Iannelli , Giordano De Marzo , Claudio Castellano

We study an adaptive network model driven by a nonlinear voter dynamics. Each node in the network represents a voter and can be in one of two states that correspond to different opinions shared by the voters. A voter disagreeing with its…

In this paper, we discuss a voting model by considering three different kinds of networks: a random graph, the Barab\'{a}si-Albert(BA) model, and a fitness model. A voting model represents the way in which public perceptions are conveyed to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-23 Masato Hisakado , Shintaro Mori

Latent factor models are widely used in the social and behavioral science as scaling tools to map discrete multivariate outcomes into low dimensional, continuous scales. In political science, dynamic versions of classical factor models have…

Applications · Statistics 2026-01-28 Rayleigh Lei , Abel Rodriguez