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Language is one of the most important aspects of human cognition; it represents the way we think, act and communicate with each other. Each language has its own history, background, and form. A language represents a lot of important…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-09-18 Dorina Strori , Ahmet Bombaci , Haluk Bingol

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

Modularity structures are common in various social and biological networks. However, its dynamical origin remains an open question. In this work, we set up a dynamical model describing the evolution of a social network. Based on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-08-19 Menghui Li , Shuguang Guan , Choy-Heng Lai

Language is a powerful communicative and cognitive tool. It enables humans to express thoughts, share intentions, and reason about complex phenomena. Despite our fluency in using and understanding language, the question of how it arises and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Maytus Piriyajitakonkij , Rujikorn Charakorn , Weicheng Tao , Wei Pan , Mingfei Sun , Cheston Tan , Mengmi Zhang

Why do human languages change at some times, and not others? We address this longstanding question from a computational perspective, focusing on the case of sound change. Sound change arises from the pronunciation variability ubiquitous in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-17 James Kirby , Morgan Sonderegger

Natural, social, and artificial multi-agent systems usually operate in dynamic environments, where the ability to respond to changing circumstances is a crucial feature. An effective collective response requires suitable information…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2022-09-29 David Mateo , Nikolaj Horsevad , Vahid Hassani , Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Roland Bouffanais

Languages are continuously undergoing changes, and the mechanisms that underlie these changes are still a matter of debate. In this work, we approach language evolution through the lens of causality in order to model not only how various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Daphna Keidar , Andreas Opedal , Zhijing Jin , Mrinmaya Sachan

In some systems, the behavior of the constituent units can create a `context' that modifies the direct interactions among them. This mechanism of indirect modification inspired us to develop a minimal model of context-dependent spreading.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-13 Giulio Burgio , Sergio Gómez , Alex Arenas

With the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), the prevalence of iterative interactions among these models is anticipated to increase. Notably, recent advancements in multi-round self-improving methods allow LLMs to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yi Ren , Shangmin Guo , Linlu Qiu , Bailin Wang , Danica J. Sutherland

Complex systems are characterized by many interacting units that give rise to emergent behavior. A particularly advantageous way to study these systems is through the analysis of the networks that encode the interactions among the system's…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-21 Alberto Aleta , Yamir Moreno

Many models have been proposed to analyze the evolution of opinion structure due to the interaction of individuals in their social environment. Such models analyze the spreading of ideas both in completely interacting backgrounds and on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-13 F. Gargiulo , S. Huet

This paper studies the effect of linguistic constraints on the large scale organization of language. It describes the properties of linguistic networks built using texts of written language with the words randomized. These properties are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-02-16 Madhav Krishna , Ahmed Hassan , Yang Liu , Dragomir Radev

Recently, individual-based models originally used for biological purposes revealed interesting insights into processes of the competition of languages. Within this new field of population dynamics a model considering sexual populations with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-26 Veit Schwämmle

Influencing various aspects of human activity, migration is associated also with language formation. To examine the mutual interaction of these processes, we study a Naming Game with migrating agents. The dynamics of the model leads to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-05-17 Dorota Lipowska , Adam Lipowski

Contact between languages has the potential to transmit vocabulary and other language features; however, this does not always happen. Here, an iterated learning model is used to examine, in a simple way, the resistance of languages to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Seth Bullock , Conor Houghton

Increasing evidence demonstrates that in many places language coexistence has become ubiquitous and essential for supporting language and cultural diversity and associated with its financial and economic benefits. The competitive evolution…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Zejie Zhou , Boleslaw K. Szymanski , Jianxi Gao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly increased in size and apparent capabilities in the last three years, but their training data is largely English text. There is growing interest in multilingual LLMs, and various efforts are striving…

Alignment is a social phenomenon wherein individuals share a common goal or perspective. Mirroring, or mimicking the behaviors and opinions of another individual, is one mechanism by which individuals can become aligned. Large scale…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Harvey McGuinness , Tianyu Wang , Carey E. Priebe , Hayden Helm

Social fragmentation caused by widening differences among constituents has recently become a highly relevant issue to our modern society. Theoretical models of social fragmentation using the adaptive network framework have been proposed and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Hiroki Sayama , Junichi Yamanoi

Barring swarm robotics, a substantial share of current machine-human and machine-machine learning and interaction mechanisms are being developed and fed by results of agent-based computer simulations, game-theoretic models, or robotic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-08-24 Michał B. Paradowski , Łukasz Jonak