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Opinion formation is an important element of social dynamics. It has been widely studied in the last years with tools from physics, mathematics and computer science. Here, a continuous model of opinion dynamics for multiple possible choices…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-01-28 Alina Sîrbu , Vittorio Loreto , Vito D. P. Servedio , Francesca Tria

Dynamical systems on hypergraphs can display a rich set of behaviours not observable for systems with pairwise interactions. Given a distributed dynamical system with a putative hypergraph structure, an interesting question is thus how much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Leonie Neuhäuser , Michael Scholkemper , Francesco Tudisco , Michael T. Schaub

Mechanistic and tractable mathematical models play a key role in understanding how social influence shapes public opinions. Recently, a weighted-median mechanism has been proposed as a new micro-foundation of opinion dynamics and validated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Wenjun Mei , Julien M. Hendrickx , Ge Chen , Francesco Bullo , Florian Dörfler

We consider a constrained hierarchical opinion dynamics in the case of leaders' competition and with complete information among leaders. Each leaders' group tries to drive the followers' opinion towards a desired state accordingly to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Giacomo Albi , Lorenzo Pareschi , Mattia Zanella

We investigate a dynamical model of opinion formation in which an individual's opinion is influenced by interactions with a group of other agents. We introduce a bias towards one of the opinions in a manner not considered earlier to the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-17 Pratik Mullick , Parongama Sen

This paper examines the interplay of opinion exchange dynamics and communication network formation. An opinion formation procedure is introduced which is based on an abstract representation of opinions as $k$--dimensional bit--strings.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-10-24 S. Banisch , T. Araújo , J. Louçã

In this manuscript, we introduce and study a variant of the agent-based opinion dynamics proposed in a recent work [8], within the framework of an interacting multi-agent system, where agents are assumed to interact with each other and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Fei Cao , Roberto Cortez

We describe the application of tools from statistical mechanics to analyse the dynamics of various classes of supervised learning rules in perceptrons. The character of this paper is mostly that of a cross between a biased non-encyclopedic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-02-03 C. W. H. Mace , A. C. C. Coolen

A continuous-opinion model accounting for the social compromise propensity is theoretically and numerically analysed. An agent's opinion is represented by a real number that can be changed through social interactions with her neighbours.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-09 Carlos Uriarte , Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Nagi Khalil

We consider a stochastic, continuous state and time opinion model where each agent's opinion locally interacts with other agents' opinions in the system, and there is also exogenous randomness. The interaction tends to create clusters of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Josselin Garnier , George Papanicolaou , Tzu-Wei Yang

By generalizing a class of models recently introduced to account for protracted transients in biological systems, we identify a novel mechanism for hyperuniformity. In this model, competition of particles over a shared resource guides the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-11 Tal Agranov , Natan Wiegenfeld , Omer Karin , Benjamin D. Simons

Recent studies have investigated various dynamic processes characterizing collective behaviors in real-world systems. However, these dynamics have been studied individually in specific contexts. In this article, we present a holistic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Ming Xie , Shibo He , Aming Li , Zike Zhang , Youxian Sun , Jiming Chen

Consensus formation is a central problem in collective behavior. In this work, we develop quantum models of opinion dynamics that can be exactly solved and implemented on current quantum hardware. By exploiting quantum superposition,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-10 Xingyu Guo , Xiaoyang Wang , Lingxiao Wang

In this work we study opinion formation in a population participating of a public debate with two distinct choices. We considered three distinct mechanisms of social interactions and individuals' behavior: conformity, nonconformity and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-11 Nuno Crokidakis , Paulo Murilo Castro de Oliveira

We here discuss a model of continuous opinion dynamics in which agents adjust continuous opinions as a result of random binary encounters whenever their difference in opinion is below a given threshold. We concentrate on the version of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Gerard Weisbuch , Guillaume Deffuant , Frederic Amblard

We introduce a taxonomy of interaction types and show that graphs are focal hypergraphs: every graph is canonically a focal hypergraph via its closed neighbourhood structure, and every graph dynamical model is a special case of the general…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-05 Elkaïoum M. Moutuou

Exploring the collective behavior of interacting entities is of great interest and importance. Rather than focusing on static and uniform connections, we examine the co-evolution of diverse mobile agents experiencing varying interactions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-16 Guram Mikaberidze , Sayantan Nag Chowdhury , Alan Hastings , Raissa M. DSouza

Coordinated human behaviour takes place within a diverse range of social organisational structures, which can be thought of as power structures with "managers" who influence "subordinates". A change in policy in one part of the organisation…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-01-27 Charlie Pilgrim , Weisi Guo , Samuel Johnson

Random intersection graphs containing an underlying community structure are a popular choice for modelling real-world networks. Given the group memberships, the classical random intersection graph is obtained by connecting individuals when…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Marta Milewska , Remco van der Hofstad , Bert Zwart

We consider time-continuous Markovian discrete-state dynamics on random networks of interacting agents and study the large population limit. The dynamics are projected onto low-dimensional collective variables given by the shares of each…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Marvin Lücke , Jobst Heitzig , Péter Koltai , Nora Molkenthin , Stefanie Winkelmann