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We recently proposed a model coupling the evolution of the opinions of the individual with the local network topology. The opinion dynamics is based on the Bounded Confidence model. The social networks is based on a group concept where each…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-03-19 F. Gargiulo , S. Huet

The dynamical origin of opinion polarization in the real world is an interesting topic physical scientists may help to understand. To properly model the dynamics, the theory must be fully compatible with findings by social psychologists on…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-09-03 H. F. Chau , C. Y. Wong , F. K. Chow , C. -H. F. Fung

In this paper, we present an empirical study of the opinion dynamics of a large-scale sample of online social network users. We estimate opinions of users as continuous scalars based on their subscriptions to information sources and analyze…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ivan V. Kozitsin

Direct observations of earthquake nucleation and propagation are few and yet the next decade will likely see an unprecedented increase in indirect, surface observations that must be integrated into modeling efforts. Machine learning (ML)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Cody Rucker , Brittany A. Erickson

We introduce and discuss kinetic models of opinion formation on social networks in which the distribution function depends on both the opinion and the connectivity of the agents. The opinion formation model is subsequently coupled with a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-22 G. Toscani , A. Tosin , M. Zanella

We develop Structured-Knowledge-Informed Neural Networks (SKINNs), a unified estimation framework that embeds theoretical, simulated, previously learned, or cross-domain insights as differentiable constraints within flexible neural function…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-02 Yi Cao , Zexun Chen , Lin William Cong , Heqing Shi

Vector-borne diseases continue to pose a significant health threat globally with more than 3 billion people at risk each year. Despite some limitations, mechanistic dynamic models are a popular approach to representing biological processes…

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for quantitative modeling and analysis to understand real-world disease dynamics. In particular, post hoc analyses using compartmental models offer valuable insights into the effectiveness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Phillip Rothenbeck , Sai Karthikeya Vemuri , Niklas Penzel , Joachim Denzler

In a previous paper we proposed a model to study the dynamics of opinion formation in human societies by a co-evolution process involving two distinct time scales of fast transaction and slower network evolution dynamics. In the transaction…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-05-22 Gerardo Iñiguez , Rafael A. Barrio , János Kertész , Kimmo K. Kaski

Despite their ubiquity, the rich physics present in a plasma sheath has inhibited the development of a generally applicable description of this critical region. The present study utilizes a physics-informed neural network (PINN) to evaluate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Ethan Webb , Yuzhi Li , Christopher McDevitt

The boundaries between physical and social networks have narrowed with the advent of the Internet and its pervasive platforms. This has given rise to a complex adaptive information ecosystem where individuals and machines compete for…

The dynamics of opinion formation in large groups of people is a complex non-linear phenomenon whose investigation is just at the beginning. Both collective behaviour and personal view play an important role in this mechanism. In the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-02-17 M. Bartolozzi , B. Leinweber , A. W. Thomas

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a versatile and widely applicable concept across various science and engineering domains over the past decade. This article offers a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Sai Ganga , Ziya Uddin

This work presents a physics-driven machine learning framework for the simulation of acoustic scattering problems. The proposed framework relies on a physics-informed neural network (PINN) architecture that leverages prior knowledge based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Siddharth Nair , Timothy F. Walsh , Greg Pickrell , Fabio Semperlotti

Structural failures are often caused by catastrophic events such as earthquakes and winds. As a result, it is crucial to predict dynamic stress distributions during highly disruptive events in real time. Currently available high-fidelity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Hamed Bolandi , Gautam Sreekumar , Xuyang Li , Nizar Lajnef , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Opinion dynamics models describe the evolution of behavioral changes within social networks and are essential for informing strategies aimed at fostering positive collective changes, such as climate action initiatives. When applied to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-07 Alessia Antelmi , Carmine Spagnuolo , Luca Maria Aiello

One challenge of physics is to explain how collective properties arise from microscopic interactions. Indeed, interactions form the building blocks of almost all physical theories and are described by polynomial terms in the action. The…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-03 Claudia Merger , Alexandre René , Kirsten Fischer , Peter Bouss , Sandra Nestler , David Dahmen , Carsten Honerkamp , Moritz Helias

In many domains of life, business and management, numerous problems are addressed by small groups of individuals engaged in face-to-face discussions. While research in social psychology has a long history of studying the determinants of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-07 Mehdi Moussaid , Alejandro Noriega Campero , Abdullah Almaatouq

We introduce a new approach for solving forward systems of differential equations using a combination of splitting methods and physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). The proposed method, splitting PINN, effectively addresses the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Simin Shekarpaz , Fanhai Zeng , George Karniadakis

This paper presents a physics-informed neural network (PINN) approach for monitoring the health of diesel engines. The aim is to evaluate the engine dynamics, identify unknown parameters in a "mean value" model, and anticipate maintenance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Kamaljyoti Nath , Xuhui Meng , Daniel J Smith , George Em Karniadakis
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