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Modern power systems face significant challenges in state estimation and real-time monitoring, particularly regarding response speed and accuracy under faulty conditions or cyber-attacks. This paper proposes a hybrid approach using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Solon Falas , Markos Asprou , Charalambos Konstantinou , Maria K. Michael

Online social networks provide a medium for citizens to form opinions on different societal issues, and a forum for public discussion. They also expose users to viral content, such as breaking news articles. In this paper, we study the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Sijing Tu , Stefan Neumann

The adaptive social learning paradigm helps model how networked agents are able to form opinions on a state of nature and track its drifts in a changing environment. In this framework, the agents repeatedly update their beliefs based on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Valentina Shumovskaia , Mert Kayaalp , Mert Cemri , Ali H. Sayed

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are an influential method of solving differential equations and estimating their parameters given data. However, since they make use of neural networks, they provide only a point estimate of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Lena Podina , Mahdi Torabi Rad , Mohammad Kohandel

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) constitute a flexible deep learning approach for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), which model phenomena ranging from heat conduction to quantum mechanical systems. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Aleksander Krasowski , René P. Klausen , Aycan Celik , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Wojciech Samek , Jonas Naujoks

In modern interconnected societies, opinions and beliefs can quickly spread across large populations, giving rise to collective behaviors such as the adoption of social norms or polarization. These phenomena have motivated many models aimed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-27 Cosimo Agostinelli , Marco Mancastroppa , Alain Barrat

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are at the forefront of scientific machine learning, making possible the creation of machine intelligence that is cognizant of physical laws and able to accurately simulate them. However, today's…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Jian Cheng Wong , Chin Chun Ooi , Abhishek Gupta , Pao-Hsiung Chiu , Joshua Shao Zheng Low , My Ha Dao , Yew-Soon Ong

The understanding of how users in a network update their opinions based on their neighbours opinions has attracted a great deal of interest in the field of network science, and a growing body of literature recognises the significance of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Zahra Ghorbani , Seyed Hossein Khasteh , Saeid Ghafouri

Social network based information campaigns can be used for promoting beneficial health behaviours and mitigating polarisation (e.g. regarding climate change or vaccines). Network-based intervention strategies typically rely on full…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-29 Matthew Garrod , Nick S. Jones

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are a promising approach that combines the power of neural networks with the interpretability of physical modeling. PINNs have shown good practical performance in solving partial differential…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Nathan Doumèche , Gérard Biau , Claire Boyer

In this paper, we study how to shape opinions in social networks when the matrix of interactions is unknown. We consider classical opinion dynamics with some stubborn agents and the possibility of continuously influencing the opinions of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Vivek Borkar , Alexandre Reiffers-Masson

Opinion Dynamics is an interdisciplinary area of research. Psychology and Sociology have proposed models of how individuals form opinions and how social interactions influence this process. Socio-Physicists have interpreted patterns in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Sudhakar Krisharao , Shaja Arul Selvamani

Polarization and fragmentation in social media amplify user biases, making it increasingly important to understand the evolution of opinions. Opinion dynamics provide interpretability for studying opinion evolution, yet incorporating these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Hao Li , Hao Jiang , Yuke Zheng , Hao Sun , Wenying Gong

This study presents a novel physics-informed neural network (PINN) framework for modeling poroelasticity in heterogeneous media with material interfaces. The approach introduces a composite neural network (CoNN) where separate neural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Sumanta Roy , Chandrasekhar Annavarapu , Pratanu Roy , Dakshina Murthy Valiveti

Agents in social networks with threshold-based dynamics change opinions when influenced by sufficiently many peers. Existing literature typically assumes that the network structure and dynamics are fully known, which is often unrealistic.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Dmitry Chistikov , Luisa Estrada , Mike Paterson , Paolo Turrini

In the process of enacting or introducing a new policy, policymakers frequently consider the population's responses. These considerations are critical for effective governance. There are numerous methods to gauge the ground sentiment from a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Eugene T. Y. Ang , Yong Sheng Soh

Most of the distributed protocols for multi-agent consensus assume that the agents are mutually cooperative and "trustful," and so the couplings among the agents bring the values of their states closer. Opinion dynamics in social groups,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Anton V. Proskurnikov , Alexey Matveev , Ming Cao

We study the connections between network structure, opinion dynamics, and an adversary's power to artificially induce disagreements. We approach these questions by extending models of opinion formation in the social sciences to represent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Jason Gaitonde , Jon Kleinberg , Eva Tardos

We harness the physics-informed neural network (PINN) approach to extend the utility of phenomenological models for particle migration in shear flow. Specifically, we propose to constrain the neural network training via a model for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-28 Daihui Lu , Ivan C. Christov

A physics-informed neural network (PINN) models the dynamics of a system by integrating the governing physical laws into the architecture of a neural network. By enforcing physical laws as constraints, PINN overcomes challenges with data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Pengtao Dang , Tingbo Guo , Melissa Fishel , Guang Lin , Wenzhuo Wu , Sha Cao , Chi Zhang