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Classical models of opinion dynamics assume human participants with bounded rationality and limited coordination. The rise of LLM-based agents introduces a qualitative shift: agents can now participate in online discussions at scale,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xin He , Junxi Shen , Yuchen Mou , David M. Bossens , Caishun Chen , Ivor W. Tsang , Yew Soon Ong

The leader-following consensus problem for multiple Euler-Lagrange systems was studied recently by the adaptive distributed observer approach under the assumptions that the leader system is neurally stable and the communication network is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Tao Liu , Jie Huang

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled the emergence of multi-agent systems where LLMs interact, collaborate, and make decisions in shared environments. While individual model behavior has been extensively studied,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Young-Min Cho , Sharath Chandra Guntuku , Lyle Ungar

This paper revisits a well studied leader-following consensus problem of linear multi-agent systems, while aiming at follower nodes' transient performance. Conventionally, when not all follower nodes have access to the leader's state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Jilie Zhang , Zhiyong Chen , Hongwei Zhang , Tao Feng

According to mass media theory, the dissemination of messages and the evolution of opinions in social networks follow a two-step process. First, opinion leaders receive the message from the message sources, and then they transmit their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Huisheng Wang , Yuejiang Li , Yiqing Lin , H. Vicky Zhao

In this note, the problem of simultaneous leader-following consensus and parameter estimation is studied for a class of multi-agent systems subject to an uncertain leader system. The leader system is described by a sum of sinusoids with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Shimin Wang , Xiangyu Meng

This letter studies synchronization conditions for distributed dynamic networks with different types of leaders. The role of a leader specifying a desired global state trajectory through local interactions (the power leader) has long been…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei Wang , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

We define an opinion formation model of agents in a 1d ring, where the opinion of an agent evolves due to its interactions with close neighbors and due to its either positive or negative attitude toward the overall mood of all the other…

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

We introduce and solve a model that mimics the herding effect in financial markets when groups of agents share information. The number of agents in the model is growing and at each time step either (i) with probability $p$ an incoming agent…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 G. J. Rodgers , Dafang Zheng

Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit sycophancy: agreement with user stance even when it conflicts with the model's opinion. While prior work has mostly studied this in single-agent settings, it remains underexplored in collaborative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Vira Kasprova , Amruta Parulekar , Abdulrahman AlRabah , Krishna Agaram , Ritwik Garg , Sagar Jha , Nimet Beyza Bozdag , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

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

We propose an agent-based opinion formation model characterised by a two-fold novelty. First, we realistically assume that each agent cannot measure the opinion of its neighbours with infinite resolution and accuracy, and hence it can only…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Carlos Andres Devia , Giulia Giordano

This paper studies opinion dynamics in multilayer (social) networks. Extending a single-layer model, we formulate opinion updates as a synchronous coordination game in which agents minimize a local cost to stay close to their neighbors'…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ruey-An Shiu , Parinaz Naghizadeh

This paper proposes and analyzes a novel multi-agent opinion dynamics model in which agents have access to actions which are quantized version of the opinions of their neighbors. The model produces different behaviors observed in social…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-02-08 N. R. Chowdhury , I. -C. Morarescu , S. Martin , S. Srikant

Follow-the-regularized-leader (FTRL) algorithms have become popular in the context of games, providing easy-to-implement methods for each agent, as well as theoretical guarantees that the strategies of all agents will converge to some…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Heling Zhang , Siqi Du , Roy Dong

We introduce a 2-state opinion dynamics model where agents evolve by majority rule. In each update, a group of agents is specified whose members then all adopt the local majority state. In the mean-field limit, where a group consists of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

Many empirical networks are intrinsically pluralistic, with interactions occurring within groups of arbitrary agents. Then the agent in the network can be influenced by types of neighbors, common examples include similarity, opposition, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-05-12 Shuo Liu , Xiwang Guan , Shuangling Luo , Haoxiang Xia

We consider a group of agents connected by a social network who participate in majority dynamics: each agent starts with an opinion in {-1,+1} and repeatedly updates it to match the opinion of the majority of its neighbors. We assume that…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-02 Omer Tamuz , Ran J. Tessler

Interaction with others influences our opinions and behaviours. Our activities within various social circles lead to different opinions expressed in various situations, groups, and ways of communication. Earlier studies on agent-based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Stanisław Stępień , Jarosław Jankowski , Piotr Bródka , Radosław Michalski

Social network simulation aims to model collective opinion dynamics in large populations, but existing LLM-based simulators mainly focus on aggregate dynamics while largely ignoring individual internal states. This limits their ability to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yunyao Zhang , Yihao Ai , Zuocheng Ying , Qirui Mi , Junqing Yu , Wei Yang , Zikai Song