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We investigate a variation of the classical voter model in which the set of influencing agents depends on an individual's current opinion. The initial population consists of a random sample of equally sized sub-populations for each state,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-30 Francisco J. Muñoz , Juan Carlos Nuño

The problem of analyzing the performance of networked agents exchanging evidence in a dynamic network has recently grown in importance. This problem has relevance in signal and data fusion network applications and in studying opinion and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Ranga Dabarera , Kamal Premaratne , Manohar N. Murthi , Dilip Sarkar

Peer learning is a novel high-level reinforcement learning framework for agents learning in groups. While standard reinforcement learning trains an individual agent in trial-and-error fashion, all on its own, peer learning addresses a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Cedric Derstroff , Mattia Cerrato , Jannis Brugger , Jan Peters , Stefan Kramer

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 investigate mean-field dynamics of a nonlinear opinion formation model with congregator and contrarian agents. Each agent assumes one of the two possible states. Congregators imitate the state of other agents with a rate that increases…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-12-25 Shoma Tanabe , Naoki Masuda

In this paper, we consider the problem of containment control of multi-agent systems with multiple stationary leaders, interacting over a directed network. While, containment control refers to just ensuring that the follower agents reach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Sushobhan Chatterjee , Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani

In this paper, we study opinion dynamics in a balanced social structure consisting of two groups. Agents learn the true state of the world naively learning from their neighbors and from an unbiased source of information. Agents want to…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-05-03 Sebastiano Della Lena , Luca Paolo Merlino

We study an opinion dynamics model that explores the competition between persuasion and compromise in a population of agents with nearest-neighbor interactions on a two-dimensional square lattice. Each agent can hold either a positive or a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-12-03 Fátima Velásquez-Rojas , Federico Vazquez

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

As Large Language Models (LLMs) get integrated into diverse workflows, they are increasingly being regarded as "collaborators" with humans, and required to work in coordination with other AI systems. If such AI collaborators are to reliably…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Abhijnan Nath , Carine Graff , Nikhil Krishnaswamy

The constrained voter model describes the dynamics of opinions in a population of individuals located on a connected graph. Each agent is characterized by her opinion, where the set of opinions is represented by a finite sequence of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Nicolas Lanchier , Stylianos Scarlatos

Consider a multiplex network formed by two layers indicating social interactions: the first layer is a friendship network and the second layer is a network of business relations. In this duplex network each pair of individuals can be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-12-22 Cook Hyun Kim , Minjae Jo , J. S. Lee , G. Bianconi , B. Kahng

The q-voter model, a variant of the classic voter model, has been analyzed by several authors: while allowing to study opinion dynamics, this model is also believed to be one of the most representative among the many defined in the wide…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-26 Marco Alberto Javarone , Tiziano Squartini

We present a model that explores the influence of persuasion in a population of agents with positive and negative opinion orientations. The opinion of each agent is represented by an integer number $k$ that expresses its level of agreement…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-05-30 C. E. La Rocca , L. A. Braunstein , F. Vazquez

The issue of opinion sharing and formation has received considerable attention in the academic literature, and a few models have been proposed to study this problem. However, existing models are limited to the interactions among nearest…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Zuobai Zhang , Wanyue Xu , Zhongzhi Zhang , Guanrong Chen

When a team of agents, such as unmanned aerial/underwater vehicles, are operating in $3$-dimensional space, their coordinated action in pursuit of a cooperative task generally requires all agents to either share a common coordinate system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-07 Quoc Van Tran , Hyo-Sung Ahn , Jinwhan Kim

Reinforcement learning is typically concerned with learning control policies tailored to a particular agent. We investigate whether there exists a single global policy that can generalize to control a wide variety of agent morphologies --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Wenlong Huang , Igor Mordatch , Deepak Pathak

We investigate how peer pressure influences the opinions of Large Language Model (LLM) agents across a spectrum of cognitive commitments by embedding them in social networks where they update opinions based on peer perspectives. Our…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Aliakbar Mehdizadeh , Martin Hilbert

We study a model for social influence in which the agents' opinion is a continuous variable [G. Weisbuch et al., Complexity \textbf{7}, 2, 55 (2002)]. The convergent opinion adjustment process takes place as a result of random binary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. F. Laguna , Guillermo Abramson , Damian H. Zanette

We consider a system in which a group of agents represented by the vertices of a graph synchronously update their opinion based on that of their neighbours. If each agent adopts a positive opinion if and only if that opinion is sufficiently…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-12 John Haslegrave , Chris Cannings