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Conversation has been a primary means for the exchange of information since ancient times. Understanding patterns of information flow in conversations is a critical step in assessing and improving communication quality. In this paper, we…

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We consider a family of periodic SEIRS epidemic models with a fairly general incidence rate and it is shown the basic reproduction number determines the global dynamics of the models and it is a threshold parameter for persistence.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Eric Ávila-Vales , Erika Rivero-Esquivel , Gerardo García-Almeida

Reinforcement learning methods are increasingly used to optimise dialogue policies from experience. Most current techniques are model-free: they directly estimate the utility of various actions, without explicit model of the interaction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Pierre Lison

Over the past two centuries, the frequency of word usage in major Western languages has exhibited small amplitude regular cycles, superimposed on larger background trends. We show that these cycles of word usage organize into semantically…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-01 Alejandro Pardo Pintos , Diego E Shalom , Guillermo Cecchi , Gabriel Mindlin , Marcos A Trevisan

We study the dynamics of a spin-flip model with a mean field interaction. The system is non reversible, spacially inhomogeneous, and it is designed to model social interactions. We obtain the limiting behavior of the empirical averages in…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Francesca Collet , Paolo Dai Pra , Elena Sartori

We examine a non-reciprocally coupled dynamical model of a mixture of two diffusing species. We demonstrate that nonreciprocity, which is encoded in the model via antagonistic cross diffusivities, provides a generic mechanism for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-21 Zhihong You , Aparna Baskaran , M. Cristina Marchetti

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 investigate the emergence of periodic behavior in opinion dynamics and its underlying geometry. For this, we use a bounded-confidence model with contrarian agents in a convolution social network. This means that agents adapt their…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bernard Chazelle , Kritkorn Karntikoon , Jakob Nogler

The problem of inferring pair-wise and higher-order interactions in complex systems involving large numbers of interacting variables, from observational data, is fundamental to many fields. Known to the statistical physics community as the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-01 Sjoerd Viktor Beentjes , Ava Khamseh

Human communication systems, such as language, evolve culturally; their components undergo reproduction and variation. However, a role for selection in cultural evolutionary dynamics is less clear. Often neutral evolution (also known as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Nicolas Fay , Monica Tamariz , T Mark Ellison , Dale Barr

In this paper we consider the modeling of opinion dynamics over time dependent large scale networks. A kinetic description of the agents' distribution over the evolving network is considered which combines an opinion update based on binary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Giacomo Albi , Lorenzo Pareschi , Mattia Zanella

We address ourselves to a class of systems composed of two coupled subsystems without any intra-subsystem interaction: itinerant Fermions and localized Bosons on a lattice. Switching on an interaction between the two subsystems leads to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Domanski , J. Ranninger

We investigate the dynamics of labial constriction trajectories during the production of /b/ and /m/ in English and Mandarin. We find that, across languages and contexts, the ratio of instantaneous displacement to instantaneous velocity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Michael C. Stern , Jason A. Shaw

Disordered systems theory provides powerful tools to analyze the generic behaviors of highdimensional systems, such as species-rich ecological communities or neural networks. By assuming randomness in their interactions, universality…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-20 Juan Giral Martínez

We consider two social consensus models, the AB-model and the Naming Game restricted to two conventions, which describe a population of interacting agents that can be in either of two equivalent states (A or B) or in a third mixed (AB)…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-01-08 Xavier Castelló , Andrea Baronchelli , Vittorio Loreto

Inferring control parameters in non-linear dynamical systems is an important task in analysing general dynamical behaviours, particularly in the presence of inherently deterministic chaos. Traditional approaches often rely on…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-19 L. Lober , M. S. Palmero , F. A. Rodrigues

We investigate the effects of geometric fluctuations, associated with aperiodic exchange interactions, on the critical behavior of $q$-state ferromagnetic Potts models on generalized diamond hierarchical lattices. For layered exchange…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. A. S. Haddad , S. T. R. Pinho , S. R. Salinas

A fundamental challenge in the cognitive sciences is discovering the dynamics that govern behaviour. Take the example of spoken language, which is characterised by a highly variable and complex set of physical movements that map onto the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Sam Kirkham

We introduce and study the spatial replicator equation with higher order interactions and both infinite (spatially homogeneous) populations and finite (spatially inhomogeneous) populations. We show that in the special case of three…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-12-29 Christopher Griffin , Li Feng , Rongling Wu

Large language models, LLMs, are increasingly deployed in multiturn settings where earlier responses shape later ones, making reliability dependent on whether a conversation remains consistent over time. When this consistency degrades…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Wael Hafez , Amir Nazeri