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Artificial intelligence (AI) changes social learning when aggregated outputs become training data for future predictions. To study this, we extend the DeGroot model by introducing an AI aggregator that trains on population beliefs and feeds…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-04-07 Daron Acemoglu , Tianyi Lin , Asuman Ozdaglar , James Siderius

Human history has been marked by social instability and conflict, often driven by the irreconcilability of opposing sets of beliefs, ideologies, and religious dogmas. The dynamics of belief systems has been studied mainly from two distinct…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-08 Nathaniel Rodriguez , Johan Bollen , Yong-Yeol Ahn

Imitation is an important learning heuristic in animal and human societies. Previous explorations report that the fate of individuals with cooperative strategies is sensitive to the protocol of imitation, leading to a conundrum about how…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-22 Xiaochen Wang , Lei Zhou , Alex McAvoy , Aming Li

This paper considers the evolution of a network in a discrete time, stochastic setting in which agents learn about each other through repeated interactions and maintain/break links on the basis of what they learn from these interactions.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-27 Mihaela van der Schaar , Simpson Zhang

Time-varying community structures widely exist in various real-world networks. However, the spreading dynamics on this kind of network has not been fully studied. To this end, we systematically study the effects of time-varying community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-05-17 Mian-Xin Liu , Wei Wang , Ying Liu , Ming Tang , Shi-Min Cai , Hai-Feng Zhang

Social networks play an important role in analyzing the impact of individual-level interactions on societal or economic outcomes. We model interactive decision making for a community of individuals with different traits, represented by a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-09 Pengyu Liu , Jie Jian

The microscopic and macroscopic dynamics of random networks is investigated in the strong-dilution limit (i.e. for sparse networks). By simulating chaotic maps, Stuart-Landau oscillators, and leaky integrate-and-fire neurons, we show that a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-12-24 Stefano Luccioli , Simona Olmi , Antonio Politi , Alessandro Torcini

Many models of learning in teams assume that team members can share solutions or learn concurrently. However, these assumptions break down in multidisciplinary teams where team members often complete distinct, interrelated pieces of larger…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-16 John Meluso , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne

Social network structure is one of the key determinants of human language evolution. Previous work has shown that the network of social interactions shapes decentralized learning in human groups, leading to the emergence of different kinds…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Marina Dubova , Arseny Moskvichev , Robert Goldstone

Imitation is a basic updating mechanism for strategy evolution in structured populations, determining how individuals sample social information and translate it into behavioral changes. Higher-order networks, such as hypergraphs, generalize…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-11 Bingxin Lin , Lei Zhou , Hao Fang

Understanding the evolution of cooperation in structured populations represented by networks is a problem of long research interest, and a most fundamental and widespread property of social networks related to cooperation phenomena is that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-25 Aming Li , Yao Meng , Lei Zhou , Naoki Masuda , Long Wang

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

Social dynamics on a network may be accelerated or decelerated depending on which pairs of individuals in the network communicate early and which pairs do later. The order with which the links in a given network are sequentially used, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-18 Naoki Masuda

In the vibrant landscape of AI research, decentralised learning is gaining momentum. Decentralised learning allows individual nodes to keep data locally where they are generated and to share knowledge extracted from local data among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Luigi Palmieri , Chiara Boldrini , Lorenzo Valerio , Andrea Passarella , Marco Conti , János Kertész

Information sharing between individuals is crucial to improve performance in collective tasks. However, in a competitive world, individuals may be reluctant to share information with the others, and it is still unclear how the presence of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-04 Ye Wang , Andrea Civilini , Anzhi Sheng , Xiaojie Chen , Long Wang , Vito Latora

We consider the model of cooperative learning via distributed non-Bayesian learning, where a network of agents tries to jointly agree on a hypothesis that best described a sequence of locally available observations. Building upon recently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Eduardo Mojica-Nava , David Yanguas-Rojas , César A. Uribe

System structures play an essential role in the emergence of collective intelligence in many natural and engineering systems. In empirical systems, interactions among multiple agents may change over time, forming a temporal network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-24 Zhenglong Tian , Yao Meng , Wenxuan Fang , Aming Li

This paper investigates a model of opinion formation on an adaptive social network, consisting of a system of coupled ordinary differential equations for individuals' opinions and corresponding network edge weights. A key driver of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-04 Andrew Nugent , Carmen Calatayud Fernandez , Susana N. Gomes

Deep neural networks give us a powerful method to model the training dataset's relationship between input and output. We can regard that as a complex adaptive system consisting of many artificial neurons that work as an adaptive memory as a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-08 Kenichi Nakazato

Complex networks serve as abstract models for understanding real-world complex systems and provide frameworks for studying structured dynamical systems. This article addresses limitations in current studies on the exploration of individual…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Bin Pi , Liang-Jian Deng , Minyu Feng , Matjaž Perc , Jürgen Kurths