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The q-voter model is a spin-flip system in which the rate of flipping to type i is given by the qth power of the proportion of nearest neighbours in type i for $i=0,1$. If $q=1$ it reduces to the classical voter model. We show that in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Ted Cox , Ed Perkins

We study noise sensitivity of the consensus opinion of the voter model on finite graphs, with respect to noise affecting the initial opinions and noise affecting the dynamics. We prove that the final opinion is stable with respect to small…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Gideon Amir , Omer Angel , Rangel Baldasso , Ron Peretz

We consider the performance of Glauber dynamics for the random cluster model with real parameter $q>1$ and temperature $\beta>0$. Recent work by Helmuth, Jenssen and Perkins detailed the ordered/disordered transition of the model on random…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Andreas Galanis , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Paulina Smolarova

We investigate the three-state majority-vote model with noise on scale-free and regular networks. In this model, an individual selects an opinion equal to the opinion of the majority of its neighbors with probability $1 - q$ and opposite to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-14 André L. M. Vilela , Bernardo J. Zubillaga , Chao Wang , Minggang Wang , Ruijin Du , H. Eugene Stanley

In the evolving voter model, when an individual interacts with a neighbor having an opinion different from theirs, they will with probability $1-\alpha$ imitate the neighbor but with probability $ \alpha$ will sever the connection and…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Anirban Basak , Rick Durrett , Yuan Zhang

We investigate the coarsening kinetics in a long-range variant of the Persistent Voter Model in space dimension $d=1$ and 2. In this model agents can hold two confidence levels, normal and zealot. If normal, agents take the opinion of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-17 Jeferson J. Arenzon , F. Corberi , W. G. Dantas , L. Smaldone

In this paper we study nonlinear $q$-voter model with stochastic driving on a complete graph. We investigate two types of stochasticity that, using the language of social sciences, can be interpreted as different kinds of nonconformity.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 Piotr Nyczka , Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron , Jerzy Cislo

We introduce an heterogeneous nonlinear $q$-voter model with zealots and two types of susceptible voters, and study its non-equilibrium properties when the population is finite and well mixed. In this two-opinion model, each individual…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-10 Andrew Mellor , Mauro Mobilia , R. K. P. Zia

Collective leadership and herding may arise in standard models of opinion dynamics as an interplay of a strong separation of time scales within the population and its hierarchical organization. Using the voter model as a simple opinion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-07-12 Liudmila Rozanova , Marian Boguna

Introduced in 1963, Glauber dynamics is one of the most practiced and extensively studied methods for sampling the Ising model on lattices. It is well known that at high temperatures, the time it takes this chain to mix in $L^1$ on a system…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Eyal Lubetzky , Allan Sly

The noisy voter model is a stylised representation of opinion dynamics. Individuals copy opinions from other individuals, and are subject to spontaneous state changes. In the case of two opinion states this model is known to have a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-10 Nagi Khalil , Tobias Galla

In this paper we propose a method to estimate the initial state of a linear dynamical system with noisy observation. The method allows the user to have estimations in real time, that is, to have a new estimation for each new observation.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Rocío Díaz Martín , Ivan Medri , Juliana Osorio

Aging is considered as the property of the elements of a system to be less prone to change states as they get older. We incorporate aging into the noisy voter model, a stochastic model in which the agents modify their binary state by means…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-06 Oriol Artime , Antonio F. Peralta , Raúl Toral , José J. Ramasco , Maxi San Miguel

The voter model is a classical interacting particle system explaining consensus formation on a social network. Real social networks feature not only a heterogeneous degree distribution but also connections changing over time. We study the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-10 John Fernley

We analyze the universality classes of phase transitions in a variety of nonlinear voter models. By mapping several models with symmetric absorbing states onto a canonical model introduced in previous studies, we confirm that they exhibit a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-06 Jaume Llabrés , Maxi San Miguel , Raúl Toral

Nearly all identifiability results in unsupervised representation learning inspired by, e.g., independent component analysis, factor analysis, and causal representation learning, rely on assumptions of additive independent noise or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yujia Zheng , Yang Liu , Jiaxiong Yao , Yingyao Hu , Kun Zhang

Consider random $d$-regular graphs, i.e., random graphs such that there are exactly $d$ edges from each vertex for some $d\ge 3$. We study both the configuration model version of this graph, which has occasional multi-edges and self-loops,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Van Hao Can , Remco van der Hofstad , Takashi Kumagai

This paper addresses the challenge of a particular class of noisy state observations in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), a common issue in various real-world applications. We focus on modeling this uncertainty through a confusion matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Amirhossein Afsharrad , Sanjay Lall

Models of imitation and herding behavior often underestimate the role of individualistic actions and assume symmetric boundary conditions. However, real-world systems (e.g., electoral processes) frequently involve asymmetric boundaries. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-03 Rytis Kazakevičius , Aleksejus Kononovicius

We investigate a variant of the two-state $q$-voter model in which agents update their states under a random external field (which points upward with probability $s$ and downward with probability $1-s$) with probability $p$ or adopt the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-22 Roni Muslim , Jihye Kim , Noriko Oikawa , Rinto Anugraha N Q Z , Zulkaida Akbar