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We propose an opinion model based on agents located at the vertices of a regular lattice. Each agent has an independent opinion (among an arbitrary, but fixed, number of choices) and its own degree of conviction. The latter changes every…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-05-29 S. R. Souza , S. Goncalves

This work describes a collective decision-making dynamical process in a multiagent system under the assumption of cooperative higher-order interactions within the community, modeled as a hypernetwork. The nonlinear interconnected system is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Angela Fontan , Silun Zhang

In this work we propose and investigate a strategy to prevent consensus in kinetic models for opinion formation. We consider a large interacting agent system, and assume that agent interactions are driven by compromise as well as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Bertram Düring , Jonathan Franceschi , Marie-Therese Wolfram , Mattia Zanella

Formation of consensus, in binary yes/no type of voting, is a well defined process. However, even in presence of clear incentives, the dynamics involved can be incredibly complex. Specifically, formations of large groups of similarly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-14 Sudip Mukherjee , Soumyajyoti Biswas , Parongama Sen

We focus on non-consensus opinion models in which above a certain threshold two opinions coexist in a stable relationship. We revisit and extend the non-consensus opinion (NCO) model introduced by Shao. We generalize the NCO model by adding…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-11 Qian Li , Lidia A. Braunstein , Huijuan Wang , Jia Shao , H. Eugene Stanley , Shlomo Havlin

We present stochastic consensus and convergence of the discrete consensus-based optimization (CBO) algorithm with random batch interactions and heterogeneous external noises. Despite the wide applications and successful performance in many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Dongnam Ko , Seung-Yeal Ha , Shi Jin , Doheon Kim

Opinion polarization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in opinion dynamics. In contrast to the traditional consensus oriented group decision making (GDM) framework, this paper proposes a framework with the co-evolution of both opinions and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Qingxing Dong , Xin Zhou

A Consensus Model according to Deffuant on a directed Barabasi-Albert network was simulated. Agents have opinions on different subjects. A multi-component subject vector was used. The opinions are discrete. The analysis regards distribution…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Dirk Jacobmeier

Information retrieval is not only the most frequent application executed on the Web but it is also the base of different types of applications. Considering collective intelligence of groups of individuals as a framework for evaluating and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-05-25 Massimiliano Dal Mas

With advancements in reasoning capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly employed for automated judgment tasks. While LLMs-as-Judges offer promise in automating evaluations, current approaches often rely on simplistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Tianyu Hu , Zhen Tan , Song Wang , Huaizhi Qu , Tianlong Chen

The voter model is an archetypal stochastic process that represents opinion dynamics. In each update, one agent is chosen uniformly at random. The selected agent then copies the current opinion of a randomly selected neighbour. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-20 Michael T. Gastner , Kota Ishida

Recent advances in explainable recommendations have explored the integration of language models to analyze natural language rationales for user-item interactions. Despite their potential, existing methods often rely on ID-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Xinshun Feng , Mingzhe Liu , Yi Qiao , Tongyu Zhu , Leilei Sun , Shuai Wang

Multi-agent LLM systems increasingly tackle complex reasoning, yet their interaction patterns remain limited to voting, unstructured debate, or pipeline orchestration. None model deliberation: a phased process where differentiated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sunil Prakash

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

Concept bottleneck models (CBMs) are interpretable neural networks that first predict labels for human-interpretable concepts relevant to the prediction task, and then predict the final label based on the concept label predictions. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Kushal Chauhan , Rishabh Tiwari , Jan Freyberg , Pradeep Shenoy , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham

In the voter model, each node of a graph has an opinion, and in every round each node chooses independently a random neighbour and adopts its opinion. We are interested in the consensus time, which is the first point in time where all nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Petra Berenbrink , George Giakkoupis , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn

Neural conversation models tend to generate safe, generic responses for most inputs. This is due to the limitations of likelihood-based decoding objectives in generation tasks with diverse outputs, such as conversation. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Ashutosh Baheti , Alan Ritter , Jiwei Li , Bill Dolan

It is interesting and of significant importance to investigate how network structures co-evolve with opinions. The existing models of such co-evolution typically lead to the final states where network nodes either reach a global consensus…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-25 Yi Yu , Gaoxi Xiao , Guoqi Li , Wee Peng Tay , Hao Fatt Teoh

We developed a statistical mechanics approach to the problem of opinion formation in interacting agents, constrained by a set of social rules, $B$. To provide the agents with an adaptive quality, we represented both the social agents and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-28 Juan Pablo Neirotti

This study addresses the challenge that generative models struggle to balance flexibility, stability, and controllability in complex interactive scenarios. It proposes a controllable generation framework for dynamic interactive content…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Rui Liu