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We study opinion dynamics on networks with a nontrivial community structure, assuming individuals can update their binary opinion as the result of the interactions with an external influence with strength $h\in [0,1]$ and with other…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Simone Baldassarri , Anna Gallo , Vanessa Jacquier , Alessandro Zocca

There is a resurgent interest in developing intelligent open-domain dialog systems due to the availability of large amounts of conversational data and the recent progress on neural approaches to conversational AI. Unlike traditional…

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This paper focuses on the convergence of infor- mation in distributed systems of agents communicating over a network. The information on which the convergence is sought is not represented by real numbers, rather by sets of real numbers,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-01-13 Adriano Fagiolini , Nevio Dubbini , Antonio Bicchi

This paper presents the formulation and analysis of a fully distributed dynamic event-triggered communication based robust dynamic average consensus algorithm. Dynamic average consensus problem involves a networked set of agents estimating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Jemin George , Xinlei Yi , Tao Yang

The voter model is a classical interacting particle system modelling how consensus is formed across a network. We analyse the time to consensus for the voter model when the underlying graph is a subcritical scale-free random graph.…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-02 John Fernley , Marcel Ortgiese

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

A robust output feedback consensus problem for networked identical nonlinear negative-imaginary (NI) systems is investigated in this paper. Output consensus is achieved by applying identical linear output strictly negative-imaginary (OSNI)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Kanghong Shi , Igor G. Vladimirov , Ian R. Petersen

We consider a class of models of opinion formation where the dissemination of individual opinions occurs through the spreading of local consensus and disagreement. We study the emergence of full collective consensus or maximal disagreement…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-12-23 Andrés Chacoma , Damián H. Zanette

Online discussions are often characterized by strong behavioral asymmetries: a relatively small fraction of users actively produces content, while the majority primarily consumes and redistributes it. Here we propose a community-detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Stefano Guarino , Ayoub Mounim , Guido Caldarelli , Fabio Saracco

Mutual misunderstanding in contemporary society does not arise merely because people hold different opinions or values. Even under the same observations, different subjects may form different inferential targets, state representations,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Toru Takahashi

We introduce the concept of community consensus in the presence of malicious agents using a well-known median-based consensus algorithm. We consider networks that have multiple well-connected regions that we term communities, characterized…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Cristina Gava , Aron Vekassy , Matthew Cavorsi , Stephanie Gil , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn

One approach to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) is through the emergence of complex structures and dynamic properties arising from decentralized networks of interacting artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Understanding the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Anton Kolonin , Ben Goertzel , Deborah Duong , Matt Ikle

In this paper, we propose a deep, globally normalized topic model that incorporates structural relationships connecting documents in socially generated corpora, such as online forums. Our model (1) captures discursive interactions along…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Nikita Srivatsan , Zachary Wojtowicz , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities in mathematical and scientific tasks. To enhance complex reasoning, multi-agent systems have been proposed to harness the collective intelligence of LLM agents.…

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Discourse coherence is strongly associated with text quality, making it important to natural language generation and understanding. Yet existing models of coherence focus on measuring individual aspects of coherence (lexical overlap,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Jiwei Li , Dan Jurafsky

We consider the following distributed consensus problem: Each node in a complete communication network of size $n$ initially holds an \emph{opinion}, which is chosen arbitrarily from a finite set $\Sigma$. The system must converge toward a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Luca Becchetti , Andrea Clementi , Emanuele Natale , Francesco Pasquale , Luca Trevisan

Coherent states have been increasingly considered in optical quantum communications (OQCs). With the inherent non-orthogonality of coherent states, non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA) naturally lends itself to the implementation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Zhichao Dong , Xiaolin Zhou , Yongkang Chen , Wei Ni , Ekram Hossain , Xin Wang

A hybrid model for opinion dynamics in complex multi-agent networks is introduced, wherein some continuous-valued agents average neighbors' opinions to update their own, while other discrete-valued agents use stochastic copying and voting…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Mengran Xue , Sandip Roy

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) provide inherent interpretability by first predicting a set of human-understandable concepts and then mapping them to labels through a simple classifier. While users can intervene in the concept space to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Hangzhou He , Lei Zhu , Kaiwen Li , Xinliang Zhang , Jiakui Hu , Ourui Fu , Zhengjian Yao , Yanye Lu