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Reasoning about Consensus when Opinions Diffuse through Majority Dynamics [PDF]
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018 Opinion diffusion is studied on social graphs where agents hold binary opinions and where social pressure leads them to conform to the opinion manifested by their neighbors. Within this setting, questions related to whether a minority/majority can spread the opinion it supports to all the other agents are considered.It is shown that, no matter of the ...
Vincenzo Auletta +2 more
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Social clustering reinforces external influence on the majority opinion model [PDF]
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its ApplicationsPublic opinion is subject to peer interaction via social networks and external pressure from the media, advertising, and other actors. In this paper, we study the interaction between external and peer influence on the stochastic opinion dynamics of a majority vote model.
Niels Van Santen +2 more
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Noise and opinion dynamics: how ambiguity promotes pro-majority consensus in the presence of confirmation bias [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceOpinion dynamics are affected by cognitive biases and noise. While mathematical models have focused extensively on biases, we still know surprisingly little about how noise shapes opinion patterns.
Peter Steiglechner +4 more
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Self-identity and majority opinion
The Proceedings of Mechanical Engineering Congress, Japan, 2021 Yoshiaki Konishi
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Three Majority-Based Deterministic Dynamics for Three Opinions
AppliedMathPhenomena from a variety of disciplines, including biology, computer science and sociology, can be modeled by graph dynamics in which nodes are associated with states and the node-state association changes in time. Although general k-state dynamics have been considered, most of the research in this area refers to binary dynamics especially as far as ...
Miriam Di Ianni
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The dynamics of public opinion under majority rules
, 2001 This note explains the process of public opinion formation via a locally interactive, space-time analysis. The model we use is a special case of the general framework for modelling social interaction proposed in Blume and Durlauf (2001).
Corradi, V., Ianni, A.
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3-Majority and 2-Choices with Many Opinions [PDF]
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed ComputingWe present the first nearly-optimal bounds on the consensus time for the well-known synchronous consensus dynamics, specifically 3-Majority and 2-Choices, for an arbitrary number of opinions. In synchronous consensus dynamics, we consider an $n$-vertex complete graph with self-loops, where each vertex holds an opinion from $\{1,\dots,k\}$.
Nobutaka Shimizu, Takeharu Shiraga
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The Sound of Silence: Minorities, Abstention and Democracy
Entropy, 2021 Despite the existence of an extensive literature, no definitive conclusion seems to emerge on the extent to which minorities are guaranteed by democratic rules in political systems.
Alessio Emanuele Biondo +2 more
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A note on the consensus time of mean-field majority-rule dynamics [PDF]
Papers in Physics, 2009 In this work, it is pointed out that in the mean-field version of majority-rule opinion dynamics the dependence of the consensus time on the population size exhibits two regimes.
Damián H. Zanette
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How Does a Minority Opinion Spread?
Proceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2023 In this paper, we propose a discrete opinion model in which two beliefs models compete. One opinion is endorsed by the vast majority of agents, but this majority remains silent and rarely expresses its opinion.
Luca Baccino, Serena Villata
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