no code implementations • 26 Oct 2023 • Jennifer Tang, Aviv Adler, Amir Ajorlou, Ali Jadbabaie
To address this, Jadbabaie et al. formulated the interacting P\'olya urn model of opinion dynamics under social pressure and studied it on complete-graph social networks using an aggregate estimator, and found that their estimator converges to the inherent beliefs unless majority pressure pushes the network to consensus.
no code implementations • 18 Aug 2023 • Jennifer Tang, Aviv Adler, Amir Ajorlou, Ali Jadbabaie
To study this, the interacting Polya urn model was introduced by Jadbabaie et al., in which each agent has two kinds of opinion: inherent beliefs, which are hidden from the other agents and fixed; and declared opinions, which are randomly sampled at each step from a distribution which depends on the agent's inherent belief and her neighbors' past declared opinions (the social pressure component), and which is then communicated to their neighbors.
