Leveraging Uncertainty in Collective Opinion Dynamics with Heterogeneity
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| author | Mengers, Vito Raoufi, Mohsen Brock, Oliver Hamann, Heiko Romanczuk, Pawel |
| author_facet | Mengers, Vito Raoufi, Mohsen Brock, Oliver Hamann, Heiko Romanczuk, Pawel |
| contents | Natural and artificial collectives exhibit heterogeneities across different dimensions, contributing to the complexity of their behavior. We investigate the effect of two such heterogeneities on collective opinion dynamics: heterogeneity of the quality of agents' prior information and of centrality in the network, i.e., the number of immediate neighbors. To study these heterogeneities, we not only consider them in our model, proposing a novel network generator with heterogeneous centrality, but also introduce uncertainty as an additional dimension. By quantifying the uncertainty of each agent, we provide a mechanism for agents to adaptively weigh their individual against social information. As uncertainties develop according to the interactions between agents, they capture information on heterogeneities. Therefore, uncertainty is a relevant additional observable in the study of complex collective opinion dynamics that we use to show the bidirectional relationship of heterogeneous centrality and information. Furthermore, we demonstrate that uncertainty-driven adaptive weighting leads to increased accuracy and speed of consensus, especially under heterogeneity, and provide guidelines for avoiding performance-decreasing errors in uncertainty modeling. These opportunities for improved performance and observability suggest the importance of uncertainty both for the study of natural and the design of artificial heterogeneous systems. |
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| spellingShingle | Leveraging Uncertainty in Collective Opinion Dynamics with Heterogeneity Mengers, Vito Raoufi, Mohsen Brock, Oliver Hamann, Heiko Romanczuk, Pawel Physics and Society Social and Information Networks Natural and artificial collectives exhibit heterogeneities across different dimensions, contributing to the complexity of their behavior. We investigate the effect of two such heterogeneities on collective opinion dynamics: heterogeneity of the quality of agents' prior information and of centrality in the network, i.e., the number of immediate neighbors. To study these heterogeneities, we not only consider them in our model, proposing a novel network generator with heterogeneous centrality, but also introduce uncertainty as an additional dimension. By quantifying the uncertainty of each agent, we provide a mechanism for agents to adaptively weigh their individual against social information. As uncertainties develop according to the interactions between agents, they capture information on heterogeneities. Therefore, uncertainty is a relevant additional observable in the study of complex collective opinion dynamics that we use to show the bidirectional relationship of heterogeneous centrality and information. Furthermore, we demonstrate that uncertainty-driven adaptive weighting leads to increased accuracy and speed of consensus, especially under heterogeneity, and provide guidelines for avoiding performance-decreasing errors in uncertainty modeling. These opportunities for improved performance and observability suggest the importance of uncertainty both for the study of natural and the design of artificial heterogeneous systems. |
| title | Leveraging Uncertainty in Collective Opinion Dynamics with Heterogeneity |
| topic | Physics and Society Social and Information Networks |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03354 |