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| author | Moreno-Morton, Rodrigo Bizyaeva, Anastasia Leonard, Naomi Ehrich Franci, Alessio |
| author_facet | Moreno-Morton, Rodrigo Bizyaeva, Anastasia Leonard, Naomi Ehrich Franci, Alessio |
| contents | Multi-agent systems in biology, society, and engineering are capable of making decisions through the dynamic interaction of their elements. Nonlinearity of the interactions is key for the speed, robustness, and flexibility of multi-agent decision-making. In this work we introduce modulatory, that is, multiplicative, in contrast to additive, interactions in a nonlinear opinion dynamics model of fast-and-flexible decision-making. The original model is nonlinear because network interactions, although additive, are saturated. Modulatory interactions introduce an extra source of nonlinearity that greatly enriches the model decision-making behavior in a mathematically tractable way. Modulatory interactions are widespread in both biological and social decision-making networks; our model provides new tools to understand the role of these interactions in networked decision-making and to engineer them in artificial systems. |
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| publishDate | 2024 |
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| spellingShingle | Fast-and-flexible decision-making with modulatory interactions Moreno-Morton, Rodrigo Bizyaeva, Anastasia Leonard, Naomi Ehrich Franci, Alessio Dynamical Systems 37G99 Multi-agent systems in biology, society, and engineering are capable of making decisions through the dynamic interaction of their elements. Nonlinearity of the interactions is key for the speed, robustness, and flexibility of multi-agent decision-making. In this work we introduce modulatory, that is, multiplicative, in contrast to additive, interactions in a nonlinear opinion dynamics model of fast-and-flexible decision-making. The original model is nonlinear because network interactions, although additive, are saturated. Modulatory interactions introduce an extra source of nonlinearity that greatly enriches the model decision-making behavior in a mathematically tractable way. Modulatory interactions are widespread in both biological and social decision-making networks; our model provides new tools to understand the role of these interactions in networked decision-making and to engineer them in artificial systems. |
| title | Fast-and-flexible decision-making with modulatory interactions |
| topic | Dynamical Systems 37G99 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00798 |