Modeling Descriptive Norms in Multi-Agent Systems: An Auto-Aggregation PDE Framework with Adaptive Perception Kernels

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Main Authors: Li, Chao, Derevitskii, Ilia, Kovalchuk, Sergey
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author Li, Chao
Derevitskii, Ilia
Kovalchuk, Sergey
author_facet Li, Chao
Derevitskii, Ilia
Kovalchuk, Sergey
contents This paper presents a PDE-based auto-aggregation model for simulating descriptive norm dynamics in autonomous multi-agent systems, capturing convergence and violation through non-local perception kernels and external potential fields. Extending classical transport equations, the framework represents opinion popularity as a continuous distribution, enabling direct interactions without Bayesian guessing of beliefs. Applied to a real-world COVID-19 dataset from a major medical center, the experimental results demonstrate that: when clinical guidelines serve as a top-down constraint mechanism, it effectively generates convergence of novel descriptive norms consistent with the dataset; in the bottom-up experiment, potential field guidance successfully promotes the system's reconstruction of descriptive norms aligned with the dataset through violation-and-recoupling; whereas fully autonomous interaction leads to the emergence of multi-centric normative structures independent of the dataset.
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spellingShingle Modeling Descriptive Norms in Multi-Agent Systems: An Auto-Aggregation PDE Framework with Adaptive Perception Kernels
Li, Chao
Derevitskii, Ilia
Kovalchuk, Sergey
Systems and Control
Multiagent Systems
This paper presents a PDE-based auto-aggregation model for simulating descriptive norm dynamics in autonomous multi-agent systems, capturing convergence and violation through non-local perception kernels and external potential fields. Extending classical transport equations, the framework represents opinion popularity as a continuous distribution, enabling direct interactions without Bayesian guessing of beliefs. Applied to a real-world COVID-19 dataset from a major medical center, the experimental results demonstrate that: when clinical guidelines serve as a top-down constraint mechanism, it effectively generates convergence of novel descriptive norms consistent with the dataset; in the bottom-up experiment, potential field guidance successfully promotes the system's reconstruction of descriptive norms aligned with the dataset through violation-and-recoupling; whereas fully autonomous interaction leads to the emergence of multi-centric normative structures independent of the dataset.
title Modeling Descriptive Norms in Multi-Agent Systems: An Auto-Aggregation PDE Framework with Adaptive Perception Kernels
topic Systems and Control
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06557