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Polarization in Attraction-Repulsion Models

Comacchia, Elisabetta
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Singer, Neta
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Abbe, Emmanuel  
January 1, 2020
2020 Ieee International Symposium On Information Theory (Isit)
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

This paper introduces a model for opinion dynamics, where at each time step, randomly selected agents see their opinions - modeled as scalars in [0, 1] - evolve depending on a local interaction function. In the classical Bounded Confidence Model, agents opinions get attracted when they are close enough. The proposed model extends this by adding a repulsion component, which models the effect of opinions getting further pushed away when dissimilar enough. With this repulsion component added, and under a repulsion-attraction cleavage assumption, it is shown that a new stable configuration emerges beyond the classical consensus configuration, namely the polarization configuration. More specifically, it is shown that total consensus and total polarization are the only two possible limiting configurations. The paper further provides an analysis of the infinite population regime in dimension 1 and higher, with a phase transition phenomenon conjectured and backed heuristically.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174010
Web of Science ID

WOS:000714963402145

Author(s)
Comacchia, Elisabetta
Singer, Neta
Abbe, Emmanuel  
Date Issued

2020-01-01

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2020 Ieee International Symposium On Information Theory (Isit)
ISBN of the book

978-1-7281-6432-8

Series title/Series vol.

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

Start page

2765

End page

2770

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REVIEWED

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IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

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Jun 21-26, 2020

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December 18, 2021
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