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Social Opinion Formation and Decision Making Under Communication Trends

Kayaalp, Mert  
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Bordignon, Virginia  
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Sayed, Ali H.  
January 1, 2024
Ieee Transactions On Signal Processing

This work studies the learning process over social networks under partial and random information sharing. In traditional social learning models, agents exchange full belief information with each other while trying to infer the true state of nature. We study the case where agents share information about only one hypothesis, namely, the trending topic, which can be randomly changing at every iteration. We show that agents can learn the true hypothesis even if they do not discuss it, at rates comparable to traditional social learning. We also show that using one's own belief as a prior for estimating the neighbors' non-transmitted beliefs might create opinion clusters that prevent learning with full confidence. This phenomenon occurs when a single hypothesis corresponding to the truth is exchanged exclusively during all times. Such a practice, however, avoids the complete rejection of the truth under any information exchange procedure - something that could happen if priors were uniform.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TSP.2023.3347918
Web of Science ID

WOS:001165455800001

Author(s)
Kayaalp, Mert  
Bordignon, Virginia  
Sayed, Ali H.  
Date Issued

2024-01-01

Publisher

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc

Published in
Ieee Transactions On Signal Processing
Volume

72

Start page

506

End page

520

Subjects

Technology

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Social Networking (Online)

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Information Sharing

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Bayes Methods

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Decision Making

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Behavioral Sciences

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Optimization

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Blogs

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Social Learning

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Distributed Inference

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Distributed Hypothesis Testing

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Diffusion Strategy

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Trending Topics

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Partial Information Sharing

Editorial or Peer reviewed

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EPFL units
ASL  
FunderGrant Number

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Frderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

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March 18, 2024
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