Opinion Dynamics with Local Interactions

Authors: Dimitris Fotakis, Dimitris Palyvos-Giannas, Stratis Skoulakis

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Our experimental findings indicate that for a wide range of parameters, the convergence time and the number of opinion clusters of the neighborhood-restricted variants are comparable to those of the standard Hegselmann-Krause model.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Dimitris Fotakis and Dimitris Palyvos-Giannas and Stratis Skoulakis National Technical University of Athens fotakis@cs.ntua.gr, dpalyvos@corelab.ntua.gr, sskoul@corelab.ntua.gr
Pseudocode No No pseudocode or algorithm blocks were found.
Open Source Code No No explicit statement or link for open-source code for the described methodology was found.
Open Datasets Yes Finally, we test the network-HK model on the Facebook circles network [Leskovec, 2012], with 4039 nodes and 88234 edges (see Figure 6a).
Dataset Splits No The paper does not provide specific train/test/validation dataset splits.
Hardware Specification No No specific hardware (GPU/CPU models, memory, etc.) used for running experiments is mentioned.
Software Dependencies No No specific software dependencies with version numbers were mentioned.
Experiment Setup Yes We simulate the random-HK and the standard HK models for 625 agents and 21 values of " \in [.01, .45], repeating each run for 100 different initial opinion vectors to account for the randomness in local interaction. Opinions are selected uniformly at random from [0, 1] in all our simulations. We choose k = min(n/10, log n/") to ensure that with high probability every agent has some neighbors in each cluster.