Learning Social Influence with Unobserved Attention

DOI10.48550/arXiv.2610.12616MaRDI QIDQ7388579arXivFDO

Authors Moyi Tian, Linh Huynh, Alexander Wiedemann, Vicki Modisette, Heather Z. Brooks, William Thompson, Philip S. Chodrow

Publication date 8 October 2026

Published in arXiv

Tldr We introduce an agent-based model that explicitly models unobserved attention mechanisms and develop efficient algorithms to fit it to opinion traces with such mechanisms. The model includes two latent mechanisms: selection (interacting with only one other agent) and retention (ignoring opinions).

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.12616

arXiv classification

cs.SI physics.soc-ph stat.AP

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