Broken detailed balance and non-equilibrium dynamics in noisy social learning models

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2021.125818zbMATH Open1478.82005arXiv1906.11481OpenAlexW3129013369MaRDI QIDQ2067461FDOQ2067461

Authors: Tushar Vaidya, Thiparat Chotibut, Georgios Piliouras 

Publication date: 18 January 2022

Published in: Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose new Degroot-type social learning models with feedback in a continuous time, to investigate the effect of a noisy information source on consensus formation in a social network. Unlike the standard Degroot framework, noisy information models destroy consensus formation. On the other hand, the noisy opinion dynamics converge to the equilibrium distribution that encapsulates correlations among agents' opinions. Interestingly, such an equilibrium distribution is also a non-equilibrium steady state (NESS) with a non-zero probabilistic current loop. Thus, noisy information source leads to a NESS at long times that encodes persistent correlated opinion dynamics of learning agents. Our model provides a simple realization of NESS in the context of social learning. Other phenomena such as synchronization of opinions when agents are subject to a common noise are also studied.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11481

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zbMATH Keywords

social learningnon-equilibrium steady statebroken detailed balanceDeGroot learningsynchronization of opinions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Game theory (91A99) Applications of statistical and quantum mechanics to economics (econophysics) (91B80) Genetics and population dynamics (92D99) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05) Stochastic methods applied to problems in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B31)

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