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  1. Multiscale Exit-Join Dynamics: Tactical Consensus and Strategic Coalition Formation

    Jun 19, 2026Quanyan ZhuCooperative Game TheoryMulti-Agent Coordination

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering New York University Tandon School of Engineering Brooklyn, NY, USA

  2. Hidden Anchors in Multi-Agent LLM Deliberation

    Jun 17, 2026Apurba Pokharel, Ram DantuOpinion DynamicsMulti-Agent Debate

    Department of CSE University of North Texas 76207, Denton, TX, USA

  3. Escape from Delusional Echo Trap: Symmetry Breaking, Stochastic Dynamics and Mathematical Mitigation Strategies for Algorithmic Sycophancy

    Jun 16, 2026Sayantari Ghosh, Saumik Bhattacharya, Partha Pratim ChakrabartiBelief RevisionLLM Sycophancy

    National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Durgapur, India · Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India

  4. Modelling Opinion Dynamics at Scale with Deep MARL

    Jun 5, 2026Lukas Seier, Brandon Kaplowitz, Sebastian Towers +2Opinion DynamicsMulti-Agent Consensus

    FLAIR University of Oxford United Kingdom · OWL University of Oxford United Kingdom · OUCE University of Oxford United Kingdom

  5. Characterizing Opinion Evolution of Networked LLMs

    Jun 5, 2026Caleb Probine, Yigit Ege Bayiz, Filippos Fotiadis +3Multi-Agent LLM SystemsOpinion Dynamics

    The University of Texas at Austin

  6. Modeling U.S. Attitudes Toward China via an Event-Steered Multi-Agent Simulator

    Jun 5, 2026Chenxu Zhu, Hantao Yao, Wu Liu +2Opinion DynamicsHuman Behavior Simulation

    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei 230026, China · People.cn, Beijing, China

  7. Comparing Sentiment Contagion in AI-Agent and Human Social Networks: Evidence from MOLTBOOK

    Jun 4, 2026Elyes Ben chaabane, Savindu Herath, Yash Raj ShresthaSocial Media AnalysisOpinion Dynamics

    UNIL · ETH Zurich

  8. A Model of Multi-turn Human Persuadability Using Probabilistic Belief Tracing

    Jun 3, 2026Jared Moore, Noah Goodman, Nick Haber +1Opinion DynamicsHuman-AI Interaction

    Stanford University · University of Washington

  9. The incremental voter model: mean-field analysis and convergence to equilibrium

    May 27, 2026Fei Cao, Xiaoqian GongOpinion DynamicsComputational Social Science

    Amherst College - Department of Mathematics, Amherst, MA 01002, USA

  10. Multi-Agent Systems are Mixtures of Experts: Who Becomes an Influencer?

    May 25, 2026Franka Bause, Jonas Niederle, Martin Pawelczyk +1Multi-Agent LLM SystemsOpinion Dynamics

    CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbrücken, Germany · Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

  11. LLM Agents Make Collective Belief Dynamics Programmable: Challenges and Research Directions

    May 19, 2026Xin He, Junxi Shen, Yuchen Mou +4Opinion DynamicsAI Agent Safety

    Centre for Frontier AI Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore · Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore · College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore +1

  12. AI-Mediated Communication Can Steer Collective Opinion

    May 15, 2026Stratis Tsirtsis, Kai Rawal, Chris Russell +2Opinion DynamicsLLM Auditing

    1Hasso Plattner Institute · 2Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford · 3Weizenbaum Institute

  13. Estimated Dynamic Equilibrium Model: Supply and Demand as a Sample Path of a Stochastic Process

    May 14, 2026Mikhail L. Arbuzov, Sisong Bei, Alexey ShvetsOpinion DynamicsQuantitative Finance

    Independent Researcher · Palo Alto Networks

  14. ScioMind: Cognitively Grounded Multi-Agent Social Simulation with Anchoring-Based Belief Dynamics and Dynamic Profiles

    May 13, 2026Yitian Yang, Yiqun Duan, Linghan Huang +4Multi-Agent LLM SystemsOpinion Dynamics

    The University of Sydney · Meta

  15. Conformity Generates Collective Misalignment in AI Agents Societies

    May 11, 2026Giordano De Marzo, Alessandro Bellina, Claudio Castellano +2Opinion DynamicsAI Agent Safety

    University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany · Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Rome, Italy · Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria +5

  16. Collective Alignment in LLM Multi-Agent Systems: Disentangling Bias from Cooperation via Statistical Physics

    May 11, 2026Cristiano De NobiliMulti-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Coordination

    Critiqality, Milan, Italy

  17. Change My View? The Dynamics of Persuasion and Polarization in Online Discourse

    May 8, 2026David Freeborn, Malihe Alikani, Anthony SiciliaBelief RevisionOpinion Dynamics

  18. The Cost of Consensus: Malignant Epistemic Herding and Adaptive Gating in Distributed Multi-Agent Search

    May 7, 2026David Farr, Iain Cruickshank, Kate Starbird +1Opinion DynamicsMulti-Agent Systems

    1*Information School, University of Washington, 1410 NE Campus Parkway, Seattle, 98195, WA, USA. · 2Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue,2026 Pittsburgh, 15213, PA, USA. · 3Human Centered Design Engineering, University of Washington, 1410 NE Campus Parkway, Seattle, 98195, WA, USA. +1

  19. Can LLMs Emulate Human Belief Dynamics?

    May 5, 2026Adiba Mahbub Proma, Neeley Pate, James N. Druckman +3Opinion DynamicsNormative Conformity in Language Models

    Department of Computer Science University of Rochester · Department of Political Science University of Rochester · Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Rochester

  20. Position: Safety and Fairness in Agentic AI Depend on Interaction Topology, Not on Model Scale or Alignment

    May 1, 2026Tanav Singh Bajaj, Nikhil Singh, Karan Anand +1Opinion DynamicsAI Agent Safety

    Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada · Department of Artificial Intelligence, IIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India · Amazon, Delhi, India.

  21. Opinion polarization from compression-based decision making where agents optimize local complexity and global simplicity

    Apr 20, 2026Alina Dubovskaya, David J. P. O'Sullivan, Michael QuayleOpinion DynamicsCognitive Modeling

    Centre for Social Issues Research, Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland · Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Industry (MACSI), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Limerick, Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland · Lero, the Research Ireland Centre for Software, University of Limerick, Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland

  22. LLMs can persuade only psychologically susceptible humans on societal issues, via trust in AI and emotional appeals, amid logical fallacies

    Apr 18, 2026Alexis Carrillo, Salvatore Citraro, Ali Aghazhadeh Ardebili +5Opinion DynamicsTrust in AI

    CogNosco Lab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy · Institute of Information Science and Technologies “Alessandro Faedo", National Research Council, Italy · Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA +2

  23. Collective Opinion Dynamics in Structured LLM Populations

    Apr 13, 2026Erica Cau, Andrea Failla, Giulio RossettiMulti-Agent LLM SystemsOpinion Dynamics

    Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa · ISTI-CNR

  24. Beyond Preset Identities: Selective Stance Accommodation and Interaction Reorganisation in Generative Agent Societies

    Mar 24, 2026Hanzhong Zhang, Siyang Song, Jindong WangLarge Language Model-Based Social SimulationMulti-Agent Communication

    University of Exeter Exeter, UK · William & Mary Williamsburg, VA, USA

  25. The Hidden Puppet Master: Predicting Human Belief Change in Manipulative LLM Dialogues

    Mar 21, 2026Jocelyn Shen, Amina Luvsanchultem, Jessica Kim +6Opinion DynamicsLanguage Model Safety Evaluation

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA · Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  26. Subjective-Graph LLM Agents for Simulating Uncertainty in Classroom Social Perception

    Mar 21, 2026Jinming Yang, Xinyu Jiang, Xinshan Jiao +1Multi-Agent LLM SystemsOpinion Dynamics

    Complex Lab, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China · Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · School of Health and Medical Technology, Chengdu Neusoft University, Chengdu,2026 China

  27. Grounded Laplacians of Directed Signed Matrix-Weighted Networks: Spectral Properties and Applications to Non-Trivial Consensus

    Feb 12, 2026Tianmu Niu, Bing Mao, Hao Liao +2Multi-Agent CoordinationOpinion Dynamics

  28. Generating consensus and dissent on massive discussion platforms with a semantic-vector model

    Jan 20, 2026A. Ferrer, D. Muñoz-Jordán, A. Rivero +3Opinion DynamicsComputational Social Science

    Instituto de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos (BIFI), Universidad de Zaragoza, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain · Kampal Data Solutions, WTCZ, Avda. Maria Zambrano 31, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain · Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain +2

  29. The price of uncertainty for social consensus

    Aug 24, 2025Yunzhe Bai, Alec SunOpinion DynamicsMulti-Agent Consensus