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Publications (35)

physics.soc-ph2021

Complex social contagion induces bistability on multiplex networks

Longzhao Liu, Xin Wang, Shaoting Tang +2

Social reinforcement mechanism, which characterizes the promoting effects when exposing to multiple sources in social contagion process, is ubiquitous in information-technology eco…

cs.HC2026

Toward Annotation-Efficient Continuous Emotion Arousal Quantification via Group-Level EEG Dynamic Neural Synchrony

Guandong Pan, Yaqian Yang, Shi Chen +4

The paper proposes using group-level EEG dynamic neural synchrony as a signal to continuously quantify emotional arousal without needing per‑subject manual annotations, showing tha…

#eeg#emotional arousal#dynamic neural synchrony#group-level analysis
physics.soc-ph2015

Detecting the Influence of Spreading in Social Networks with Excitable Sensor Networks

Sen Pei, Shaoting Tang, Zhiming Zheng

Detecting spreading outbreaks in social networks with sensors is of great significance in applications. Inspired by the formation mechanism of human's physical sensations to extern…

physics.comp-ph2026

Reinforcement learning with reputation-based adaptive exploration promotes the evolution of cooperation

An Li, Wenqiang Zhu, Chaoqian Wang +5

Multi-agent reinforcement learning serves as an effective tool for studying strategy adaptation in evolutionary games. Although prior work has integrated Q-learning with reputation…

physics.soc-ph2025

Emergence, Evolution and Manipulation of Swing Voters in Presidential Election

Ziqian Liu, Xin Wang, Junyu Lu +3

Political polarization, fueled by public discourse and echo chambers, threatens the foundation of democratic elections. However, traditional one-dimensional opinion models -- assum…

physics.soc-ph2023

Reputation-based synergy and discounting mechanism promotes cooperation

Wenqiang Zhu, Xin Wang, Chaoqian Wang +3

A good group reputation often facilitates more efficient synergistic teamwork in production activities. Here we translate this simple motivation into a reputation-based synergy and…

physics.soc-ph2026

Indirect Reciprocity with Environmental Feedback

Yishen Jiang, Xin Wang, Ming Wei +4

Indirect reciprocity maintains cooperation in stranger societies by mapping individual behaviors onto reputation signals via social norms. Existing theoretical frameworks assume st…

physics.soc-ph2024

Indirect reciprocity in the public goods game with collective reputations

Ming Wei, Xin Wang, Longzhao Liu +6

Indirect reciprocity unveils how social cooperation is founded upon moral systems. Within the frame of dyadic games based on individual reputations, the "leading-eight" strategies…

stat.AP2014

Dynamical Immunization Strategy for Seasonal Epidemics

Shu Yan, Shaoting Tang, Sen Pei +2

The topic of finding effective strategy to halt virus in complex network is of current interest. We propose an immunization strategy for seasonal epidemics that occur periodically.…

physics.soc-ph2021

Phase transition and cascading collapse in binary decision-making dynamics

Xuyang Chen, Xin Wang, Longzhao Liu +2

Binary decision-making process is ubiquitous in social life and is of vital significance in many real-world issues, ranging from public health to political campaigns. While continu…

physics.soc-ph2026

Stereotyping by strategy standing diversifies cooperation patterns in indirect reciprocity

Ming Wei, Xin Wang, Wenqiang Zhu +4

Indirect reciprocity explains how cooperation evolves through social reputations. People observe others, assign reputations, and condition their future actions on these assignments…

cs.NI2025

ContribChain: A Stress-Balanced Blockchain Sharding Protocol with Node Contribution Awareness

Xinpeng Huang, Wanqing Jie, Shiwen Zhang +8

Existing blockchain sharding protocols have focused on eliminating imbalanced workload distributions. However, even with workload balance, disparities in processing capabilities ca…

physics.soc-ph2022

Probabilistic activity driven model of temporal simplicial networks and its application on higher-order dynamics

Zhihao Han, Longzhao Liu, Xin Wang +4

Network modeling characterizes the underlying principles of structural properties and is of vital significance for simulating dynamical processes in real world. However, bridging s…

q-bio.NC2013

How to enhance the dynamic range of excitatory-inhibitory excitable networks

Sen Pei, Shaoting Tang, Shu Yan +3

We investigate the collective dynamics of excitatory-inhibitory excitable networks in response to external stimuli. How to enhance dynamic range, which represents the ability of ne…

physics.soc-ph2025

Evolution of cooperation and competition in multilayer networks

Wenqiang Zhu, Xin Wang, Chaoqian Wang +5

Cooperation and competition coexist and coevolve in natural and social systems. Cooperation generates resources, which in turn, drive non-cooperative competition to secure individu…

physics.soc-ph2024

Evolutionary dynamics in stochastic nonlinear public goods games

Wenqiang Zhu, Xin Wang, Chaoqian Wang +6

Understanding the evolution of cooperation in multiplayer games is of vital significance for natural and social systems. An important challenge is that group interactions often lea…

physics.soc-ph2020

Community Detection through Vector-label Propagation Algorithms

Wenyi Fang, Xin Wang, Longzhao Liu +3

Community detection is a fundamental and important problem in network science, as community structures often reveal both topological and functional relationships between different…

q-bio.NC2022

Enhanced brain structure-function tethering in transmodal cortex revealed by high-frequency eigenmodes

Yaqian Yang, Zhiming Zheng, Longzhao Liu +5

The brain's structural connectome supports signal propagation between neuronal elements, shaping diverse coactivation patterns that can be captured as functional connectivity. Whil…

nlin.AO2026

Nonlinear Public Goods Game in Dynamical Environments

Yishen Jiang, Xin Wang, Wenqiang Zhu +4

The evolutionary mechanisms of cooperative behavior represent a fundamental topic in complex systems and evolutionary dynamics. Real-world collective interactions, particularly in…

eess.AS2025

Toward a Realistic Encoding Model of Auditory Affective Understanding in the Brain

Guandong Pan, Yaqian Yang, Shi Chen +4

In affective neuroscience and emotion-aware AI, understanding how complex auditory stimuli drive emotion arousal dynamics remains unresolved. This study introduces a computational…

physics.soc-ph2020

Community detection based on first passage probabilities

Zhaole Wu, Xin Wang, Wenyi Fang +4

Community detection is of fundamental significance for understanding the topology characters and the spreading dynamics on complex networks. While random walk is widely used and is…

eess.SP2025

Potential Indicator for Continuous Emotion Arousal by Dynamic Neural Synchrony

Guandong Pan, Zhaobang Wu, Yaqian Yang +4

The need for automatic and high-quality emotion annotation is paramount in applications such as continuous emotion recognition and video highlight detection, yet achieving this thr…

physics.soc-ph2009

Detecting Structure of Complex Network by Quantum Bosonic Dynamics

Xin Jiang, Hailong Wang, Lili Ma +4

We introduce a non-interacting boson model to investigate topological structure of complex networks in the present paper. By exactly solving this model, we show that it provides a…

physics.soc-ph2015

Identification of highly susceptible individuals in complex networks

Shaoting Tang, Xian Teng, Sen Pei +2

Identifying highly susceptible individuals in spreading processes is of great significance in controlling outbreaks. In this paper, we explore the susceptibility of people in susce…

physics.soc-ph2026

Immunization on Temporal Higher-Order Networks

Zhihao Han, Longzhao Liu, Xin Wang +3

Network immunization is a powerful tool for controlling contagion processes ranging from infectious diseases to misinformation diffusion. While prior works have focused on pairwise…

physics.soc-ph2026

Indirect reciprocity beyond pairwise interactions

Ming Wei, Xin Wang, Junyu Lu +5

Cooperation in groups underpins collective responses to challenges from climate governance to public goods provision, yet how moral evaluation sustains it remains poorly understood…

physics.soc-ph2022

Nonlinear eco-evolutionary games with global environmental fluctuations and local environmental feedbacks

Yishen Jiang, Xin Wang, Longzhao Liu +4

Environmental changes play a critical role in determining the evolution of social dilemmas in many natural or social systems. Generally, the environmental changes include two promi…

physics.soc-ph2026

Emergent dilemma and periodic oscillation in the nonlinear interplay between epidemic and behavior

Longzhao Liu, Hongwei Zheng, Yajing Hao +3

Human behaviors, particularly non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), are dynamically coupled with epidemic spreading. While prior studies mainly assume a linear interplay, real-w…

physics.soc-ph2015

Exploring the complex pattern of information spreading in online blog communities

Sen Pei, Lev Muchnik, Shaoting Tang +2

Information spreading in online social communities has attracted tremendous attention due to its utmost practical values in applications. Despite that several individual-level diff…

physics.soc-ph2025

Higher-order network adaptivity: co-evolution of higher-order structure and spreading dynamics

Longzhao Liu, Hongwei Zheng, Zhihao Han +2

The co-evolution of structure and dynamics, known as adaptivity, is a fundamental property in various systems and drives diverse emergent behaviors. However, the adaptivity in prev…

physics.soc-ph2025

A unified framework for identifying influential nodes in hypergraphs

Yajing Hao, Longzhao Liu, Xin Wang +4

Identifying influential nodes plays a pivotal role in understanding, controlling, and optimizing the behavior of complex systems, ranging from social to biological and technologica…

physics.soc-ph2019

Homophily on social networks changes evolutionary advantage in competitive information diffusion

Longzhao Liu, Xin Wang, Yi Zheng +3

Competitive information diffusion on large-scale social networks reveals fundamental characteristics of rumor contagions and has profound influence on public opinion formation. The…

physics.soc-ph2026

Identifying vulnerable nodes for hypergraph dismantling via higher-order competition dynamics

Yajing Hao, Longzhao Liu, Xin Wang +3

Network dismantling aims to identify a node removal sequence that can rapidly destroy network connectivity, which is an important problem for understanding the structural fragility…

physics.soc-ph2020

Modeling confirmation bias and peer pressure in opinion dynamics

Longzhao Liu, Xin Wang, Shaoting Tang +1

Confirmation bias and peer pressure both have substantial impacts on the formation of collective decisions. Nevertheless, few attempts have been made to study how the interplay bet…

physics.soc-ph2020

Public discourse and social network echo chambers driven by socio-cognitive biases

Xin Wang, Antonio D. Sirianni, Shaoting Tang +2

In recent years, social media has increasingly become an important platform for political campaigns, especially elections. It remains elusive how exactly public discourse is driven…