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20102026
most citedSocial physics

649 citations

44 papers

math.CO2026

A construction of 2-arc-transitive non-solvable covers of complete graphs

Jiyong Chen, Cai Heng Li, Ci Xuan Wu +1

We construct connected -arc-transitive covers of complete graphs with non-abelian characteristically simple transformation groups. This solves the existence problem for non-solv…

physics.soc-ph2026★ 4 cited

Shaping the learning signal in a combined Q-learning rule to improve structured cooperation

Chunpeng Du, Zongyang Li, Yali Zhang +2

Q-learning provides a standard reinforcement learning framework for studying cooperation by specifying how agents update action values from repeated local interactions outcomes. Al…

math.CO2025

Symmetry of the refined -Catalan polynomials for -Dyck paths

Menghao Qu, Yingrui Zhang

Pappe, Paul, and Schilling introduced two combinatorial statistics, depth and ddinv, associated with classical Dyck paths, and proved that the distributions of (area, depth) and (d…

cs.CV2025★ 2 cited

Graph-Driven Multimodal Feature Learning Framework for Apparent Personality Assessment

Kangsheng Wang, Chengwei Ye, Huanzhen Zhang +2

Predicting personality traits automatically has become a challenging problem in computer vision. This paper introduces an innovative multimodal feature learning framework for perso…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 22 cited

Mutation mitigates finite-size effects in spatial evolutionary games

Chen Shen, Zhixue He, Lei Shi +1

Agent-based simulations are essential for studying cooperation on spatial networks. However, finite-size effects -- random fluctuations due to limited network sizes -- can cause ce…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 3 cited

Indirect punishment can outperform direct punishment in promoting cooperation in structured populations

Yujia Wen, Zhixue He, Chen Shen +1

Indirect punishment traditionally sustains cooperation in social systems through reputation or norms, often by reducing defectors' payoffs indirectly. In this study, we redefine in…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 14 cited

Beyond a binary theorizing of prosociality

Chen Shen, Zhixue He, Hao Guo +4

A stylized experiment, the public goods game, has taught us the peculiar reproducible fact that humans tend to contribute more to shared resources than expected from economically r…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 13 cited

Detection of Contact Binary Candidates Observed By TESS Using Autoencoder Neural Network

Xu Ding, ZhiMing Song, ChuanJun Wang +1

Contact binary may be the progenitor of a red nova that eventually produces a merger event and have a cut-off period around 0.2 days. Therefore, a large number of contact binaries…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 2 cited

Constructive agents nullify the ability of destructive agents to foster cooperation in public goods games

Yuting Dong, Zhixue He, Chen Shen +2

Existing studies have revealed a paradoxical phenomenon in public goods games, wherein destructive agents, harming both cooperators and defectors, can unexpectedly bolster cooperat…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 11 cited

Enhancing social cohesion with cooperative bots in societies of greedy, mobile individuals

Lei Shi, Zhixue He, Chen Shen +1

Addressing collective issues in social development requires a high level of social cohesion, characterized by cooperation and close social connections. However, social cohesion is…

q-bio.PE2024★ 2 cited

Mixed strategy approach destabilizes cooperation in finite populations with clustering coefficient

Zehua Si, Zhixue He, Chen Shen +1

Evolutionary game theory, encompassing discrete, continuous, and mixed strategies, is pivotal for understanding cooperation dynamics. Discrete strategies involve deterministic acti…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 6 cited

Stability of pairwise social dilemma games: destructive agents, constructive agents, and their joint effects

Khadija Khatun, Chen Shen, Lei Shi +1

Destructive agents, who opt out of the game and indiscriminately harm others, paradoxically foster cooperation, representing an intriguing variant of the voluntary participation st…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 10 cited

Impact of Committed Minorities: Unveiling Critical Mass of Cooperation in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Game

Zhixue He, Chen Shen, Lei Shi +1

The critical mass effect is a prevailing topic in the study of complex systems. Recent research has shown that a minority of zealots can effectively drive widespread cooperation in…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 19 cited

How Committed Individuals Shape Social Dynamics: A Survey on Coordination Games and Social Dilemma Games

Chen Shen, Hao Guo, Shuyue Hu +3

Committed individuals, who features steadfast dedication to advocating strong beliefs, values, and preferences, have garnered much attention across statistical physics, social scie…

q-bio.PE2023★ 8 cited

Exit options sustain altruistic punishment and decrease the second-order free-riders, but it is not a panacea

Chen Shen, Zhao Song, Lei Shi +2

Altruistic punishment, where individuals incur personal costs to punish others who have harmed third parties, presents an evolutionary conundrum as it undermines individual fitness…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 20 cited

Simple bots breed social punishment in humans

Chen Shen, Zhixue He, Lei Shi +2

Costly punishment has been suggested as a key mechanism for stabilizing cooperation in one-shot games. However, recent studies have revealed that the effectiveness of costly punish…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 6 cited

Robust and Efficient Network Reconstruction in Complex System via Adaptive Signal Lasso

Lei Shi, Jie Hu, Libin Jin +3

Network reconstruction is important to the understanding and control of collective dynamics in complex systems. Most real networks exhibit sparsely connected properties, and the co…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Regularized Bilinear Discriminant Analysis for Multivariate Time Series Data

Jianhua Zhao, Haiye Liang, Shulan Li +2

In recent years, the methods on matrix-based or bilinear discriminant analysis (BLDA) have received much attention. Despite their advantages, it has been reported that the traditio…

stat.ML2021★ 7 cited

Robust factored principal component analysis for matrix-valued outlier accommodation and detection

Xuan Ma, Jianhua Zhao, Yue Wang

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a popular dimension reduction technique for vector data. Factored PCA (FPCA) is a probabilistic extension of PCA for matrix data, which can su…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 649 cited

Social physics

Marko Jusup, Petter Holme, Kiyoshi Kanazawa +12

Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their traditio…

astro-ph.HE2021

The pulsar gamma-ray emission from the high-resolution dissipative magnetospheres

Gang Cao, Xiongbang Yang

The pulsar light curves and energy spectra are explored in dissipative pulsar magnetospheres with the Aristotelian electrodynamics (AE), where particle acceleration is fully balanc…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 7 cited

Exploring the energy-dependent radiation properties in dissipative magnetospheres with Fermi pulsars

Xiongbang Yang, Gang Cao

The equatorial current sheets outside the light cylinder(LC) are thought as the promising site of the high energy emission based on the results of the recent numerical simulations.…

eess.SY2020★ 8 cited

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Tropical Air Free-Cooled Data Center Control

Duc Van Le, Rongrong Wang, Yingbo Liu +3

Air free-cooled data centers (DCs) have not existed in the tropical zone due to the unique challenges of year-round high ambient temperature and relative humidity (RH). The increas…

q-bio.PE2020★ 58 cited

Exit rights open complex pathways to cooperation

Chen Shen, Marko Jusup, Lei Shi +3

We study the evolutionary dynamics of the prisoner's dilemma game in which cooperators and defectors interact with another actor type called exiters. Rather than being exploited by…