3 papers
cs.CY2022
Mathematically Quantifying Non-responsiveness of the 2021 Georgia Congressional Districting Plan
Zhanzhan Zhao, Cyrus Hettle, Swati Gupta +3
To audit political district maps for partisan gerrymandering, one may determine a baseline for the expected distribution of partisan outcomes by sampling an ensemble of maps. One a…
nlin.AO2021
A Heterogeneous Schelling Model for Wealth Disparity and its Effect on Segregation
Zhanzhan Zhao, Dana Randall
The Schelling model of segregation was introduced in economics to show how micro-motives can influence macro-behavior. Agents on a lattice have two colors and try to move to a diff…
eess.SY2019
Alice's Adventures in the Markovian World
Zhanzhan Zhao, Haoran Sun
This paper proposes an algorithm Alice having no access to the physics law of the environment, which is actually linear with stochastic noise, and learns to make decisions directly…