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physics.soc-ph2026

Learning to cooperate in a changing world: How caring about the future promotes cooperation across scales

Yuxin Geng, Xingru Chen, Xin Wang +4

In social dilemmas, individuals need to forgo short-term temptations to achieve synergistic collective outcomes through cooperation. Previous work has examined mechanisms through w…

physics.soc-ph2026

Control of Harmful Information Spreading on Adaptive Higher-Order Networks via Group Dissolution

Longzhao Liu, Zhihao Han, Xingru Chen +4

Curbing harmful information contagion remains a critical challenge, motivating platform-level interventions such as group dissolution to sever transmission chains. However, in prac…

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

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-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-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…

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-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-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-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-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★ 11 cited

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★ 26 cited

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-ph2023★ 19 cited

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-ph2023★ 2 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 2 cited

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…

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-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-ph2020★ 4 cited

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

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…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 13 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 7 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 29 cited

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…