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An experimental study of the influence of anonymous information on social media users
Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Brendan Cross, John Hulton +3
Increasingly, people use social media for their day-to-day interactions and as a source of information, even though much of this information is practically anonymous. This raises t…
Hierarchical community detection benchmark for heterogeneous inter-community connectivity
Brendan Cross, Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Here, we introduce a new tool for community detection, a generator of networks, which uses parameters to control the structure of created networks. Typically, network scientists de…
Limits of Large Language Models in Debating Humans
James Flamino, Mohammed Shahid Modi, Boleslaw K. Szymanski +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable promise in communicating with humans. Their potential use as artificial partners with humans in sociological experiments involvin…
Divide-and-rule policy in the Naming Game
Cheng Ma, Brendan Cross, Gyorgy Korniss +1
The Naming Game is a classic model for studying the emergence and evolution of language within a population. In this paper, we extend the traditional Naming Game model to encompass…
Shifting Polarization and Twitter News Influencers between two U.S. Presidential Elections
James Flamino, Alessandro Galezzi, Stuart Feldman +7
Social media are decentralized, interactive, and transformative, empowering users to produce and spread information to influence others. This has changed the dynamics of political…
Asymptotic resolution bounds of generalized modularity and multi-scale community detection
Xiaoyan Lu, Brendan Cross, Boleslaw K. Szymanski
The maximization of generalized modularity performs well on networks in which the members of all communities are statistically indistinguishable from each other. However, there is…