6 papers
Learning to Coordinate over Networks with Bounded Rationality
Zhewei Wang, Emrah Akyol, Marcos M. Vasconcelos
Network coordination games are widely used to model collaboration among interconnected agents, with applications across diverse domains including economics, robotics, and cyber-sec…
Multidimensional Opinion Dynamics with Confirmation Bias: A Multi-Layer Framework
M. Hossein Abedinzadeh, Emrah Akyol
We study multidimensional opinion dynamics under confirmation bias in social networks. Each agent holds a vector of correlated opinions across multiple topic layers. Peer interacti…
Semantic Rate Distortion and Posterior Design: Compute Constraints, Multimodality, and Strategic Inference
Emrah Akyol
We study strategic Gaussian semantic compression under rate and compute constraints, where an encoder and decoder optimize distinct quadratic objectives. A latent Gaussian state ge…
Distributed Learning over Noisy Communication Networks
Emrah Akyol, Marcos Vasconcelos
We study binary coordination games over graphs under log-linear learning when neighbor actions are conveyed through explicit noisy communication links. Each edge is modeled as eith…
Stability and Robustness of Time-Varying Opinion Dynamics: A Graph-Theoretic Approach
M. Hossein Abedinzadeh, Emrah Akyol
We study the stability of opinion dynamics in the time-varying Friedkin-Johnsen (TVFJ) model, which captures both persistent individual biases and adaptive social influence. We int…
On the Interplay of Privacy, Persuasion and Quantization
Anju Anand, Emrah Akyol
We develop a communication-theoretic framework for privacy-aware and resilient decision making in cyber-physical systems under misaligned objectives between the encoder and the dec…