Dynamics of confident voting

Dynamics of confident voting

We introduce the confident voter model, in which each voter can be in one of two opinions and can additionally have two levels of commitment to an opinion—confident and unsure. Upon interacting with an agent of a different opinion, a confident voter becomes less committed, or unsure, but does not change opinion. However, an unsure agent changes opinion by interacting with an agent of a differen...

Manipulative voting dynamics

In AI, multi-agent decision problems are of central importance, in which independent agents aggregate their heterogeneous preference orders among all alternatives and the result of this aggregation can be a single alternative, corresponding to the groups collective decision, or a complete aggregate ranking of all the alternatives. Voting is a general method for aggregating the preferences of mu...

A Confident Majority Voting Strategy for Parallel and Modular Support Vector Machines

Support vector machines (SVMs) has been accepted as a fashionable method in machine learning community, but it cannot be easily scaled to handle large scale problems for its time and space complexity that is around quadratic in the number of training samples. In this paper, confident majority voting (CMV) is proposed to scale SVMs (CMV-SVMs). CMV-SVMs decomposes a large-scale task into many sma...

Dynamics of Strategic Three-Choice Voting

In certain parliamentary democracies, there are two major parties that move in and out of power every few elections, and a third minority party that essentially never governs. We present a simple model to account for this phenomenon, in which minority party supporters sometimes vote ideologically (for their party) and sometimes strategically (against the party they like the least). The competit...

The Campaign Dynamics of Economic Voting