arXiv AI

AI Contagion in Social Networks

arXiv:2606. 15206v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study how artificial intelligence (AI) interacts with social communication networks to shape the stability of collective knowledge.

arXiv AI
Sep 12

Role differentiation as ignition of a collective information engine: Structuration in Agent Populations

The paper proposes a new framework for collective information engines that rely on role differentiation rather than consensus. By modeling anti‑coordination games, agents infer roles from noisy social signals tied to persistent identities, and role‑following actions reinforce those identities, creating a feedback loop that can drive collective order. The authors show that when a social loop gain—determined by identity persistence, cognitive capacity, channel fidelity, and schema strength—exceeds one, roles emerge in a bifurcation cascade whose type is selected by resource‑driven replicator dynamics, offering a mechanistic basis for distributional AGI takeoff and a control lever for platform design.

By Maximilian Puelma Touzel
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Towards Graph Foundation Models for Dynamics in Complex Networked Systems: Lessons from Super-Spreader Identification in Multilayer Networks

arXiv:2606. 08306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Network dynamics - including spreading, influence maximisation, and epidemic modelling - remain largely confined to the transductive paradigm, where models are trained on a single network and cannot be reused on unseen graphs without retraining.

By Micha{\l} Czuba, Mateusz Stolarski, Adam Pir\'og, Piotr Bielak, Piotr Br\'odka
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 23

Behavior is Not Enough: A Mechanism-Based Evaluation of Social Norm Emergence in LLM Societies

The paper argues that observing only behavior is insufficient to identify social norms in large language model (LLM) societies. It introduces an evaluation framework that also measures agents’ reported empirical and normative expectations, revealing that expectation elicitation boosts cooperation, social learning stabilizes behavior, and social selection identifies cooperators but offers limited reinforcement. The study shows that similar cooperative outcomes can stem from distinct underlying mechanisms and that expectations can be used to attribute each mechanism’s contribution.

By Rasika Muralidharan, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An
arXiv AI
Aug 26

Discovering Adaptive Transmission Programs for Collective Innovation

The paper presents a method for designing state‑aware transmission protocols that guide how information and resources are shared among agents in a collective discovery task. Using LLM‑guided evolutionary search, the authors evolve protocols that outperform existing baselines by up to 37%, and show that the advantage stems from conditioning on content and agent states rather than just network topology. The evolved protocols also generalize across different domains and agent populations, indicating that such protocols can be discovered in silico and may inform AI‑assisted coordination systems for human collective intelligence.

By C\'edric Colas, J\'er\'emy Perez, Eleni Nisioti, Akhilesh Mocherla, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Cl\'ement Moulin-Frier, Maxime Derex