AAAI2020

Convergence of Opinion Diffusion is PSPACE-Complete

Dmitry Chistikov, Grzegorz Lisowski, Mike Paterson, Paolo Turrini

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Abstract

We analyse opinion diffusion in social networks, where a finite set of individuals is connected in a directed graph and each simultaneously changes their opinion to that of the majority of their influencers. We study the algorithmic properties of the fixed-point behaviour of such networks, showing that the problem of establishing whether individuals converge to stable opinions is PSPACE-complete.