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View SchemaModeling Descriptive Norms in Multi-Agent Systems: An Auto-Aggregation PDE Framework with Adaptive Perception Kernels
| Authors | Chao Li, Ilia Derevitskii, Sergey Kovalchuk |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | 2601.06557vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06557 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
Abstract
This paper presents a PDE-based auto-aggregation model for simulating descriptive norm dynamics in autonomous multi-agent systems, capturing convergence and violation through non-local perception kernels and external potential fields. Extending classical transport equations, the framework represents opinion popularity as a continuous distribution, enabling direct interactions without Bayesian guessing of beliefs. Applied to a real-world COVID-19 dataset from a major medical center, the experimental results demonstrate that: when clinical guidelines serve as a top-down constraint mechanism, it effectively generates convergence of novel descriptive norms consistent with the dataset; in the bottom-up experiment, potential field guidance successfully promotes the system's reconstruction of descriptive norms aligned with the dataset through violation-and-recoupling; whereas fully autonomous interaction leads to the emergence of multi-centric normative structures independent of the dataset.
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