Evolutionary dynamics of cooperation in a population with probabilistic corrupt enforcers and violators

L Liu, X Chen, A Szolnoki - Mathematical Models and Methods in …, 2019 - World Scientific
Pro-social punishment is a key driver of harmonious and stable society. However, this
institution is vulnerable to corruption since law-violators can avoid sanctioning by paying …

Seasonal payoff variations and the evolution of cooperation in social dilemmas

A Szolnoki, M Perc - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Varying environmental conditions affect relations between interacting individuals in social
dilemmas, thus affecting also the evolution of cooperation. Oftentimes these environmental …

Gradual learning supports cooperation in spatial prisoner's dilemma game

A Szolnoki, X Chen - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2020 - Elsevier
According to the standard imitation protocol, a less successful player adopts the strategy of
the more successful one faithfully for future success. This is the cornerstone of evolutionary …

Network effects in performative prediction games

X Wang, CY Yau, HT Wai - International Conference on …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper studies the multi-agent performative prediction (Multi-PP) games over multiplex
networks. We consider a distributed learning setting where agents partially cooperate on an …

Blocking defector invasion by focusing on the most successful partner

A Szolnoki, X Chen - Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2020 - Elsevier
According to the standard protocol of spatial public goods game, a cooperator player invests
not only into his own game but also into the games organized by neighboring partners. In …

Oscillatory evolution of collective behavior in evolutionary games played with reinforcement learning

SP Zhang, JQ Zhang, L Chen, XD Liu - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2020 - Springer
Large-scale cooperation underpins the evolution of ecosystems and the human society, and
the collective behaviors by self-organization of multi-agent systems are the key for …

Group-size dependent synergy in heterogeneous populations

HW Lee, C Cleveland, A Szolnoki - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
When people collaborate, they expect more in return than a simple sum of their efforts. This
observation is at the heart of the so-called public goods game, where the participants' …

Small fraction of selective cooperators can elevate general wellbeing significantly

HW Lee, C Cleveland, A Szolnoki - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2021 - Elsevier
A cooperative player invests effort into a common venture without knowing the partner's
intention in advance. But this strategy can be implemented in various ways when a player is …

How do the joint effects of aspiration and social influence promote cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma game?

C Liu, H Wang, Y Dai - Frontiers in Physics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Various mechanisms have been proposed to promote cooperation in evolutionary games,
including aspiration and social influence. However, the joint effects of aspiration and social …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of synergy and discounting on cooperation in spatial public goods games

J Quan, M Zhang, X Wang - Physics Letters A, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Hauert et al.[1] first observed the effects of discounting and synergy in social
dilemma games and systematically studied these effects on cooperation in an unstructured …