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Blocking defector invasion by focusing on the most successful partner

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Szolnoki, Attila, Chen, Xiaojie·2020·Applied Mathematics and Computation

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  • The performance of the learned interaction mechanism in promoting cooperation is attributed to its ability to help populations form homogeneous strategic clusters.

    “our findings suggest that the performance of the learned interaction mechanism in promoting cooperation is attributed to its ability to help populations form homogeneous strategic clusters.”

    From Enhancing Cooperation through Selective Interaction and Long-term Experiences in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (2024) · cites this paper as Szolnoki and Chen, 2020

    The Results (pp. 6–8) show distinct strategic domains and report that selective cooperation can prevail over defection. But the Conclusion (p. 8) attributes that success to biased weakening at domain boundaries, which blocks defector invasion—not to helping populations form homogeneous strategic clusters. The paper also does not describe its investment rule as a learned interaction mechanism. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Authors
Szolnoki, A., & Chen, X.
Affiliations
  • Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science (HU)
  • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (CN)
Corresponding author
Szolnoki, Attila
Venue
Applied Mathematics and Computation
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020-11
Volume
385
Pages
125430
ISSN
0096-3003 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3036443818
Cited by
43
References
2
Citations by year
2025: 8 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 4
FWCI
10.34
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Applied Mathematics and Computation (publishedVersion)
  • Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) (acceptedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Game Theory and Applications
Keywords
spatial public goods game, cooperation, neighbor selection, investment allocation, synergy factor, blocking mechanism, interaction topology, evolutionary dynamics

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