Table 1 Simulation Parameters

From: Messengers: breaking echo chambers in collective opinion dynamics with homophily

Name

Description

Value

N

Number of Agents

100

A

Arena Size

2 × 2

rcomm

Communication Range

0.15

w

Walking Step Size

0.002

tf

Simulation Time Step Duration

50,000

σ

Measurement Noise

0.001

δt

Integration Interval

1

α

Self-weight on Opinion Memory

0.99

β

Decaying Factor for Gradient Descent

0.5

rλ

Random Walk scalar

0.001

pE

Probability of Switching to Messenger State

\(\exp \{-20:-2\}\)

pM

Probability of Switching to Exploiter State

\(\exp \{-20:-2\}\)