The Robust Consensus of a Noisy Deffuant-Weisbuch Model

Abstract EN

We construct a new opinion formation of the Deffuant-Weisbuch model with the interference of the outer noise, where there are finite n agents and the evolution is discrete-time.

The opinion interaction occurs by one randomly chosen pair at each time step.

The difference to the original Deffuant-Weisbuch model is that communications of any selected pairs will be affected by noises.

The aim of this paper is to study the robust consensus of this noisy Deffuant-Weisbuch model.

We first define the noise strength as the maximum noise absolute value.

We will then show that when the noise strength is less than a certain threshold, this noisy model will achieve T-robust consensus when t is sufficiently large; next we prove that the noisy model achieves robust consensus with a positive probability; finally, we demonstrate these results and provide numerical relations among the noise strength and some model parameters.