Abstract
We introduce a Voter Model variant, inspired by social evolution of musical preferences. In our model, agents have preferences over a set of songs and upon meeting update their own preferences incrementally towards those of the other agents they meet. Using the spectral gap of an associated Markov chain, we give a geometry dependent result on the asymptotic consensus time of the model.
Citation
Daniel Lanoue. "The iPod Model." Electron. J. Probab. 20 1 - 20, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1214/EJP.v20-3559
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