Minimizing Polarization and Disagreement in the Friedkin-Johnsen Model with Unknown Innate Opinions

🎉 This paper has been accepted at IJCAI 2025.

If you use this work, please cite:

@article{cinus2025minimizing,
  title={Minimizing Polarization and Disagreement in the Friedkin-Johnsen Model with Unknown Innate Opinions},
  author={Cinus, Federico and Miyauchi, Atsushi and Kuroki, Yuko and Bonchi, Francesco},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.16076},
  year={2025}
}

🔁 Reproducing the Experiments

• To run the full grid of experiments, execute the script:

  cd scripts/
  bash grid_experiments.sh

• Jupyter notebooks are organized based on the tables and figures they reproduce from the paper.

• Before running experiments, download the data from the following link:

  Download Data

  Place the downloaded data in the main (root) folder of the repository.

🧪 Environment Setup

Create and activate the conda environment based on config/environment.yml.