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Anonymous leadership and stochastic resonance in collectives of self-propelled robots
Manuel Dizenhaus, Franco De Simone, German A. Patterson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12580 ht…

Anonymous leadership and stochastic resonance in collectives of self-propelled robots
We investigate the influence of an anonymous leader on a collective of self-propelled robots using Kilobot experiments and numerical simulations. A single leader alternated deterministically between clockwise and counterclockwise motion, while the other robots followed a stochastic majority rule. Although the leader does not change global order, it induces correlations with the collective response that peak at intermediate perturbation levels, resembling stochastic resonance. Simulations confir…

Might be true.
https://maktoobmedia.com/world/if-you-stop-the-flotilla-well-stop-classes-student-collectives-across-europe-warn/

The Computational Foundations of Collective Intelligence
Charlie Pilgrim, Joe Morford, Elizabeth Warren, M\'elisande Aellen, Christopher Krupenye, Richard P Mann, Dora Biro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07999

The Computational Foundations of Collective Intelligence
Why do collectives outperform individuals when solving some problems? Fundamentally, collectives have greater computational resources with more sensory information, more memory, more processing capacity, and more ways to act. While greater resources present opportunities, there are also challenges in coordination and cooperation inherent in collectives with distributed, modular structures. Despite these challenges, we show how collective resource advantages lead directly to well-known forms of …

Crosslisted article(s) found for cond-mat.other. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.other/new
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- Anonymous leadership and stochastic resonance in collectives of self-propelled robots
Manuel Dizenhaus, Franco De Simone, German A. Patterson

Algorithmic Collective Action with Multiple Collectives
Claudio Battiloro, Pietro Greiner, Bret Nestor, Oumaima Amezgar, Francesca Dominici
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19149 http…

Algorithmic Collective Action with Multiple Collectives
As learning systems increasingly influence everyday decisions, user-side steering via Algorithmic Collective Action (ACA)-coordinated changes to shared data-offers a complement to regulator-side policy and firm-side model design. Although real-world actions have been traditionally decentralized and fragmented into multiple collectives despite sharing overarching objectives-with each collective differing in size, strategy, and actionable goals, most of the ACA literature focused on single collec…

💸 Agency for college athlete payment deals agrees to loosen third-party restrictions
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/31/agency-for-college-athlete-payment-deals-agrees-to-loosen-third-party-restrictio…

How many more is different?
Jacob Calvert, Andr\'ea W. Richa, Dana Randall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06011 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06011

How many more is different?
From the formation of ice in small clusters of water molecules to the mass raids of army ant colonies, the emergent behavior of collectives depends critically on their size. At the same time, common wisdom holds that such behaviors are robust to the loss of individuals. This tension points to the need for a more systematic study of how number influences collective behavior. We initiate this study by focusing on collective behaviors that change abruptly at certain critical numbers of individuals…

found this "platform for mixes, podcasts, live recordings and releases by independent musicians, sound artists and collectives." :rosy_maple_moth:
#experimental

»We call on other anarchist collectives to show solidarity with anarchists who are fighting here and now against the regimes of Putin and Lukashenko with weapons or stones in their hands. Resistance to the state is not possible without solidarity, critical thinking, and dialogue on complex political issues.« Statement des Anarchist Black Cross Belarus und anderen Gruppen.
https://abc-belarus.org/en/2025/11/06/on-silencing-voices-from-eastern-europe-at-anarchist-events-in-eu/

Emergent Isotropic-Nematic Transition in 3D Semiflexible Active Polymers
Twan Hooijschuur, Ehsan Irani, Antoine Deblais, Sara Jabbari-Farouji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21599 ht…

Emergent Isotropic-Nematic Transition in 3D Semiflexible Active Polymers
Active semiflexible filament collectives, ranging from motor-driven cytoskeletal filaments to slender organisms such as cyanobacteria and worm aggregates, abound in nature, yet how activity and flexibility jointly govern their organization, especially Isotropic-nematic (I-N) transition, remains poorly understood. Using large-scale Brownian dynamics simulations of 3D active semiflexible polymers with varying flexibility degrees, we show that tangential active forces systematically shift the I-N …

Noisy active matter
Atanu Chatterjee, Tuhin Chakrabortty, Saad Bhamla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16031 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16031

Noisy active matter
Noise threads every scale of the natural world. Once dismissed as mere background hiss, it is now recognized as both a currency of information and a source of order in systems driven far from equilibrium. From nanometer-scale motor proteins to meter-scale bird flocks, active collectives harness noise to break symmetry, explore decision landscapes, and poise themselves at the cusp where sensitivity and robustness coexist. We review the physics that underpins this paradox: how energy-consuming fe…