Evidence map›Paper›PMID 38600076›Full record

ArticleNature communications2024

Dynamics of collective cooperation under personalised strategy updates.

Yao Meng, Sean P Cornelius, Yang-Yu Liu, Aming Li

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Heavy-tailed update distributions arise from information-driven self-organization in nonequilibrium learning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
    Article
  5. Promoting collective cooperation through temporal interactions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
    Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yao MengCenter for Systems and Control, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-0367-4347
Sean P CorneliusDepartment of Physics, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada.
Yang-Yu LiuChanning Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-4907
Aming LiCenter for Systems and Control, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China. amingli@pku.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4045-8721

Funding

Therapeutic Control of Aspirin-Exacerbated Respiratory DiseaseU19AI095219 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI Joshua A Boyce · 2011 to 2026
$29.1M
Genetic Epidemiology of COPDU01HL089856 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SILVERMAN, EDWIN K · 2007 to 2021
$20.7M
Multi-omic approaches to mechanisms of vitamin D, environmental influences, and the microbiome on asthmaUH3OD023268 · OD · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI LITONJUA, AUGUSTO A, WEISS, SCOTT T · 2018 to 2022
$13.5M
Prospective Study of the Gut Microbiome in AgingRF1AG067744 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI CHAN, ANDREW T · 2020 to 2020
$11.7M
Functional Redundancy of Human Microbiome and its Implication in Fecal Microbiota TransplantationR01AI141529 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI LIU, YANG-YU · 2019 to 2023
$4.5M
Long-term health consequences of birth by cesarean sectionR01HD093761 · NICHD · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI CHAVARRO, JORGE EDUARDO · 2018 to 2022
$3.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL089856NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI141529NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI095219NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG067744NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD093761NIH HHS UH3 OD023268
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Collective cooperation is essential for many social and biological systems, yet understanding how it evolves remains a challenge. Previous investigations report that the ubiquitous heterogeneous individual connections hinder cooperation by assuming individuals update strategies at identical rates. Here we develop a general framework by allowing individuals to update strategies at personalised rates, and provide the precise mathematical condition under which universal cooperation is favoured. Combining analytical and numerical calculations on synthetic and empirical networks, we find that when individuals' update rates vary inversely with their number of connections, heterogeneous connections actually outperform homogeneous ones in promoting cooperation. This surprising property undercuts the conventional wisdom that heterogeneous structure is generally antagonistic to cooperation and, further helps develop an efficient algorithm OptUpRat to optimise collective cooperation by designing individuals' update rates in any population structure. Our findings provide a unifying framework to understand the interplay between structural heterogeneity, behavioural rhythms, and cooperation.

Indexed as

Biological EvolutionCooperative BehaviorAlgorithmsGame TheoryHumans

Identifiers

PMID38600076
PMCPMC11006938

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.