arXiv:2608.01183cs.AIcs.GT2026-08

研究制度干预下奖惩如何协同影响合作与社会福利。

Co-evolution of social reward and punishment under institutional interventions

论文配图:Co-evolution of social reward and punishment under institutional interventions
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  • 引入同伴奖惩与制度奖惩并行机制,分析四类策略演化。
  • 同伴惩罚最促合作,同伴奖励更提社会福利;制度奖励能双升合作与福利。
  • 直接惩罚背叛者最有效,惩罚奖惩者会破坏合作,适合政策设计参考。

我们研究在社会困境中,同伴激励与制度激励如何共同塑造合作、社会福利与执法效率。在包含无条件合作者(C)、背叛者(D)、社会惩罚者(SP)和社交奖励者(SR)的囚徒困境模型中,允许去中心化的同伴激励与中心化的制度激励同时作用,制度可对任意策略进行奖励或惩罚。在无限均质群体中,分析四策略复制动态;在结构化群体中,使用方格网格上的代理模拟研究空间效应与网络互惠。通过均衡状态与演化流评估无限均质群体,通过合作水平与社会福利(总群体收益减去制度成本)评估结构化群体。结果表明:同伴惩罚最促进合作,同伴奖励更利于社会福利;制度奖励同伴激励策略显著提升合作与福利,而补贴无条件合作者影响甚微。制度惩罚下,仅直接惩罚背叛者是持续有效的政策;惩罚同伴激励策略会瓦解去中心化激励,降低合作并损害社会福利,说明最大化合作未必最优整体社会利益。研究为制度设计提供了平衡合作与福利的准则。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We investigate how peer and institutional incentives jointly shape the evolution of cooperation, social welfare, and enforcement efficiency in social dilemmas. In a Prisoners Dilemma with four strategies, unconditional cooperators (C), defectors (D), social punishers (SP), and social rewarders (SR), we allow decentralised peer incentives and centralised institutional incentives to act simultaneously, with the institution able to reward or punish any subset of strategies. In infinite well-mixed populations, we analyse the resulting four-strategy replicator dynamics, and in structured populations we use agent-based simulations on square lattices to study spatial effects and network reciprocity. Intervention schemes are evaluated by equilibrium states and evolutionary flow for infinite well-mixed populations, by cooperation levels and social welfare for structured populations, defined as aggregate population payoff net of institutional cost. We find that peer punishment most strongly promotes cooperation, whereas peer reward is more beneficial for social welfare. Institutionally rewarding peer incentive strategies substantially improves both cooperation and welfare, while subsidising unconditional cooperators has little impact. Under institutional punishment, directly penalising defectors is the only consistently effective policy; punishing peer incentive strategies dismantles decentralised incentives, reduces cooperation, and harms social welfare, showing that maximising cooperation does not necessarily optimise overall societal benefit. Our findings provide design principles for institutions seeking to balance cooperation promotion with welfare maximisation.

社会博弈制度设计合作演化

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