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CrowDC: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Paired Comparisons in Crowdsourcing

Human-Computer Interaction 2023-02-24 v1 Social and Information Networks

Abstract

Ranking a set of samples based on subjectivity, such as the experience quality of streaming video or the happiness of images, has been a typical crowdsourcing task. Numerous studies have employed paired comparison analysis to solve challenges since it reduces the workload for participants by allowing them to select a single solution. Nonetheless, to thoroughly compare all target combinations, the number of tasks increases quadratically. This paper presents ``CrowDC'', a divide-and-conquer algorithm for paired comparisons. Simulation results show that when ranking more than 100 items, CrowDC can reduce 40-50% in the number of tasks while maintaining 90-95% accuracy compared to the baseline approach.

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@article{arxiv.2302.11722,
  title  = {CrowDC: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Paired Comparisons in Crowdsourcing},
  author = {Ming-Hung Wang and Chia-Yuan Zhang and Jia-Ru Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.11722},
  year   = {2023}
}
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