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We study the problem of collaborative machine learning markets where multiple parties can achieve improved performance on their machine learning tasks by combining their training data. We discuss desired properties for these machine…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Olga Ohrimenko , Shruti Tople , Sebastian Tschiatschek

The growing need for labeled training data has made crowdsourcing an important part of machine learning. The quality of crowdsourced labels is, however, adversely affected by three factors: (1) the workers are not experts; (2) the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Nihar B. Shah , Dengyong Zhou , Yuval Peres

Ranking is fundamental to many areas, such as search engine optimization, human feedback for language models, as well as peer grading. Crowdsourcing, which is often used for these tasks, requires proper incentivization to ensure accurate…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Kiriaki Frangias , Andrew Lin , Ellen Vitercik , Manolis Zampetakis

Crowdsourcing has emerged as an effective means for performing a number of machine learning tasks such as annotation and labelling of images and other data sets. In most early settings of crowdsourcing, the task involved classification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Desmond Cai , Duc Thien Nguyen , Shiau Hong Lim , Laura Wynter

The problem of "approximating the crowd" is that of estimating the crowd's majority opinion by querying only a subset of it. Algorithms that approximate the crowd can intelligently stretch a limited budget for a crowdsourcing task. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Seyda Ertekin , Haym Hirsh , Cynthia Rudin

Crowdsourcing is an online outsourcing mode which can solve the current machine learning algorithm's urge need for massive labeled data. Requester posts tasks on crowdsourcing platforms, which employ online workers over the Internet to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Guangyang Han , Sufang Li , Runmin Wang , Chunming Wu

Generating models from large data sets -- and determining which subsets of data to mine -- is becoming increasingly automated. However choosing what data to collect in the first place requires human intuition or experience, usually supplied…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Josh C. Bongard , Paul D. H. Hines , Dylan Conger , Peter Hurd , Zhenyu Lu

Crowdsourcing has become an important tool to collect data for various artificial intelligence applications and auction can be an effective way to allocate work and determine reward in a crowdsourcing platform. In this paper, we focus on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Timothy Shin Heng Mak , Albert Y. S. Lam

Crowdsourcing systems aggregate decisions of many people to help users quickly identify high-quality options, such as the best answers to questions or interesting news stories. A long-standing issue in crowdsourcing is how option quality…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Keith Burghardt , Tad Hogg , Raissa M. D'Souza , Kristina Lerman , Marton Posfai

We consider the problem of cost-optimal utilization of a crowdsourcing platform for binary, unsupervised classification of a collection of items, given a prescribed error threshold. Workers on the crowdsourcing platform are assumed to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yashvardhan Didwania , Jayakrishnan Nair , N. Hemachandra

Prediction markets show considerable promise for developing flexible mechanisms for machine learning. Here, machine learning markets for multivariate systems are defined, and a utility-based framework is established for their analysis. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Amos Storkey

Federated Learning is an emerging distributed collaborative learning paradigm used by many of applications nowadays. The effectiveness of federated learning relies on clients' collective efforts and their willingness to contribute local…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Shuyu Kong , You Li , Hai Zhou

We propose a streaming algorithm for the binary classification of data based on crowdsourcing. The algorithm learns the competence of each labeller by comparing her labels to those of other labellers on the same tasks and uses this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-24 Thomas Bonald , Richard Combes

Crowdsourcing platforms enable to propose simple human intelligence tasks to a large number of participants who realise these tasks. The workers often receive a small amount of money or the platforms include some other incentive mechanisms,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Amal Ben Rjab , Mouloud Kharoune , Zoltan Miklos , Arnaud Martin

We investigate the design of mechanisms to incentivize high quality in crowdsourcing environments with strategic agents, when entry is an endogenous, strategic choice. Modeling endogenous entry in crowdsourcing is important because there is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Arpita Ghosh , Preston McAfee

In many areas of industry and society, e.g., energy, healthcare, logistics, agents collect vast amounts of data that they deem proprietary. These data owners extract predictive information of varying quality and relevance from data…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-10-07 Aitazaz Ali Raja , Pierre Pinson , Jalal Kazempour , Sergio Grammatico

Crowdsourcing-based content moderation is a platform that hosts content moderation tasks for crowd workers to review user submissions (e.g. text, images and videos) and make decisions regarding the admissibility of the posted content, along…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Sainath Sanga , Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla

In this paper we present a mathematical model for collaborative filtering implementation in stock market predictions. In popular literature collaborative filtering, also known as Wisdom of Crowds, assumes that group has a greater knowledge…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-06-24 Marko Velic , Toni Grzinic , Ivan Padavic

Crowdsourcing can solve problems that current fully automated systems cannot. Its effectiveness depends on the reliability, accuracy, and speed of the crowd workers that drive it. These objectives are frequently at odds with one another.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Walter S. Lasecki , Christopher M. Homan , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Prediction markets are designed to elicit information from multiple agents in order to predict (obtain probabilities for) future events. A good prediction market incentivizes agents to reveal their information truthfully; such incentive…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Vincent Conitzer