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Microtask crowdsourcing has enabled dataset advances in social science and machine learning, but existing crowdsourcing schemes are too expensive to scale up with the expanding volume of data. To scale and widen the applicability of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Ranjay Krishna , Kenji Hata , Stephanie Chen , Joshua Kravitz , David A. Shamma , Li Fei-Fei , Michael S. Bernstein

Crowd-sourcing has become a popular means of acquiring labeled data for a wide variety of tasks where humans are more accurate than computers, e.g., labeling images, matching objects, or analyzing sentiment. However, relying solely on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Barzan Mozafari , Purnamrita Sarkar , Michael J. Franklin , Michael I. Jordan , Samuel Madden

Crowdsourcing has emerged as a powerful paradigm for efficiently labeling large datasets and performing various learning tasks, by leveraging crowds of human annotators. When additional information is available about the data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Panagiotis A. Traganitis , Georgios B. Giannakis

Crowdsourcing systems have been used to accumulate massive amounts of labeled data for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing. However, because crowdsourced labeling is inherently dynamic and uncertain,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Mohammad S. Majdi , Jeffrey J. Rodriguez

Due to the noises in crowdsourced labels, label aggregation (LA) has emerged as a standard procedure to post-process crowdsourced labels. LA methods estimate true labels from crowdsourced labels by modeling worker qualities. Most existing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Yi Yang , Zhong-Qiu Zhao , Quan Bai , Qing Liu , Weihua Li

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

One of the primary catalysts fueling advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is the availability of massive, curated datasets. A commonly used technique to curate such massive datasets is crowdsourcing, where data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Shahana Ibrahim , Panagiotis A. Traganitis , Xiao Fu , Georgios B. Giannakis

Over the last few years, deep learning has revolutionized the field of machine learning by dramatically improving the state-of-the-art in various domains. However, as the size of supervised artificial neural networks grows, typically so…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-27 Filipe Rodrigues , Francisco Pereira

Labeling is onerous for crowd counting as it should annotate each individual in crowd images. Recently, several methods have been proposed for semi-supervised crowd counting to reduce the labeling efforts. Given a limited labeling budget,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Yongtuo Liu , Sucheng Ren , Liangyu Chai , Hanjie Wu , Jing Qin , Dan Xu , Shengfeng He

Modern machine learning approaches have led to performant diagnostic models for a variety of health conditions. Several machine learning approaches, such as decision trees and deep neural networks, can, in principle, approximate any…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Peter Washington

We propose a novel crowd counting approach that leverages abundantly available unlabeled crowd imagery in a learning-to-rank framework. To induce a ranking of cropped images , we use the observation that any sub-image of a crowded scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Xialei Liu , Joost van de Weijer , Andrew D. Bagdanov

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

Unravelling hidden patterns in datasets is a classical problem with many potential applications. In this paper, we present a challenge whose objective is to discover nonlinear relationships in noisy cloud of points. If a set of point…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-31 Terry Lyons , Imanol Perez Arribas

Recent studies have shown that the labels collected from crowdworkers can be discriminatory with respect to sensitive attributes such as gender and race. This raises questions about the suitability of using crowdsourced data for further…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Naman Goel , Boi Faltings

Eliciting labels from crowds is a potential way to obtain large labeled data. Despite a variety of methods developed for learning from crowds, a key challenge remains unsolved: \emph{learning from crowds without knowing the information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Peng Cao , Yilun Xu , Yuqing Kong , Yizhou Wang

Density estimation is one of the most widely used methods for crowd counting in which a deep learning model learns from head-annotated crowd images to estimate crowd density in unseen images. Typically, the learning performance of the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Muhammad Asif Khan , Hamid Menouar , Ridha Hamila

Selecting an effective training signal for machine learning tasks is difficult: expert annotations are expensive, and crowd-sourced annotations may not be reliable. Recent work has demonstrated that learning from a distribution over labels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Dustin Wright , Isabelle Augenstein

Samples with ground truth labels may not always be available in numerous domains. While learning from crowdsourcing labels has been explored, existing models can still fail in the presence of sparse, unreliable, or diverging annotations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Mani Sotoodeh , Li Xiong , Joyce C. Ho

Cognitive computing systems require human labeled data for evaluation, and often for training. The standard practice used in gathering this data minimizes disagreement between annotators, and we have found this results in data that fails to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Anca Dumitrache , Lora Aroyo , Chris Welty

Large-scale labeled dataset is the indispensable fuel that ignites the AI revolution as we see today. Most such datasets are constructed using crowdsourcing services such as Amazon Mechanical Turk which provides noisy labels from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Chong Liu , Yu-Xiang Wang