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Aggregating a consensus ranking from multiple input rankings is a fundamental problem with applications in recommendation systems, search engines, job recruitment, and elections. Despite decades of research in consensus ranking aggregation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yijun Jin , Simon Klüttermann , Chiara Balestra , Emmanuel Müller

The Kemeny method is one of the popular tools for rank aggregation. However, computing an optimal Kemeny ranking is NP-hard. Consequently, the computational task of finding a Kemeny ranking has been studied under the lens of parameterized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Koustav De , Harshil Mittal , Palash Dey , Neeldhara Misra

Kemeny Consensus is a well-known rank aggregation method in social choice theory. In this method, given a set of rankings, the goal is to find a ranking $\Pi$ that minimizes the total Kendall tau distance to the input rankings. Computing a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Pallavi Jain , Anshul Thakur

In its most traditional setting, the main concern of optimization theory is the search for optimal solutions for instances of a given computational problem. A recent trend of research in artificial intelligence, called solution diversity,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Emmanuel Arrighi , Henning Fernau , Daniel Lokshtanov , Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira , Petra Wolf

The Kemeny aggregation problem consists of computing the consensus rankings of an election with respect to the well-known Kemeny-Young voting method. These consensus rankings satisfy various fundamental properties and are the geometric…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xuan Kien Phung , Sylvie Hamel

Consensus ranking is a technique used to derive a single ranking that best represents the preferences of multiple individuals or systems. It aims to aggregate different rankings into one that minimizes overall disagreement or distance from…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Daniele Franch , Enrico Zardini , Enrico Blanzieri , Davide Pastorello

The central problem in this work is to compute a ranking of a set of elements which is "closest to" a given set of input rankings of the elements. We define "closest to" in an established way as having the minimum sum of Kendall-Tau…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-08-11 Robert Bredereck

The computational study of election problems generally focuses on questions related to the winner or set of winners of an election. But social preference functions such as Kemeny rule output a full ranking of the candidates (a consensus).…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Zack Fitzsimmons , Edith Hemaspaandra

Rank aggregation is a task of combining the rankings of items from multiple users into a single ranking that best represents the users' rankings. Alabi et al. (AAAI'22) presents differentially-private (DP) polynomial-time approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Quentin Hillebrand , Pasin Manurangsi , Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn , Phanu Vajanopath

In social choice theory, (Kemeny) rank aggregation is a well-studied problem where the goal is to combine rankings from multiple voters into a single ranking on the same set of items. Since rankings can reveal preferences of voters (which a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Daniel Alabi , Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

In this paper, we advocate the use of setwise contests for aggregating a set of input rankings into an output ranking. We propose a generalization of the Kemeny rule where one minimizes the number of k-wise disagreements instead of pairwise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Hugo Gilbert , Tom Portoleau , Olivier Spanjaard

Preference rankings virtually appear in all field of science (political sciences, behavioral sciences, machine learning, decision making and so on). The well-know social choice problem consists in trying to find a reasonable procedure to…

Computation · Statistics 2015-09-04 Sonia Amodio , Antonio D'Ambrosio , Roberta Siciliano

The rank aggregation problem, which has many real-world applications, refers to the process of combining multiple input rankings into a single aggregated ranking. In dynamic settings, where new rankings arrive over time, efficiently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Morteza Alimi , Hourie Mehrabiun , Alireza Zarei

We formulate the problem of eliciting agents' preferences with the goal of finding a Kemeny ranking as a Dueling Bandits problem. Here the bandits' arms correspond to alternatives that need to be ranked and the feedback corresponds to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Anne-Marie George , Christos Dimitrakakis

Rank aggregation aims to combine the preference rankings of a number of alternatives from different voters into a single consensus ranking. As a useful model for a variety of practical applications, however, it is a computationally…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Yangming Zhou , Jin-Kao Hao , Zhen Li , Fred Glover

Proportional ranking rules aggregate approval-style preferences of agents into a collective ranking such that groups of agents with similar preferences are adequately represented. Motivated by the application of live Q&A platforms, where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Jonas Israel , Markus Brill

Rule learning approaches for knowledge graph completion are efficient, interpretable and competitive to purely neural models. The rule aggregation problem is concerned with finding one plausibility score for a candidate fact which was…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Patrick Betz , Stefan Lüdtke , Christian Meilicke , Heiner Stuckenschmidt

Nowadays, several crowdsourcing projects exploit social choice methods for computing an aggregate ranking of alternatives given individual rankings provided by workers. Motivated by such systems, we consider a setting where each worker is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Ioannis Caragiannis , Xenophon Chatzigeorgiou , George A. Krimpas , Alexandros A. Voudouris

In recent years rank aggregation has received significant attention from the machine learning community. The goal of such a problem is to combine the (partially revealed) preferences over objects of a large population into a single,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-06 Yu Lu , Sahand N. Negahban

Rank aggregation systems collect ordinal preferences from individuals to produce a global ranking that represents the social preference. Rank-breaking is a common practice to reduce the computational complexity of learning the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Ashish Khetan , Sewoong Oh
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