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The aim of this thesis is to determine classes of NP relations for which random generation and approximate counting problems admit an efficient solution. Since efficient rank implies efficient random generation, we first investigate some…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-12-15 Massimo Santini

An algorithm that outputs predictions about the state of the world will almost always be designed with the implicit or explicit goal of outputting accurate predictions (i.e., predictions that are likely to be true). In addition, the rise of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 David Kinney

The assumption that voters' preferences share some common structure is a standard way to circumvent NP-hardness results in social choice problems. While the Kemeny ranking problem is NP-hard in the general case, it is known to become easy…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Bruno Escoffier , Olivier Spanjaard , Magdaléna Tydrichová

The computational complexity of winner determination under common voting rules is a classical and fundamental topic in the field of computational social choice. Previous work has established the NP-hardness of winner determination under…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Lirong Xia , Weiqiang Zheng

This paper delves into the investigation of a distributed aggregative optimization problem within a network. In this scenario, each agent possesses its own local cost function, which relies not only on the local state variable but also on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Jiaxu Liu , Song Chen , Shengze Cai , Chao Xu , Jian Chu

We study fixed parameter algorithms for three problems: Kemeny rank aggregation, feedback arc set tournament, and betweenness tournament. For Kemeny rank aggregation we give an algorithm with runtime O*(2^O(sqrt{OPT})), where n is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-24 Marek Karpinski , Warren Schudy

Judgment aggregation problems form a class of collective decision-making problems represented in an abstract way, subsuming some well known problems such as voting. A collective decision can be reached in many ways, but a direct one-step…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Marija Slavkovik , Wojciech Jamroga

This study considers the method to derive a ranking of alternatives by aggregating the rankings submitted by several individuals who may not evaluate all of them. The collection of subsets of alternatives that individuals (can) evaluate is…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-09-18 Yasunori Okumura

In Machine Learning, a benchmark refers to an ensemble of datasets associated with one or multiple metrics together with a way to aggregate different systems performances. They are instrumental in (i) assessing the progress of new methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Pierre Colombo , Nathan Noiry , Ekhine Irurozki , Stephan Clemencon

In this paper, we consider large-scale ranking problems where one is given a set of (possibly non-redundant) pairwise comparisons and the underlying ranking explained by those comparisons is desired. We show that stochastic gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Benjamin Jarman , Lara Kassab , Deanna Needell , Alexander Sietsema

In rank aggregation, the goal is to combine multiple input rankings into a single output ranking. In this paper, we analyze rank aggregation methods, so-called social welfare functions (SWFs), with respect to strategyproofness, which…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Manuel Eberl , Patrick Lederer

Ranking algorithms are deployed widely to order a set of items in applications such as search engines, news feeds, and recommendation systems. Recent studies, however, have shown that, left unchecked, the output of ranking algorithms can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-31 L. Elisa Celis , Damian Straszak , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Kemeny's rule is one of the most studied and well-known voting schemes with various important applications in computational social choice and biology. Recently, Kemeny's rule was generalized via a set-wise approach by Gilbert et. al. This…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xuan Kien Phung , Sylvie Hamel

The important Kemeny problem, which consists of computing median consensus rankings of an election with respect to the Kemeny voting rule, admits important applications in biology and computational social choice and was generalized recently…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Xuan Kien Phung , Sylvie Hamel

The purpose of this article is to introduce a new analytical framework dedicated to measuring performance of recommender systems. The standard approach is to assess the quality of a system by means of accuracy related statistics. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-10-29 Szymon Chojnacki , Mieczysław Kłopotek

Stochastic optimization algorithms have been successfully applied in several domains to find optimal solutions. Because of the ever-growing complexity of the integrated systems, novel stochastic algorithms are being proposed, which makes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Sowmya Chandrasekaran , Thomas Bartz-Beielstein

We study the active learning problem of top-$k$ ranking from multi-wise comparisons under the popular multinomial logit model. Our goal is to identify the top-$k$ items with high probability by adaptively querying sets for comparisons and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Xi Chen , Yuanzhi Li , Jieming Mao

Our work aimed at experimentally assessing the benefits of model ensembling within the context of neural methods for passage reranking. Starting from relatively standard neural models, we use a previous technique named Fast Geometric…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Luís Borges , Bruno Martins , Jamie Callan

Complex networks have emerged as a simple yet powerful framework to represent and analyze a wide range of complex systems. The problem of ranking the nodes and the edges in complex networks is critical for a broad range of real-world…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-30 Hao Liao , Manuel Sebastian Mariani , Matus Medo , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Ming-Yang Zhou

To aggregate rankings into a social ranking, one can use scoring systems such as Plurality, Veto, and Borda. We distinguish three types of methods: ranking by score, ranking by repeatedly choosing a winner that we delete and rank at the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Niclas Boehmer , Robert Bredereck , Dominik Peters