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As the use of crowdsourcing increases, it is important to think about performance optimization. For this purpose, it is possible to think about each worker as a HPU(Human Processing Unit), and to draw inspiration from performance…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Chen Cao , Zheng Liu , Lei Chen , H. V. Jagadish

Outlier detection is a crucial part of robust evaluation for crowdsourceable assessment of Quality of Experience (QoE) and has attracted much attention in recent years. In this paper, we propose some simple and fast algorithms for outlier…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-25 Qianqian Xu , Ming Yan , Chendi Huang , Jiechao Xiong , Qingming Huang , Yuan Yao

Aggregating responses from crowd workers is a fundamental task in the process of crowdsourcing. In cases where a few experts are overwhelmed by a large number of non-experts, most answer aggregation algorithms such as the majority voting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Yasushi Kawase , Yuko Kuroki , Atsushi Miyauchi

Recently, there has been a burst in the number of research projects on human computation via crowdsourcing. Multiple choice (or labeling) questions could be referred to as a common type of problem which is solved by this approach. As an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Jafar Muhammadi , Hamid Reza Rabiee , Abbas Hosseini

Humans quite frequently interact with conversational agents. The rapid advancement in generative language modeling through neural networks has helped advance the creation of intelligent conversational agents. Researchers typically evaluate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Sashank Santhanam , Alireza Karduni , Samira Shaikh

Crowd simulation is a research area widely used in diverse fields, including gaming and security, assessing virtual agent movements through metrics like time to reach their goals, speed, trajectories, and densities. This is relevant for…

Accurately estimating the number of objects in a single image is a challenging yet meaningful task and has been applied in many applications such as urban planning and public safety. In the various object counting tasks, crowd counting is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Guangshuai Gao , Junyu Gao , Qingjie Liu , Qi Wang , Yunhong Wang

Crowdsourcing is an effective method to collect data by employing distributed human population. Researchers introduce appropriate reward mechanisms to incentivize agents to report accurately. In particular, this paper focuses on Peer-Based…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Samhita Kanaparthy , Sankarshan Damle , Sujit Gujar

We describe methods to predict a crowd worker's accuracy on new tasks based on his accuracy on past tasks. Such prediction provides a foundation for identifying the best workers to route work to in order to maximize accuracy on the new…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Hyun Joon Jung , Matthew Lease

We consider the problem of optimal budget allocation for crowdsourcing problems, allocating users to tasks to maximize our final confidence in the crowdsourced answers. Such an optimized worker assignment method allows us to boost the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Angela Zhou , Irineo Cabreros , Karan Singh

Inferring the correct answers to binary tasks based on multiple noisy answers in an unsupervised manner has emerged as the canonical question for micro-task crowdsourcing or more generally aggregating opinions. In graphon estimation, one is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-29 Devavrat Shah , Christina Lee Yu

Consider unsupervised clustering of objects drawn from a discrete set, through the use of human intelligence available in crowdsourcing platforms. This paper defines and studies the problem of universal clustering using responses of crowd…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Ravi Kiran Raman , Lav Varshney

In this paper, we present a novel sequential paradigm for classification in crowdsourcing systems. Considering that workers are unreliable and they perform the tests with errors, we study the construction of decision trees so as to minimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Baocheng Geng , Qunwei Li , Pramod K. Varshney

In mobile crowdsensing, finding the best match between tasks and users is crucial to ensure both the quality and effectiveness of a crowdsensing system. Existing works usually assume a centralized task assignment by the crowdsensing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Shuo Yang , Zhenzhe Zheng , Shaojie Tang , Fan Wu , Guihai Chen

This paper reports on the challenges and lessons we learned while running controlled experiments in crowdsourcing platforms. Crowdsourcing is becoming an attractive technique to engage a diverse and large pool of subjects in experimental…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Jorge Ramírez , Marcos Baez , Fabio Casati , Luca Cernuzzi , Boualem Benatallah

We consider unsupervised crowdsourcing performance based on the model wherein the responses of end-users are essentially rated according to how their responses correlate with the majority of other responses to the same subtasks/questions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-10-11 G. Kesidis , A. Kurve

Data fusion has played an important role in data mining because high-quality data is required in a lot of applications. As on-line data may be out-of-date and errors in the data may propagate with copying and referring between sources, it…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Yunfan Chen , Lei Chen , Chen Jason Zhang

How can we better understand the broad, diverse, shifting, and invisible crowd workforce, so that we can better support it? We present findings from online observations and analysis of publicly available postings from a community forum of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Caifan Du , Matthew Lease

Scholars have increasingly investigated "crowdsourcing" as an alternative to expert-based judgment or purely data-driven approaches to predicting the future. Under certain conditions, scholars have found that crowdsourcing can outperform…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-12-12 Daniel Martin Katz , Michael James Bommarito , Josh Blackman

Automated decision systems increasingly rely on human oversight to ensure accuracy in uncertain cases. This paper presents a practical framework for optimizing such human-in-the-loop classification systems using a double-threshold policy.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Goran Muric , Steven Minton