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Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Ekta Gupta , Kalyani , Nitin

One important tool is the optimal clustering of data into useful categories. Dividing similar objects into a smaller number of clusters is of importance in many applications. These include search engines, monitoring of academic performance,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Gavriel Yarmish , Philip Listowsky , Simon Dexter

We study optimization problems in which a linear functional is maximized over probability measures that are dominated by a given measure according to an integral stochastic order in an arbitrary dimension. We show that the following four…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-13 Frank Yang , Kai Hao Yang

We study ranked enumeration for Conjunctive Queries (CQs) where the answers are ordered by a given ranking function (e.g., an ORDER BY clause in SQL). We develop "any-k" algorithms, which, without knowing the number k of desired answers,…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Nikolaos Tziavelis , Wolfgang Gatterbauer , Mirek Riedewald

In this paper, we propose a novel ranking framework for collaborative filtering with the overall aim of learning user preferences over items by minimizing a pairwise ranking loss. We show the minimization problem involves dependent random…

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

The fundamental problem of similarity studies, in the frame of data-mining, is to examine and detect similar items in articles, papers, books, with huge sizes. In this paper, we are interested in the probabilistic, and the statistical and…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-08-18 Gane Samb Lo , Soumaila Dembele

Estimating missing judgements is a key component in many multi-criteria decision making techniques, especially in the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Inspired by the Koczkodaj inconsistency index and a widely used solution concept of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Kolos Csaba Ágoston , László Csató

Pairwise human-preference platforms such as Chatbot Arena have become central to large language model (LLM) evaluation, yet reliable task-specific ranking remains challenging. Global leaderboards mask task heterogeneity, while ranking each…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-29 Jiachun Li , David Simchi-Levi , Will Wei Sun

Given partially observed pairwise comparison data generated by the Bradley-Terry-Luce (BTL) model, we study the problem of top-$k$ ranking. That is, to optimally identify the set of top-$k$ players. We derive the minimax rate with respect…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Pinhan Chen , Chao Gao , Anderson Y. Zhang

In 2019, Anderson et al. proposed the concept of rankability, which refers to a dataset's inherent ability to be meaningfully ranked. In this article, we give an expository review of the linear ordering problem (LOP) and then use it to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Thomas R. Cameron , Sebastian Charmot , Jonad Pulaj

Conducting pairwise comparisons is a widely used approach in curating human perceptual preference data. Typically raters are instructed to make their choices according to a specific set of rules that address certain dimensions of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Hossein Talebi , Ehsan Amid , Peyman Milanfar , Manfred K. Warmuth

We consider the problem of reconstructing a rank-one matrix from a revealed subset of its entries when some of the revealed entries are corrupted with perturbations that are unknown and can be arbitrarily large. It is not known which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Qianqian Ma , Alex Olshevsky

Audio signal processing algorithms are frequently assessed through subjective listening tests in which participants directly score degraded signals on a unidimensional numerical scale. However, this approach is susceptible to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Jack Webb , Lorenzo Picinali

This paper deals with the problem of robust matrix completion -- retrieving a low-rank matrix and a sparse matrix from the compressed counterpart of their superposition. Though seemingly not an unresolved issue, we point out that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yinjian Wang

Accurate prediction of continuous properties is essential to many scientific and engineering tasks. Although deep-learning regressors excel with abundant labels, their accuracy deteriorates in data-scarce regimes. We introduce RankRefine, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Kevin Tirta Wijaya , Michael Sun , Minghao Guo , Hans-Peter Seidel , Wojciech Matusik , Vahid Babaei

We give optimal sorting algorithms in the evolving data framework, where an algorithm's input data is changing while the algorithm is executing. In this framework, instead of producing a final output, an algorithm attempts to maintain an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Juan Jose Besa , William E. Devanny , David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Timothy Johnson

We consider the problem of ranking $n$ players from partial pairwise comparison data under the Bradley-Terry-Luce model. For the first time in the literature, the minimax rate of this ranking problem is derived with respect to the Kendall's…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Pinhan Chen , Chao Gao , Anderson Y. Zhang

Many complex multi-target prediction problems that concern large target spaces are characterised by a need for efficient prediction strategies that avoid the computation of predictions for all targets explicitly. Examples of such problems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Michiel Stock , Krzysztof Dembczynski , Bernard De Baets , Willem Waegeman

Biclustering, also known as co-clustering or two-way clustering, simultaneously partitions the rows and columns of a data matrix to reveal submatrices with coherent patterns. Incorporating background knowledge into clustering to enhance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Antonio M. Sudoso