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A matching in a two-sided market often incurs an externality: a matched resource may become unavailable to the other side of the market, at least for a while. This is especially an issue in online platforms involving human experts as the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Virag Shah , Lennart Gulikers , Laurent Massoulie , Milan Vojnovic

Crowd work platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk and Prolific are vital for research, yet workers' growing use of generative AI tools poses challenges. Researchers face compromised data validity as AI responses replace authentic human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Amanda Chan , Catherine Di , Joseph Rupertus , Gary Smith , Varun Nagaraj Rao , Manoel Horta Ribeiro , Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Coordinating agents to complete a set of tasks with intercoupled temporal and resource constraints is computationally challenging, yet human domain experts can solve these difficult scheduling problems using paradigms learned through years…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Matthew Gombolay , Reed Jensen , Jessica Stigile , Toni Golen , Neel Shah , Sung-Hyun Son , Julie Shah

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

General-purpose crowdsourcing platforms are increasingly being harnessed for creative work. The platforms' potential for creative work is clearly identified, but the workers' perspectives on such work have not been extensively documented.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jonas Oppenlaender , Kristy Milland , Aku Visuri , Panos Ipeirotis , Simo Hosio

Accurately and efficiently crowdsourcing complex, open-ended tasks can be difficult, as crowd participants tend to favor short, repetitive "microtasks". We study the crowdsourcing of large networks where the crowd provides the network…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Daniel Berenberg , James P. Bagrow

The recent boom in crowdsourcing has opened up a new avenue for utilizing human intelligence in the realm of data analysis. This innovative approach provides a powerful means for connecting online workers to tasks that cannot effectively be…

Applications · Statistics 2024-02-29 Chen Jason Zhang , Yunrui Liu , Pengcheng Zeng , Ting Wu , Lei Chen , Pan Hui , Fei Hao

We introduce the problem of Task Assignment and Sequencing (TAS), which adds the timeline perspective to expert crowdsourcing optimization. Expert crowdsourcing involves macrotasks, like document writing, product design, or web development,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Heinz Schmitz , Ioanna Lykourentzou

Craft practices rely on evolving archives of skill and knowledge developed through generations of craftspeople experimenting with designs, materials, and techniques. Better documentation of these practices enables the sharing of knowledge…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ritik Batra , Lydia Kim , Ilan Mandel , Amritansh Kwatra , Jane L. E , Steven J. Jackson , Thijs Roumen

Crowdsourcing is a valuable approach for tracking objects in videos in a more scalable manner than possible with domain experts. However, existing frameworks do not produce high quality results with non-expert crowdworkers, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Samreen Anjum , Chi Lin , Danna Gurari

We raise and define a new crowdsourcing scenario, open set crowdsourcing, where we only know the general theme of an unfamiliar crowdsourcing project, and we don't know its label space, that is, the set of possible labels. This is still a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Guangyang Han , Guoxian Yu , Lei Liu , Lizhen Cui , Carlotta Domeniconi , Xiangliang Zhang

Popular crowdsourcing techniques mostly focus on evaluating workers' labeling quality before adjusting their weights during label aggregation. Recently, another cohort of models regard crowdsourced annotations as incomplete tensors and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Ching-Yun Ko , Rui Lin , Shu Li , Ngai Wong

In recent years, imitation learning from large-scale human demonstrations has emerged as a promising paradigm for training robot policies. However, the burden of collecting large quantities of human demonstrations is significant in terms of…

Crowdsourcing has become a popular method for collecting labeled training data. However, in many practical scenarios traditional labeling can be difficult for crowdworkers (for example, if the data is high-dimensional or unintuitive, or the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-14 Tom Hope , Dafna Shahaf

Crowdsourcing information constitutes an important aspect of human-in-the-loop learning for researchers across multiple disciplines such as AI, HCI, and social science. While using crowdsourced data for subjective tasks is not new,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Ramya Srinivasan , Ajay Chander

Crowdsourcing has gained popularity as a tool to harness human brain power to help solve problems that are difficult for computers. Previous work in crowdsourcing often assumes that workers complete crowdwork independently. In this paper,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Chien-Ju Ho , Ming Yin

Realtime crowdsourcing research has demonstrated that it is possible to recruit paid crowds within seconds by managing a small, fast-reacting worker pool. Realtime crowds enable crowd-powered systems that respond at interactive speeds: for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Michael S. Bernstein , David R. Karger , Robert C. Miller , Joel Brandt

Quality control plays a critical role in crowdsourcing. The state-of-the-art work is not suitable for large-scale crowdsourcing applications, since it is a long haul for the requestor to verify task quality or select professional workers in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Kun Li , Shengling Wang , Xiuzhen Cheng , Qin Hu

In this paper, we propose a Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework for task arrangement, which is a critical problem for the success of crowdsourcing platforms. Previous works conduct the personalized recommendation of tasks to workers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Caihua Shan , Nikos Mamoulis , Reynold Cheng , Guoliang Li , Xiang Li , Yuqiu Qian

The software engineering research community faces a systemic crisis: peer review is failing under growing submissions, misaligned incentives, and reviewer fatigue. Community surveys reveal that researchers perceive the process as "broken."…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Ahmad Farooq , Kamran Iqbal