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In crowdsourcing markets, there are two different type jobs, i.e. homogeneous jobs and heterogeneous jobs, which need to be allocated to workers. Incentive mechanisms are essential to attract extensive user participating for achieving good…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Jiajun Sun

The growing need for labeled training data has made crowdsourcing an important part of machine learning. The quality of crowdsourced labels is, however, adversely affected by three factors: (1) the workers are not experts; (2) the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Nihar B. Shah , Dengyong Zhou , Yuval Peres

We consider the problem of conducting a survey with the goal of obtaining an unbiased estimator of some population statistic when individuals have unknown costs (drawn from a known prior) for participating in the survey. Individuals must be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-05 Aaron Roth , Grant Schoenebeck

We study a crowdsourcing problem where the platform aims to incentivize distributed workers to provide high quality and truthful solutions without the ability to verify the solutions. While most prior work assumes that the platform and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Chao Huang , Haoran Yu , Jianwei Huang , Randall A. Berry

Crowdsourcing can solve problems that current fully automated systems cannot. Its effectiveness depends on the reliability, accuracy, and speed of the crowd workers that drive it. These objectives are frequently at odds with one another.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Walter S. Lasecki , Christopher M. Homan , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Recently, a novel class of incentive mechanisms is proposed to attract extensive users to truthfully participate in crowd sensing applications with a given budget constraint. The class mechanisms also bring good service quality for the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Jiajun Sun

In decentralized cloud computing marketplaces, ensuring fair and efficient interactions among asset providers and end-users is crucial. A key concern is meeting agreed-upon service-level objectives like the service's reliability. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Henry Mont , Matthieu Bettinger , Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Anthony Simonet-Boulogne

A major challenge in obtaining evaluations of products or services on e-commerce platforms is eliciting informative responses in the absence of verifiability. This paper proposes the Square Root Agreement Rule (SRA): a simple reward…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Vijay Kamble , Nihar Shah , David Marn , Abhay Parekh , Kannan Ramachandran

Modern data marketplaces and data sharing consortia increasingly rely on incentive mechanisms to encourage agents to contribute data. However, schemes that reward agents based on the quantity of submitted data are vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Alex Clinton , Thomas Zeng , Yiding Chen , Xiaojin Zhu , Kirthevasan Kandasamy

Crowd sensing is a new paradigm which leverages the pervasive smartphones to efficiently collect and upload sensing data, enabling numerous novel applications. To achieve good service quality for a crowd sensing application, incentive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Jiajun Sun

Crowdsourcing websites (e.g. Yahoo! Answers, Amazon Mechanical Turk, and etc.) emerged in recent years that allow requesters from all around the world to post tasks and seek help from an equally global pool of workers. However, intrinsic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-11 Yu Zhang , Mihaela van der Schaar

Ranking is fundamental to many areas, such as search engine optimization, human feedback for language models, as well as peer grading. Crowdsourcing, which is often used for these tasks, requires proper incentivization to ensure accurate…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Kiriaki Frangias , Andrew Lin , Ellen Vitercik , Manolis Zampetakis

This paper outlines an incentive-driven and decentralized approach to verifying the veracity of digital content at scale. Widespread misinformation, an explosion in AI-generated content and reduced reliance on traditional news sources…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lucas Barbosa , Sam Kirshner , Rob Kopel , Eric Tze Kuan Lim , Tom Pagram

Crowdsourcing offers a practical method for ranking and scoring large amounts of items. To investigate the algorithms and incentives that can be used in crowdsourcing quality evaluations, we built CrowdGrader, a tool that lets students…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Luca de Alfaro , Michael Shavlovsky

Schema matching is a central challenge for data integration systems. Inspired by the popularity and the success of crowdsourcing platforms, we explore the use of crowdsourcing to reduce the uncertainty of schema matching. Since…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Chen Jason Zhang , Lei Chen , H. V. Jagadish , Mengchen Zhang , Yongxin Tong

Crowdsourcing platforms enable to propose simple human intelligence tasks to a large number of participants who realise these tasks. The workers often receive a small amount of money or the platforms include some other incentive mechanisms,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Amal Ben Rjab , Mouloud Kharoune , Zoltan Miklos , Arnaud Martin

Incentives are key to the success of crowdsourcing which heavily depends on the level of user participation. This paper designs an incentive mechanism to motivate a heterogeneous crowd of users to actively participate in crowdsourcing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Tie Luo , Salil S. Kanhere , Sajal K. Das , Hwee-Pink Tan

Crowd-sourcing is a cheap and popular means of creating training and evaluation datasets for machine learning, however it poses the problem of `truth inference', as individual workers cannot be wholly trusted to provide reliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Yuan Li , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Trevor Cohn

We consider a crowdsourcing data acquisition scenario, such as federated learning, where a Center collects data points from a set of rational Agents, with the aim of training a model. For linear regression models, we show how a payment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Adam Richardson , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Boi Faltings

This paper presents the first systematic investigation of the potential performance gains for crowdsourcing systems, deriving from available information at the requester about individual worker earnestness (reputation). In particular, we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Alberto Tarable , Alessandro Nordio , Emilio Leonardi , Marco Ajmone Marsan