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In multimedia crowdsourcing, the requester's quality requirements and reward decisions will affect the workers' task selection strategies and the quality of their multimedia contributions. In this paper, we present a first study on how the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Qi Shao , Man Hon Cheung , Jianwei Huang

Crowdsourcing is a process wherein an individual or an organisation utilizes the talent pool present over the Internet to accomplish their task. The existing crowdsourcing platforms and their reputation computation are centralised and hence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Gurpriya Kaur Bhatia , Shubham Gupta , Alpana Dubey , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Crowdsourcing of jobs to online freelance markets is rapidly gaining popularity. Most crowdsourcing platforms are uncontrolled and offer freedom to customers and freelancers to choose each other. This works well for unskilled jobs (e.g.,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Avhishek Chatterjee , Lav R. Varshney , Sriram Vishwanath

We study the problem of organizing a collection of objects - images, videos - into clusters, using crowdsourcing. This problem is notoriously hard for computers to do automatically, and even with crowd workers, is challenging to…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Ayush Jain , Joon Young Seo , Karan Goel , Andrew Kuznetsov , Aditya Parameswaran , Hari Sundaram

In supervised learning - for instance in image classification - modern massive datasets are commonly labeled by a crowd of workers. The obtained labels in this crowdsourcing setting are then aggregated for training, generally leveraging a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Tanguy Lefort , Benjamin Charlier , Alexis Joly , Joseph Salmon

In big data applications such as healthcare data mining, due to privacy concerns, it is necessary to collect predictions from multiple information sources for the same instance, with raw features being discarded or withheld when aggregating…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Chenwei Zhang , Sihong Xie , Yaliang Li , Jing Gao , Wei Fan , Philip S. Yu

Cognitive computing systems require human labeled data for evaluation, and often for training. The standard practice used in gathering this data minimizes disagreement between annotators, and we have found this results in data that fails to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Anca Dumitrache , Lora Aroyo , Chris Welty

Many data mining tasks cannot be completely addressed by auto- mated processes, such as sentiment analysis and image classification. Crowdsourcing is an effective way to harness the human cognitive ability to process these machine-hard…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Chengliang Chai , Ju Fan , Guoliang Li , Jiannan Wang , Yudian Zheng

Crowdsourcing offers an affordable and scalable means to collect relevance judgments for IR test collections. However, crowd assessors may show higher variance in judgment quality than trusted assessors. In this paper, we investigate how to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Mucahid Kutlu , Tyler McDonnell , Aashish Sheshadri , Tamer Elsayed , Matthew Lease

Typically crowdsourcing-based approaches to gather annotated data use inter-annotator agreement as a measure of quality. However, in many domains, there is ambiguity in the data, as well as a multitude of perspectives of the information…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Anca Dumitrache , Oana Inel , Lora Aroyo , Benjamin Timmermans , Chris Welty

Due to the unreliability of Internet workers, it's difficult to complete a crowdsourcing project satisfactorily, especially when the tasks are multiple and the budget is limited. Recently, meta learning has brought new vitality to few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Guangyang Han , Guoxian Yu , Lizhen Cui , Carlotta Domeniconi , Xiangliang Zhang

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

Crowdsensing is an emerging paradigm of ubiquitous sensing, through which a crowd of workers are recruited to perform sensing tasks collaboratively. Although it has stimulated many applications, an open fundamental problem is how to select…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Feng Li , Jichao Zhao , Dongxiao Yu , Xiuzhen Cheng , Weifeng Lv

Crowdworking is a cost-efficient solution for acquiring class labels. Since these labels are subject to noise, various approaches to learning from crowds have been proposed. Typically, these approaches are evaluated with default…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Marek Herde , Lukas Lührs , Denis Huseljic , Bernhard Sick

Machine Learning competitions such as the Netflix Prize have proven reasonably successful as a method of "crowdsourcing" prediction tasks. But these competitions have a number of weaknesses, particularly in the incentive structure they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-11-14 Jacob Abernethy , Rafael M. Frongillo

Machine learning (ML) based approaches are increasingly being used in a number of applications with societal impact. Training ML models often require vast amounts of labeled data, and crowdsourcing is a dominant paradigm for obtaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Simone Lazier , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan , Hadis Anahideh

Extensive work has argued in favour of paying crowd workers a wage that is at least equivalent to the U.S. federal minimum wage. Meanwhile, research on collecting high quality annotations suggests using a qualification that requires workers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Jonathan K. Kummerfeld

Representation learning approaches require a massive amount of discriminative training data, which is unavailable in many scenarios, such as healthcare, smart city, education, etc. In practice, people refer to crowdsourcing to get annotated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Yang Hao , Wenbiao Ding , Zitao Liu

Crowdsourcing is a common approach to rapidly annotate large volumes of data in machine learning applications. Typically, crowd workers are compensated with a flat rate based on an estimated completion time to meet a target hourly wage.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Gordon Lim , Stefan Larson , Yu Huang , Kevin Leach

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