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Evaluating workers is a critical aspect of any crowdsourcing system. In this paper, we devise techniques for evaluating workers by finding confidence intervals on their error rates. Unlike prior work, we focus on "conciseness"---that is,…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Manas Joglekar , Hector Garcia-Molina , Aditya Parameswaran

This paper presents a fast methodology, called ROBOUT, to identify outliers in a response variable conditional on a set of linearly related predictors, retrieved from a large granular dataset. ROBOUT is shown to be effective and…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-27 Matteo Farnè , Angelos Vouldis

Effective assessment of mobile network coverage and the precise identification of service weak spots are paramount for network operators striving to enhance user Quality of Experience (QoE). This paper presents a novel framework for mobile…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Timothy Wong , Tom Freeman , Joseph Feehily

We introduce an unsupervised approach to efficiently discover the underlying features in a data set via crowdsourcing. Our queries ask crowd members to articulate a feature common to two out of three displayed examples. In addition we also…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-02 James Y. Zou , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Adam Tauman Kalai

Most real-world IoT data analysis tasks, such as clustering and anomaly event detection, are unsupervised and highly susceptible to the presence of outliers. In addition to sporadic scattered outliers caused by factors such as faulty sensor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yiqun Zhang , Zexi Tan , Xiaopeng Luo , Yunlin Liu

In machine learning and data mining, outliers are data points that significantly differ from the dataset and often introduce irrelevant information that can induce bias in its statistics and models. Therefore, unsupervised methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Kushankur Ghosh , Murilo Coelho Naldi , Jörg Sander , Euijin Choo

The task of outlier detection is to find small groups of data objects that are exceptional when compared with rest large amount of data. Detection of such outliers is important for many applications such as fraud detection and customer…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zengyou He , Xiaofei Xu , Shengchun Deng

We propose a streaming algorithm for the binary classification of data based on crowdsourcing. The algorithm learns the competence of each labeller by comparing her labels to those of other labellers on the same tasks and uses this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-24 Thomas Bonald , Richard Combes

The task of outlier detection is to find small groups of data objects that are exceptional when compared with rest large amount of data. In [38], the problem of outlier detection in categorical data is defined as an optimization problem and…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zengyou He , Xiaofei Xu , Shengchun Deng

The increasing demand for video streaming services with high Quality of Experience (QoE) has prompted a lot of research on client-side adaptation logic approaches. However, most algorithms use the client's previous download experience and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Ran Dubin , Amit Dvir , Ofir Pele , Ofer Hadar , Itay Katz , Ori Mashiach

Real-world network applications must cope with failing nodes, malicious attacks, or, somehow, nodes facing corrupted data --- classified as outliers. One enabling application is the geographic localization of the network nodes. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Cláudia Soares , João Gomes

For video or web services, it is crucial to measure user-perceived quality of experience (QoE) at scale under various video quality or page loading delays. However, fast QoE measurements remain challenging as they must elicit subjective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Xu Zhang , Hanchen Li , Paul Schmitt , Marshini Chetty , Nick Feamster , Junchen Jiang

Clustering and outlier detection are two important tasks in data mining. Outliers frequently interfere with clustering algorithms to determine the similarity between objects, resulting in unreliable clustering results. Currently, only a few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Qi Li , Shuliang Wang

Outliers have emerged as a fundamental bottleneck in preserving accuracy for low-precision large models, particularly within Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures that are increasingly central to large-scale language modeling. Under…

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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

Outlier detection refers to the identification of rare items that are deviant from the general data distribution. Existing approaches suffer from high computational complexity, low predictive capability, and limited interpretability. As a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-04 Zheng Li , Yue Zhao , Nicola Botta , Cezar Ionescu , Xiyang Hu

Modern machine learning-based recognition approaches require large-scale datasets with large number of labelled training images. However, such datasets are inherently difficult and costly to collect and annotate. Hence there is a great and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Yanwei Fu , De-An Huang , Leonid Sigal

This paper evaluates algorithms for classification and outlier detection accuracies in temporal data. We focus on algorithms that train and classify rapidly and can be used for systems that need to incorporate new data regularly. Hence, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-03 Victoria J. Hodge , Jim Austin

Outlier detection is a fundamental data science task with applications ranging from data cleaning to network security. Given the fundamental nature of the task, this has been the subject of much research. Recently, a new class of outlier…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Jiongqian Liang , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Impulsed noise outliers are data points that differs significantly from other observations.They are generally removed from the data set through local regression or Kalman filter algorithm.However, these methods, or their generalizations,…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-02 Bertrand Cloez , Bénédicte Fontez , Eliel González García , Isabelle Sanchez