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Deciding which large language model (LLM) to use is a complex challenge. Pairwise ranking has emerged as a new method for evaluating human preferences for LLMs. This approach entails humans evaluating pairs of model outputs based on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Roland Daynauth , Christopher Clarke , Krisztian Flautner , Lingjia Tang , Jason Mars

Given an incomplete ratings data over a set of users and items, the preference completion problem aims to estimate a personalized total preference order over a subset of the items. In practical settings, a ranked list of top-$k$ items from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Shameem A Puthiya Parambath , Nishant Vijayakumar , Sanjay Chawla

We explore the top-$K$ rank aggregation problem. Suppose a collection of items is compared in pairs repeatedly, and we aim to recover a consistent ordering that focuses on the top-$K$ ranked items based on partially revealed preference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Minje Jang , Sunghyun Kim , Changho Suh , Sewoong Oh

Ranking objects is a simple and natural procedure for organizing data. It is often performed by assigning a quality score to each object according to its relevance to the problem at hand. Ranking is widely used for object selection, when…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Or Zuk , Liat Ein-Dor , Eytan Domany

We consider the problem of ranking a set of objects based on their performance when the measurement of said performance is subject to noise. In this scenario, the performance is measured repeatedly, resulting in a range of measurements for…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Aravind Sankaran , Lars Karlsson , Paolo Bientinesi

We focus on the problem of ranking $N$ objects starting from a set of noisy pairwise comparisons provided by a crowd of unequal workers, each worker being characterized by a specific degree of reliability, which reflects her ability to rank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Alessandro Nordio , Alberto tarable , Emilio Leonardi

A critical piece of the modern information retrieval puzzle is approximate nearest neighbor search. Its objective is to return a set of $k$ data points that are closest to a query point, with its accuracy measured by the proportion of exact…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Thomas Vecchiato , Claudio Lucchese , Franco Maria Nardini , Sebastian Bruch

We study the top-$K$ ranking problem where the goal is to recover the set of top-$K$ ranked items out of a large collection of items based on partially revealed preferences. We consider an adversarial crowdsourced setting where there are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Changho Suh , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Renbo Zhao

There are three fundamental asks from a ranking algorithm: it should scale to handle a large number of items, sort items accurately by their utility, and impose a total order on the items for logical consistency. But here's the catch-no…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Malay Haldar , Daochen Zha , Huiji Gao , Liwei He , Sanjeev Katariya

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 ranking $N$ objects starting from a set of noisy pairwise comparisons provided by a crowd of equal workers. We assume that objects are endowed with intrinsic qualities and that the probability with which an object…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Evgenia Christoforou , Alessandro Nordio , Alberto Tarable , Emilio Leonardi

In ranking problems, the goal is to learn a ranking function from labeled pairs of input points. In this paper, we consider the related comparison problem, where the label indicates which element of the pair is better, or if there is no…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-27 David Venuto , Toby Dylan Hocking , Lakjaree Sphanurattana , Masashi Sugiyama

The task of item recommendation requires ranking a large catalogue of items given a context. Item recommendation algorithms are evaluated using ranking metrics that depend on the positions of relevant items. To speed up the computation of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Steffen Rendle

Bipartite ranking is a fundamental ranking problem that learns to order relevant instances ahead of irrelevant ones. The pair-wise approach for bi-partite ranking construct a quadratic number of pairs to solve the problem, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Wei-Yuan Shen , Hsuan-Tien Lin

This technical report studies the problem of ranking from pairwise comparisons in the classical Bradley-Terry-Luce (BTL) model, with a focus on score estimation. For general graphs, we show that, with sufficiently many samples, maximum…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-17 Yanxi Chen

We study a sequential decision-making model where a set of items is repeatedly matched to the same set of agents over multiple rounds. The objective is to determine a sequence of matchings that either maximizes the utility of the least…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Eugene Lim , Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Nicholas Teh

We study a ranking and selection problem of learning from choice-based feedback with dynamic assortments. In this problem, a company sequentially displays a set of items to a population of customers and collects their choices as feedback.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Junwen Yang , Yifan Feng

Nowadays, several crowdsourcing projects exploit social choice methods for computing an aggregate ranking of alternatives given individual rankings provided by workers. Motivated by such systems, we consider a setting where each worker is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Ioannis Caragiannis , Xenophon Chatzigeorgiou , George A. Krimpas , Alexandros A. Voudouris

We explore the fundamental problem of sorting through the lens of learning-augmented algorithms, where algorithms can leverage possibly erroneous predictions to improve their efficiency. We consider two different settings: In the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Xingjian Bai , Christian Coester

In heterogeneous rank aggregation problems, users often exhibit various accuracy levels when comparing pairs of items. Thus a uniform querying strategy over users may not be optimal. To address this issue, we propose an elimination-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Yue Wu , Tao Jin , Hao Lou , Pan Xu , Farzad Farnoud , Quanquan Gu