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Crowdsourcing works by distributing many small tasks to large numbers of workers, yet the true potential of crowdsourcing lies in workers doing more than performing simple tasks---they can apply their experience and creativity to provide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Thomas C. McAndrew , Elizaveta A. Guseva , James P. Bagrow

The success of software crowdsourcing depends on active and trustworthy pool of worker supply. The uncertainty of crowd workers' behaviors makes it challenging to predict workers' success and plan accordingly. In a competitive crowdsourcing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Hamid Shamszare , Razieh Saremi , Sanam Jena

In this paper, we aim to gain a better understanding into how paid microtask crowdsourcing could leverage its appeal and scaling power by using contests to boost crowd performance and engagement. We introduce our microtask-based annotation…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Oluwaseyi Feyisetan , Elena Simperl

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

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

Very recently crowdsourcing has become the de facto platform for distributing and collecting human computation for a wide range of tasks and applications such as information retrieval, natural language processing and machine learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Ittai Abraham , Omar Alonso , Vasilis Kandylas , Aleksandrs Slivkins

Crowdsourcing is an online outsourcing mode which can solve the current machine learning algorithm's urge need for massive labeled data. Requester posts tasks on crowdsourcing platforms, which employ online workers over the Internet to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Guangyang Han , Sufang Li , Runmin Wang , Chunming Wu

Recently, there has been a burst in the number of research projects on human computation via crowdsourcing. Multiple choice (or labeling) questions could be referred to as a common type of problem which is solved by this approach. As an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Jafar Muhammadi , Hamid Reza Rabiee , Abbas Hosseini

Crowdsourcing provides a practical way to obtain large amounts of labeled data at a low cost. However, the annotation quality of annotators varies considerably, which imposes new challenges in learning a high-quality model from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Zhendong Chu , Jing Ma , Hongning Wang

When we use the wisdom of the crowds, we usually rank the answers according to their popularity, especially when we cannot verify the answers. However, this can be very dangerous when the majority make systematic mistakes. A fundamental…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yuqing Kong , Yunqi Li , Yubo Zhang , Zhihuan Huang , Jinzhao Wu

Hybrid human/computer systems promise to greatly expand the usefulness of query processing by incorporating the crowd for data gathering and other tasks. Such systems raise many database system implementation questions. Perhaps most…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-13 Beth Trushkowsky , Tim Kraska , Michael J. Franklin , Purnamrita Sarkar

Crowdsourced machine learning on competition platforms such as Kaggle is a popular and often effective method for generating accurate models. Typically, teams vie for the most accurate model, as measured by overall error on a holdout set,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ira Globus-Harris , Declan Harrison , Michael Kearns , Pietro Perona , Aaron Roth

Generative query suggestion using large language models offers a powerful way to enhance conversational systems, but aligning outputs with nuanced user preferences remains a critical challenge. To address this, we introduce a multi-stage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Junhao Yin , Haolin Wang , Peng Bao , Ju Xu , Yongliang Wang

Machine learning systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, yet they remain vulnerable to bias systematic disparities that disproportionately impact specific demographic groups. Traditional bias detection methods often depend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Chirudeep Tupakula , Rittika Shamsuddin

Crowdsourcing is a favorable computing paradigm for processing computer-hard tasks by harnessing human intelligence. However, generic crowdsourcing systems may lead to privacy-leakage through the sharing of worker data. To tackle this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Xiangping Kang , Guoxian Yu , Jun Wang , Wei Guo , Carlotta Domeniconi , Jinglin Zhang

The recent success of generative AI highlights the crucial role of high-quality human feedback in building trustworthy AI systems. However, the increasing use of large language models (LLMs) by crowdsourcing workers poses a significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yichi Zhang , Jinlong Pang , Zhaowei Zhu , Yang Liu

Supervised learning, especially supervised deep learning, requires large amounts of labeled data. One approach to collect large amounts of labeled data is by using a crowdsourcing platform where numerous workers perform the annotation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Kosuke Yoshimura , Hisashi Kashima

As mobile crowdsensing techniques are steering many smart-city applications, an incentive scheme that motivates the crowd to actively participate becomes a key to the success of such city-scale applications. This paper presents a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Fang-Jing Wu , Tie Luo

Entity resolution is central to data integration and data cleaning. Algorithmic approaches have been improving in quality, but remain far from perfect. Crowdsourcing platforms offer a more accurate but expensive (and slow) way to bring…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Jiannan Wang , Tim Kraska , Michael J. Franklin , Jianhua Feng

One of the primary catalysts fueling advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is the availability of massive, curated datasets. A commonly used technique to curate such massive datasets is crowdsourcing, where data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Shahana Ibrahim , Panagiotis A. Traganitis , Xiao Fu , Georgios B. Giannakis