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Freelance workers must continually acquire new skills to remain competitive in online labor markets, yet they lack the organizational training, mentorship, and infrastructure available to traditional employees. Generative AI-powered tools…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Kashif Imteyaz , Isabel Lopez , Nakul Rajpal , Hunjun Shin , Saiph Savage

Knowledge and expertise in the real-world can be disjointedly owned. To solve a complex question, collaboration among experts is often called for. In this paper, we propose CollabQA, a novel QA task in which several expert agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Xiangkun Hu , Hang Yan , Qipeng Guo , Xipeng Qiu , Weinan Zhang , Zheng Zhang

We consider the problem of ranking n experts based on their performances on d tasks. We make a monotonicity assumption stating that for each pair of experts, one outperforms the other on all tasks. We consider the sequential setting where…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-06 El Mehdi Saad , Nicolas Verzelen , Alexandra Carpentier

We consider the problem of identifying a team of skilled individuals for collaboration, in the presence of a social network. Each node in the social network may be an expert in one or more skills. Edge weights specify affinity or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-02-17 Amita Gajewar , Atish Das Sarma

Machine learning (ML) models are increasingly being used in application domains that often involve working together with human experts. In this context, it can be advantageous to defer certain instances to a single human expert when they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Patrick Hemmer , Sebastian Schellhammer , Michael Vössing , Johannes Jakubik , Gerhard Satzger

In this work, we formulate the problem of team formation amidst conflicts. The goal is to assign individuals to tasks, with given capacities, taking into account individuals' task preferences and the conflicts between them. Using dependent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Iasonas Nikolaou , Evimaria Terzi

Crowdsourcing system has emerged as an effective platform for labeling data with relatively low cost by using non-expert workers. Inferring correct labels from multiple noisy answers on data, however, has been a challenging problem, since…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Doyeon Kim , Jeonghwan Lee , Hye Won Chung

Crowdsourcing systems, in which numerous tasks are electronically distributed to numerous "information piece-workers", have emerged as an effective paradigm for human-powered solving of large scale problems in domains such as image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-27 David R. Karger , Sewoong Oh , Devavrat Shah

Task allocation has been a well studied problem. In most prior problem formulations, it is assumed that each task is associated with a unique set of resource requirements. In the scope of multi-robot task allocation problem, these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Zakk Giacometti , Yu Zhang

Tackling complex team problems requires understanding each team member's skills in order to devise a task assignment maximizing the team performance. This paper proposes a novel quantitative model describing the decentralized process by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Elizabeth Y. Huang , Dario Paccagnan , Wenjun Mei , Francesco Bullo

Task allocation using a team or coalition of robots is one of the most important problems in robotics, computer science, operational research, and artificial intelligence. In recent work, research has focused on handling complex objectives…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Haris Aziz , Arindam Pal , Ali Pourmiri , Fahimeh Ramezani , Brendan Sims

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

Quality improvement methods are essential to gathering high-quality crowdsourced data, both for research and industry applications. A popular and broadly applicable method is task assignment that dynamically adjusts crowd workflow…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Danula Hettiachchi , Vassilis Kostakos , Jorge Goncalves

Fairness in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is often framed as a workload balance problem, overlooking agent expertise and the structured coordination required in real-world domains. In healthcare, equitable task allocation…

Shared training approaches, such as multi-task learning (MTL) and gradient-based meta-learning, are widely used in various machine learning applications, but they often suffer from negative transfer, leading to performance degradation in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Anshul Thakur , Yichen Huang , Soheila Molaei , Yujiang Wang , David A. Clifton

Consider a dynamic task allocation problem, where tasks are unknowingly distributed over an environment. This paper considers each task comprised of two sequential subtasks: detection and completion, where each subtask can only be carried…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Mehdi Dadvar , Saeed Moazami , Harley R. Myler , Hassan Zargarzadeh

A long line of literature has focused on the problem of selecting a team of individuals from a large pool of candidates, such that certain constraints are respected, and a given objective function is maximized. Even though extant research…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Sanaz Bahargam , Theodoros Lappas , Evimaria Terzi

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

A rising vision for AI in the open world centers on the development of systems that can complement humans for perceptual, diagnostic, and reasoning tasks. To date, systems aimed at complementing the skills of people have employed models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Bryan Wilder , Eric Horvitz , Ece Kamar

Given a random variable $O \in \mathbb{R}$ and a set of experts $E$, we describe a method for finding a subset of experts $S \subseteq E$ whose aggregated opinion best predicts the outcome of $O$. Therefore, the problem can be regarded as a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-28 MohammadAmin Fazli , Azin Ghazimatin , Jafar Habibi , Hamid Haghshenas