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Consensus ranking is a technique used to derive a single ranking that best represents the preferences of multiple individuals or systems. It aims to aggregate different rankings into one that minimizes overall disagreement or distance from…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Daniele Franch , Enrico Zardini , Enrico Blanzieri , Davide Pastorello

In peer selection agents must choose a subset of themselves for an award or a prize. As agents are self-interested, we want to design algorithms that are impartial, so that an individual agent cannot affect their own chance of being…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Nicholas Mattei , Paolo Turrini , Stanislav Zhydkov

We formulate the problem of eliciting agents' preferences with the goal of finding a Kemeny ranking as a Dueling Bandits problem. Here the bandits' arms correspond to alternatives that need to be ranked and the feedback corresponds to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Anne-Marie George , Christos Dimitrakakis

In this technical note, we introduce and analyze AWNN: an adaptively weighted nearest neighbor method for performing matrix completion. Nearest neighbor (NN) methods are widely used in missing data problems across multiple disciplines such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-15 Tathagata Sadhukhan , Manit Paul , Raaz Dwivedi

We consider multi-agent systems where agents' preferences are aggregated via sequential majority voting: each decision is taken by performing a sequence of pairwise comparisons where each comparison is a weighted majority vote among the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-04-18 Maria Pini , Francesca Rossi , Brent Venable , Toby Walsh

Incomplete preferences are likely to arise in real-world preference aggregation scenarios. This paper deals with determining whether an incomplete preference profile is single-peaked. This is valuable information since many intractable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Zack Fitzsimmons , Martin Lackner

Aggregating multiple input rankings into a consensus ranking is essential in various fields such as social choice theory, hiring, college admissions, web search, and databases. A major challenge is that the optimal consensus ranking might…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Diptarka Chakraborty , Himika Das , Sanjana Dey , Alvin Hong Yao Yan

In this paper we consider the collaborative ranking setting: a pool of users each provides a small number of pairwise preferences between $d$ possible items; from these we need to predict preferences of the users for items they have not yet…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-17 Dohyung Park , Joe Neeman , Jin Zhang , Sujay Sanghavi , Inderjit S. Dhillon

Neighbor-based collaborative ranking (NCR) techniques follow three consecutive steps to recommend items to each target user: first they calculate the similarities among users, then they estimate concordance of pairwise preferences to the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Bita Shams , Saman Haratizadeh

Motivated by online platforms such as job markets, we study an agent choosing from a list of candidates, each with a hidden quality that determines match value. The agent observes only a noisy ranking of the candidates plus a binary signal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Kate Donahue , Nicole Immorlica , Brendan Lucier

To guarantee all agents are matched in general, the classic Deferred Acceptance algorithm needs complete preference lists. In practice, preference lists are short, yet stable matching still works well. This raises two questions: $\bullet$…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ishan Agarwal , Richard Cole

Ranking and comparing items is crucial for collecting information about preferences in many areas, from marketing to politics. The Mallows rank model is among the most successful approaches to analyse rank data, but its computational…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-28 Valeria Vitelli , Øystein Sørensen , Marta Crispino , Arnoldo Frigessi , Elja Arjas

The Stable Roommates problem involves matching a set of agents into pairs based on the agents' strict ordinal preference lists. The matching must be stable, meaning that no two agents strictly prefer each other to their assigned partners. A…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Michael McKay , David Manlove

The objective of the knowledge base completion problem is to infer missing information from existing facts in a knowledge base. Prior work has demonstrated the effectiveness of path-ranking based methods, which solve the problem by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Weiyu Liu , Angel Daruna , Zsolt Kira , Sonia Chernova

This paper addresses the challenges of aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values via preference learning (PL), focusing on incomplete and corrupted data in preference datasets. We propose a novel method for robustly and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Son The Nguyen , Niranjan Uma Naresh , Theja Tulabandhula

Given a set of people and a set of events they attend, we address the problem of measuring connectedness or tie strength between each pair of persons given that attendance at mutual events gives an implicit social network between people. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-12-14 Mangesh Gupte , Tina Eliassi-Rad

House Allocations concern with matchings involving one-sided preferences, where houses serve as a proxy encoding valuable indivisible resources (e.g. organs, course seats, subsidized public housing units) to be allocated among the agents.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hadi Hosseini , Sanjukta Roy , Aditi Sethia

A method is given for quantitatively rating the social acceptance of different options which are the matter of a complete preferential vote. Completeness means that every voter expresses a comparison (a preference or a tie) about each pair…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-09 Rosa Camps , Xavier Mora , Laia Saumell

Trustworthiness in model predictions is crucial for safety-critical applications in the real world. However, deep neural networks often suffer from the issues of uncertainty estimation, such as miscalibration. In this study, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Wataru Hashimoto , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Taro Watanabe

User preference learning is generally a hard problem. Individual preferences are typically unknown even to users themselves, while the space of choices is infinite. Here we study user preference learning from information-theoretic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Tanya Ignatenko , Kirill Kondrashov , Marco Cox , Bert de Vries