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We propose a quantum-inspired framework to model subjective evaluation processes using state vectors in Hilbert space. In this approach, individual preferences are represented as cognitive states polarized between 'like' and 'dislike',…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Bumned Soodchomshom

Reviews are valuable resources for customers making purchase decisions in online shopping. However, it is impractical for customers to go over the vast number of reviews and manually conclude the prominent opinions, which prompts the need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Wendi Zhou , Ameer Saadat-Yazdi , Nadin Kokciyan

Cluster analysis has attracted more and more attention in the field of machine learning and data mining. Numerous clustering algorithms have been proposed and are being developed due to diverse theories and various requirements of emerging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Jian Yu , Zongben Xu

Static benchmarks measure what AI agents can do at a fixed point in time but not how they are adopted, maintained, or experienced in deployment. We introduce AgentPulse, a continuous evaluation framework scoring 50 agents across 10 workload…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yuxuan Gao , Megan Wang , Yi Ling Yu

Ordered response scales are ubiquitous in economics, but their interpretation rests on an untested assumption: that numerical labels reflect equal psychological intervals. The contribution of this paper is to provide a systematic assessment…

General Economics · Economics 2025-09-03 Caspar Kaiser , Anthony Lepinteur

Ranking or assessing centrality in multivariate and non-Euclidean data is difficult because there is no canonical order and many depth notions become computationally fragile in high-dimensional or structured settings. We introduce a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-24 Lingfeng Lyu , Doudou Zhou

I compare several network-level measures of centrality to common measures of author reputation and influence (e.g. hindex, i10index), all taken over the data set of papers published in 2017 at major computer systems conferences and some…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Henry Blanchette

Sparsity and entropy are pillar notions of modern theories in signal processing and information theory. However, there is no clear consensus among scientists on the characterization of these notions. Previous efforts have contributed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Giancarlo Pastor , Inmaculada Mora-Jiménez , Riku Jäntti , Antonio J. Caamaño

In a close form without referring the time-dependent Hamiltonian to the total system, a consistent approach for quantum measurement is proposed based on Zurek's triple model of quantum decoherence [W.Zurek, Phys. Rev. D 24, 1516 (1981)]. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 P. Zhang , X. F. Liu , C. P. Sun

This paper develops an axiomatic framework for ranking metrics, a general class of functionals for evaluating and ordering financial or insurance positions. Unlike traditional risk-adjusted performance measures-such as the Sharpe ratio,…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-21 Asmerilda Hitaj , Elisa Mastrogiacomo , Ilaria Peri , Marcelo Righi

Classification is a machine learning method used in many practical applications: text mining, handwritten character recognition, face recognition, pattern classification, scene labeling, computer vision, natural langage processing. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Doulaye Dembélé

In this paper we consider the axiomatic characterization of information and certainty measures in a unified way. We present the general axiomatic system which captures the common properties of a large number of the measures previously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Velimir M. Ilic , Miomir S. Stankovic

Committee scoring rules form a rich class of aggregators of voters' preferences for the purpose of selecting subsets of objects with desired properties, e.g., a shortlist of candidates for an interview, a representative collective body such…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Piotr Skowron , Piotr Faliszewski , Arkadii Slinko

Influential nodes play a critical role in boosting or curbing spreading phenomena in complex networks. Numerous centrality measures have been proposed for identifying and ranking the nodes according to their importance. Classical centrality…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Stephany Rajeh , Marinette Savonnet , Eric Leclercq , Hocine Cherifi

In this paper, we propose FFCI, a framework for fine-grained summarization evaluation that comprises four elements: faithfulness (degree of factual consistency with the source), focus (precision of summary content relative to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Fajri Koto , Timothy Baldwin , Jey Han Lau

The study of IR evaluation metrics through axiomatic analysis enables a better understanding of their numerical properties. Some works have modelled the effectiveness of retrieval metrics with axioms that capture desirable properties on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Fernando Giner

In this paper we investigate some properties of equilibrium points in n-dimensional linear control systems with saturated state feedback. We provide an index formula for equilibrium points and discuss its relation to boundaries of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Xiao-Song Yang , Weisheng Huang

In this paper, we aim to solve the problems standing in the way of automatic comparative question answering. To this end, we propose an evaluation framework to assess the quality of comparative question answering summaries. We formulate 15…

In an era where accumulating data is easy and storing it inexpensive, feature selection plays a central role in helping to reduce the high-dimensionality of huge amounts of otherwise meaningless data. In this paper, we propose a graph-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Giorgio Roffo , Simone Melzi

Evaluating user-facing AI applications remains a central challenge, especially in open-ended domains such as travel planning, clinical note generation, or dialogue. The gold standard is user feedback (e.g., thumbs up/down) or behavioral…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Michael J. Ryan , Yanzhe Zhang , Amol Salunkhe , Yi Chu , Di Xu , Diyi Yang