English
Related papers

Related papers: The Complexity of Learning Approval-Based Multiwin…

200 papers

In approval-based multiwinner voting, voters express approval preferences over a set of candidates, and the goal is to return a winning committee. This model captures a broad range of subset selection problems under preferences. Prior work…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Niclas Boehmer , Luca Kreisel , Jannik Peters

We prove axiomatic characterizations of several important multiwinner rules within the class of approval-based committee choice rules. These are voting rules that return a set of (fixed-size) committees. In particular, we provide axiomatic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Martin Lackner , Piotr Skowron

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

We study approval-based committee voting in which a target number of candidates are selected based on voters' approval preferences over candidates. In contrast to most of the work, we consider the setting where voters express uncertain…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Hariz Aziz , Venkateswara Rao Kagita , Baharak Rastegari , Mashbat Suzuki

We study the parameterized complexity of winner determination problems for three prevalent $k$-committee selection rules, namely the minimax approval voting (MAV), the proportional approval voting (PAV), and the Chamberlin-Courant's…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yongjie Yang , Jianxin Wang

Multiwinner Elections have emerged as a prominent area of research with numerous practical applications. We contribute to this area by designing parameterized approximation algorithms and also resolving an open question by Yang and Wang…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Sushmita Gupta , Pallavi Jain , Souvik Saha , Saket Saurabh , Anannya Upasana

We study the election control problem with multi-votes, where each voter can present a single vote according different views (or layers, we use "layer" to represent "view"). For example, according to the attributes of candidates, such as:…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Fengbo Wang , Aizhong Zhou , Jianliang Xu

We introduces a general linear framework that unifies the study of multi-winner voting rules and proportionality axioms, demonstrating that many prominent multi-winner voting rules-including Thiele methods, their sequential variants, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Lirong Xia

Given a set of agents with approval preferences over each other, we study the task of finding $k$ matchings fairly representing everyone's preferences. We model the problem as an approval-based multiwinner election where the set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Niclas Boehmer , Markus Brill , Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin

An important problem in computational social choice theory is the complexity of undesirable behavior among agents, such as control, manipulation, and bribery in election systems. These kinds of voting strategies are often tempting at the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-04-20 Andrew Lin

The Possible-Winner problem asks, given an election where the voters' preferences over the set of candidates is partially specified, whether a distinguished candidate can become a winner. In this work, we consider the computational…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Batya Kenig

In this paper we address the problem of electing a committee among a set of $m$ candidates and on the basis of the preferences of a set of $n$ voters. We consider the approval voting method in which each voter can approve as many candidates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Diego Ponce , Justo Puerto , Federica Ricca , Andrea Scozzari

When voter preferences are known in an incomplete (partial) manner, winner determination is commonly treated as the identification of the necessary and possible winners; these are the candidates who win in all completions or at least one…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Aviram Imber , Benny Kimelfeld

We develop a model of multiwinner elections that combines performance-based measures of the quality of the committee (such as, e.g., Borda scores of the committee members) with diversity constraints. Specifically, we assume that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Robert Bredereck , Piotr Faliszewski , Ayumi Igarashi , Martin Lackner , Piotr Skowron

In party-approval multiwinner elections the goal is to allocate the seats of a fixed-size committee to parties based on the approval ballots of the voters over the parties. In particular, each voter can approve multiple parties and each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Théo Delemazure , Tom Demeulemeester , Manuel Eberl , Jonas Israel , Patrick Lederer

Fairness in multiwinner elections, a growing line of research in computational social choice, primarily concerns the use of constraints to ensure fairness. Recent work proposed a model to find a diverse \emph{and} representative committee…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Kunal Relia

Approval-based multiwinner voting rules have recently received much attention in the Computational Social Choice literature. Such rules aggregate approval ballots and determine a winning committee of alternatives. To assess effectiveness,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Ioannis Caragiannis , Christos Kaklamanis , Nikos Karanikolas , George A. Krimpas

We define a family of runoff rules that work as follows: voters cast approval ballots over candidates; two finalists are selected; and the winner is decided by majority. With approval-type ballots, there are various ways to select the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Théo Delemazure , Jérôme Lang , Jean-François Laslier , Remzi M. Sanver

Multi-winner voting plays a crucial role in selecting representative committees based on voter preferences. Previous research has predominantly focused on single-stage voting rules, which are susceptible to manipulation during preference…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Shengjie Gong , Lingxiao Huang , Shuangping Huang , Yuyi Wang , Zhiqi Wang , Tao Xiao , Xiang Yan , Chunxue Yang

We focus on a generalization of the classic Minisum approval voting rule, introduced by Barrot and Lang (2016), and referred to as Conditional Minisum (CMS), for multi-issue elections with preferential dependencies. Under this rule, voters…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Evangelos Markakis , Georgios Papasotiropoulos