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Large-scale industrial recommenders typically use a fixed multi-stage pipeline (recall, ranking, re-ranking) and have progressed from collaborative filtering to deep and large pre-trained models. However, both multi-stage and so-called One…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jinxin Hu , Hao Deng , Lingyu Mu , Hao Zhang , Shizhun Wang , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng

Liquid democracy is a hybrid direct-representative decision making process that provides each voter with the option of either voting directly or to delegate their vote to another voter, i.e., to a representative of their choice. One of the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Gregory Butterworth , Richard Booth

In ranked-choice elections voters cast preference ballots which provide a voter's ranking of the candidates. The method of ranked-choice voting (RCV) chooses a winner by using voter preferences to simulate a series of runoff elections. Some…

General Economics · Economics 2023-06-12 Mallory Dickerson , Erin Martin , David McCune

Formal verification of multi-agent systems is hard, both theoretically and in practice. In particular, studies that use a single verification technique typically show limited efficiency, and allow to verify only toy examples. Here, we…

This paper introduces the Voting with Random Proposers (VRP) procedure to address the challenges of agenda manipulation in voting. In each round of VRP, a randomly selected proposer suggests an alternative that is voted on against the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-10-03 Hans Gersbach , Kremena Valkanova

Purpose: Multiwinner voting rules typically require full knowledge of voter preferences, which becomes impractical in large-scale or attention-limited settings. This paper investigates how accurately a winning committee can be approximated…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Itay Asher Zimet , Shiri Alouf-Heffetz , Nimrod Talmon

Tabular anomaly detection is often handled by single detectors or static ensembles, even though strong performance on tabular data typically comes from heterogeneous model families (e.g., tree ensembles, deep tabular networks, and tabular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Pinqiao Wang , Sheng Li

In this paper, we tackle the problem of innovation spreading from a modeling point of view. We consider a networked system of individuals, with a competition between two groups. We show its relation to the innovation spreading issues. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-07-07 Krzysztof Suchecki , Andrea Scharnhorst , Janusz A. Holyst

The primary focus of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has been to study interactions among a fixed number of agents embedded in an environment. However, in the real world, the number of agents is neither fixed nor known a priori.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shishir Sharma , Doina Precup , Theodore J. Perkins

Continual learning aims to enable machine learning models to continually learn from a shifting data distribution without forgetting what has already been learned. Such shifting distributions can be broken into disjoint subsets of related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Carter Blair , Ben Armstrong , Kate Larson

There are many settings in which a principal performs a task by delegating it to an agent, who searches over possible solutions and proposes one to the principal. This describes many aspects of the workflow within organizations, as well as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Jon Kleinberg , Robert Kleinberg

When estimating the relevancy between a query and a document, ranking models largely neglect the mutual information among documents. A common wisdom is that if two documents are similar in terms of the same query, they are more likely to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Shihao Zou , Zhonghua Li , Mohammad Akbari , Jun Wang , Peng Zhang

Modeling complex human behavior, such as voter decisions in national elections, is a long-standing challenge for computational social science. Traditional agent-based models (ABMs) are limited by oversimplified rules, while large-scale…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-09 Lingfeng Zhou , Yi Xu , Zhenyu Wang , Dequan Wang

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has gained significant interest in recent years, enabling sequential decision-making across multiple agents in various domains. However, most existing explanation methods focus on centralized MARL,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Kayla Boggess , Sarit Kraus , Lu Feng

This paper investigates the design of a unified search engine to serve multiple retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) agents, each with a distinct task, backbone large language model (LLM), and RAG strategy. We introduce an iterative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Alireza Salemi , Hamed Zamani

We present a novel approach to the core set/instance selection problem in machine learning. Our approach is based on recent results on (proportional) representation in approval-based multi-winner elections. In our model, instances play a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Luis Sánchez-Fernández , Jesús A. Fisteus , Rafael López-Zaragoza

While large language model (LLM) multi-agent systems achieve superior reasoning performance through iterative debate, practical deployment is limited by their high computational cost and error propagation. This paper proposes AgentArk, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yinyi Luo , Yiqiao Jin , Weichen Yu , Mengqi Zhang , Srijan Kumar , Xiaoxiao Li , Weijie Xu , Xin Chen , Jindong Wang

In the face of adverse motives, it is indispensable to achieve a consensus. Elections have been the canonical way by which modern democracy has operated since the 17th century. Nowadays, they regulate markets, provide an engine for modern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hao Xiang Li , Yash Shah , Lorenzo Giusti

Agent Based Models are very popular in a number of different areas. For example, they have been used in a range of domains ranging from modeling of tumor growth, immune systems, molecules to models of social networks, crowds and computer…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Muaz A. Niazi , Amir Hussain , Mario Kolberg

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