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Ranking aggregation is commonly adopted in cooperative decision-making to assist in combining multiple rankings into a single representative. To protect the actual ranking of each individual, some privacy-preserving strategies, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Baobao Song , Qiujun Lan , Yang Li , Gang Li

Rank aggregation is a task of combining the rankings of items from multiple users into a single ranking that best represents the users' rankings. Alabi et al. (AAAI'22) presents differentially-private (DP) polynomial-time approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Quentin Hillebrand , Pasin Manurangsi , Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn , Phanu Vajanopath

The potential risk of privacy leakage prevents users from sharing their honest opinions on social platforms. This paper addresses the problem of privacy preservation if the query returns the histogram of rankings. The framework of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-09-25 Shang Shang , Tiance Wang , Paul Cuff , Sanjeev Kulkarni

In various real-world scenarios, such as recommender systems and political surveys, pairwise rankings are commonly collected and utilized for rank aggregation to derive an overall ranking of items. However, preference rankings can reveal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-04 Shirong Xu , Will Wei Sun , Guang Cheng

As a method for answer aggregation in crowdsourced data management, rank aggregation aims to combine different agents' answers or preferences over the given alternatives into an aggregate ranking which agrees the most with the preferences.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Ziqi Yan , Gang Li , Jiqiang Liu

Rank aggregation is an essential approach for aggregating the preferences of multiple agents. One rule of particular interest is the Kemeny rule, which maximises the number of pairwise agreements between the final ranking and the existing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Gattaca Lv

In recent years rank aggregation has received significant attention from the machine learning community. The goal of such a problem is to combine the (partially revealed) preferences over objects of a large population into a single,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-06 Yu Lu , Sahand N. Negahban

The concept of ranking aggregation plays a central role in preference analysis, and numerous algorithms for calculating median rankings, often originating in social choice theory, have been documented in the literature, offering theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Kerrian Le Caillec , Anna Van Elst , Igor Colin , Stephan Clémençon

Given a large population, it is an intensive task to gather individual preferences over a set of alternatives and arrive at an aggregate or collective preference of the population. We show that social network underlying the population can…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Swapnil Dhamal , Rohith D. Vallam , Y. Narahari

Rank aggregation systems collect ordinal preferences from individuals to produce a global ranking that represents the social preference. Rank-breaking is a common practice to reduce the computational complexity of learning the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Ashish Khetan , Sewoong Oh

In its most traditional setting, the main concern of optimization theory is the search for optimal solutions for instances of a given computational problem. A recent trend of research in artificial intelligence, called solution diversity,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Emmanuel Arrighi , Henning Fernau , Daniel Lokshtanov , Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira , Petra Wolf

A basic problem in the design of privacy-preserving algorithms is the private maximization problem: the goal is to pick an item from a universe that (approximately) maximizes a data-dependent function, all under the constraint of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Daniel Hsu , Shuang Song

In recent years, there has been much research in Ranked Retrieval model in structured databases, especially those in web databases. With this model, a search query returns top-k tuples according to not just exact matches of selection…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Md Farhadur Rahman , Weimo Liu , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan , Nan Zhang , Gautam Das

Data privacy is a central concern in many applications involving ranking from incomplete and noisy pairwise comparisons, such as recommendation systems, educational assessments, and opinion surveys on sensitive topics. In this work, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-15 T. Tony Cai , Abhinav Chakraborty , Yichen Wang

The Kemeny method is one of the popular tools for rank aggregation. However, computing an optimal Kemeny ranking is NP-hard. Consequently, the computational task of finding a Kemeny ranking has been studied under the lens of parameterized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Koustav De , Harshil Mittal , Palash Dey , Neeldhara Misra

Aggregating a consensus ranking from multiple input rankings is a fundamental problem with applications in recommendation systems, search engines, job recruitment, and elections. Despite decades of research in consensus ranking aggregation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yijun Jin , Simon Klüttermann , Chiara Balestra , Emmanuel Müller

In rank aggregation, members of a population rank issues to decide which are collectively preferred. We focus instead on identifying divisive issues that express disagreements among the preferences of individuals. We analyse the properties…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Rachael Colley , Umberto Grandi , César Hidalgo , Mariana Macedo , Carlos Navarrete

Rank aggregation aims to combine the preference rankings of a number of alternatives from different voters into a single consensus ranking. As a useful model for a variety of practical applications, however, it is a computationally…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Yangming Zhou , Jin-Kao Hao , Zhen Li , Fred Glover

The well-studied problem of statistical rank aggregation has been applied to comparing sports teams, information retrieval, and most recently to data generated by human judgment. Such human-generated rankings may be substantially different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-11-05 Andrew Mao , Hossein Azari Soufiani , Yiling Chen , David C. Parkes

Rankings are widely collected in various real-life scenarios, leading to the leakage of personal information such as users' preferences on videos or news. To protect rankings, existing works mainly develop privacy protection on a single…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-04 Shirong Xu , Will Wei Sun , Guang Cheng
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