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We propose a fully Bayesian framework for learning ground truth labels from noisy annotators. Our framework ensures scalability by factoring a generative, Bayesian soft clustering model over label distributions into the classic David and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya , Alexander G. Ororbia , Christopher M. Homan

The semantics as to which set of arguments in a given argumentation graph may be acceptable (acceptability semantics) can be characterised in a few different ways. Among them, labelling-based approach allows for concise and flexible…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Ryuta Arisaka , Takayuki Ito

Committee-selection problems arise in many contexts and applications, and there has been increasing interest within the social choice research community on identifying which properties are satisfied by different multi-winner voting rules.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Joshua Caiata , Ben Armstrong , Kate Larson

We develop a simple model of the scientific peer review process, in which authors of varying ability invest to produce papers of varying quality, and journals evaluate papers based on a noisy signal, choosing to accept or reject each paper.…

General Economics · Economics 2025-10-07 Raphael Mu

We investigate how robust approval-based multiwinner voting rules are to small perturbations in the votes. In particular, we consider the extent to which a committee can change after we add/remove/swap one approval, and we consider the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Piotr Faliszewski , Grzegorz Gawron , Bartosz Kusek

Despite extensive theoretical research on proportionality in approval-based multiwinner voting, its impact on which committees and candidates can be selected in practice remains poorly understood. We address this gap by (i) analyzing the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Niclas Boehmer , Lara Glessen , Jannik Peters

In the realm of Natural Language Processing (NLP), common approaches for handling human disagreement consist of aggregating annotators' viewpoints to establish a single ground truth. However, prior studies show that disregarding individual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Benedetta Muscato , Lucia Passaro , Gizem Gezici , Fosca Giannotti

The growing need for labeled training data has made crowdsourcing an important part of machine learning. The quality of crowdsourced labels is, however, adversely affected by three factors: (1) the workers are not experts; (2) the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Nihar B. Shah , Dengyong Zhou , Yuval Peres

Despite huge advances, LLMs still lack convenient and reliable methods to quantify the uncertainty in their responses, making them difficult to trust in high-stakes applications. One of the simplest approaches to eliciting more accurate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Aparna Nair-Kanneganti , Trevor J. Chan , Shir Goldfinger , Emily Mackay , Brian Anthony , Alison Pouch

Strong labels are a necessity for evaluation of sound event detection methods, but often scarcely available due to the high resources required by the annotation task. We present a method for estimating strong labels using crowdsourced weak…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Irene Martín-Morató , Manu Harju , Annamaria Mesaros

The efficacy of deep learning depends on large-scale data sets that have been carefully curated with reliable data acquisition and annotation processes. However, acquiring such large-scale data sets with precise annotations is very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Ragav Sachdeva , Filipe R. Cordeiro , Vasileios Belagiannis , Ian Reid , Gustavo Carneiro

This work deviates from easy-to-define class boundaries for object interactions. For the task of object interaction recognition, often captured using an egocentric view, we show that semantic ambiguities in verbs and recognising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Michael Wray , Davide Moltisanti , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas , Dima Damen

Deep neural networks can memorize corrupted labels, making data quality critical for model performance, yet real-world datasets are frequently compromised by both label noise and input noise. This paper proposes a mutual information-based…

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One of the central aspects of contextualised language models is that they should be able to distinguish the meaning of lexically ambiguous words by their contexts. In this paper we investigate the extent to which the contextualised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Janosch Haber , Massimo Poesio

Many machine learning systems today are trained on large amounts of human-annotated data. Data annotation tasks that require a high level of competency make data acquisition expensive, while the resulting labels are often subjective,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Emmanouil Antonios Platanios , Maruan Al-Shedivat , Eric Xing , Tom Mitchell

Automated fact-checking systems verify claims against evidence to predict their veracity. In real-world scenarios, the retrieved evidence may not unambiguously support or refute the claim and yield conflicting but valid interpretations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Max Glockner , Ieva Staliūnaitė , James Thorne , Gisela Vallejo , Andreas Vlachos , Iryna Gurevych

Safe artificial intelligence for perception tasks remains a major challenge, partly due to the lack of data with high-quality labels. Annotations themselves are subject to aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty, which is typically ignored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jonathan Klees , Tobias Riedlinger , Peter Stehr , Bennet Böddecker , Daniel Kondermann , Matthias Rottmann

The exponential growth of web content is a major key to the success for Recommender Systems. This paper addresses the challenge of defining noise, which is inherently related to variability in human preferences and behaviors. In classifying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Clarita Hawat , Wissam Al Jurdi , Jacques Bou Abdo , Jacques Demerjian , Abdallah Makhoul

In recent years, multi-label classification problem has become a controversial issue. In this kind of classification, each sample is associated with a set of class labels. Ensemble approaches are supervised learning algorithms in which an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Amirreza Mahdavi-Shahri , Mahboobeh Houshmand , Mahdi Yaghoobi , Mehrdad Jalali

We suggest that one individual holds multiple degrees of belief about an outcome, given the evidence. We then investigate the implications of such noisy probabilities for a buyer and a seller of binary options and find the odds agreed upon…

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