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Machine Learning competitions such as the Netflix Prize have proven reasonably successful as a method of "crowdsourcing" prediction tasks. But these competitions have a number of weaknesses, particularly in the incentive structure they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-11-14 Jacob Abernethy , Rafael M. Frongillo

We consider the problem of ranking $n$ experts according to their abilities, based on the correctness of their answers to $d$ questions. This is modeled by the so-called crowd-sourcing model, where the answer of expert $i$ on question $k$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Alexandra Carpentier , Nicolas Verzelen

Crowdsourcing is beginning to be used for policymaking. The wisdom of crowds [Surowiecki 2005], and crowdsourcing [Brabham 2008], are seen as new avenues that can shape all kinds of policy, from transportation policy [Nash 2009] to urban…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-02-15 J. Prpic , A. Taeihagh , J. Melton

We consider a crowdsourcing data acquisition scenario, such as federated learning, where a Center collects data points from a set of rational Agents, with the aim of training a model. For linear regression models, we show how a payment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Adam Richardson , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Boi Faltings

The problem of "approximating the crowd" is that of estimating the crowd's majority opinion by querying only a subset of it. Algorithms that approximate the crowd can intelligently stretch a limited budget for a crowdsourcing task. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Seyda Ertekin , Haym Hirsh , Cynthia Rudin

Evaluating the truthfulness of online content is critical for combating misinformation. This study examines the efficiency and effectiveness of crowdsourced truthfulness assessments through a comparative analysis of two approaches: one…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Kevin Roitero , Dustin Wright , Michael Soprano , Isabelle Augenstein , Stefano Mizzaro

Crowdsourcing technologies rely on groups of people to input information that may be critical for decision-making. This work examines obfuscation in the context of reporting technologies. We show that widespread use of reporting platforms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Benjamin Laufer , Niko A. Grupen

Suppose a decision maker wants to predict weather tomorrow by eliciting and aggregating information from crowd. How can the decision maker incentivize the crowds to report their information truthfully? Many truthful peer prediction…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Qishen Han , Sikai Ruan , Yuqing Kong , Ao Liu , Farhad Mohsin , Lirong Xia

Studies related to crowds of pedestrians, both those of theoretical nature and application oriented ones, have generally focused on either the analysis or the synthesis of the phenomena related to the interplay between individual…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Stefania Bandini , Andrea Gorrini , Giuseppe Vizzari

In this paper we introduce the idea of estimating local topology in wireless networks by means of crowdsourced user reports. In this approach each user periodically reports to the serving basestation information about the set of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Alessandro Checco , Carlo Lancia , Douglas J. Leith

Systematic literature reviews (SLRs) are one of the most common and useful form of scientific research and publication. Tens of thousands of SLRs are published each year, and this rate is growing across all fields of science. Performing an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Evgeny Krivosheev , Fabio Casati , Boualem Benatallah

Entity resolution is central to data integration and data cleaning. Algorithmic approaches have been improving in quality, but remain far from perfect. Crowdsourcing platforms offer a more accurate but expensive (and slow) way to bring…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Jiannan Wang , Tim Kraska , Michael J. Franklin , Jianhua Feng

Crowdsourcing has been successfully employed in the past as an effective and cheap way to execute classification tasks and has therefore attracted the attention of the research community. However, we still lack a theoretical understanding…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Edoardo Manino , Long Tran-Thanh , Nicholas R. Jennings

Challenges around collecting and processing quality data have hampered progress in data-driven dialogue models. Previous approaches are moving away from costly, resource-intensive lab settings, where collection is slow but where the data is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-08 José Lopes , Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia , Helen Hastie

The crowdsourcing consists in the externalisation of tasks to a crowd of people remunerated to execute this ones. The crowd, usually diversified, can include users without qualification and/or motivation for the tasks. In this paper we will…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Constance Thierry , Jean-Christophe Dubois , Yolande Le Gall , Arnaud Martin

Collective intelligence, which aggregates the shared information from large crowds, is often negatively impacted by unreliable information sources with the low quality data. This becomes a barrier to the effective use of collective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-10-04 Guo-Jun Qi , Charu Aggarwal , Pierre Moulin , Thomas Huang

Pilot studies are an essential cornerstone of the design of crowdsourcing campaigns, yet they are often only mentioned in passing in the scholarly literature. A lack of details surrounding pilot studies in crowdsourcing research hinders the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Jonas Oppenlaender , Tahir Abbas , Ujwal Gadiraju

Crowd work platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk and Prolific are vital for research, yet workers' growing use of generative AI tools poses challenges. Researchers face compromised data validity as AI responses replace authentic human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Amanda Chan , Catherine Di , Joseph Rupertus , Gary Smith , Varun Nagaraj Rao , Manoel Horta Ribeiro , Andrés Monroy-Hernández

The exponential growth of scientific knowledge has made the automated generation of scientific hypotheses that combine novelty, feasibility, and research value a core challenge. Existing methods based on large language models fail to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Shiyang Duan , Yuan Tian , Qi Bing , Xiaowei Shao

Modern, state-of-the-art deep learning approaches yield human like performance in numerous object detection and classification tasks. The foundation for their success is the availability of training datasets of substantially high quantity,…