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Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Stefan Rass , Martin Pinzger

Data valuation is a foundational task in data marketplaces, where a Shapley-value attribution determines how a buyer's payment is distributed among data providers. Typically, the marketplace operator runs this attribution alone, requiring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zhaoyu Wang , Pingchuan Ma , Zhantong Xue , Yuguang Zhou , Qixin Zhang , Xiaoqin Zhang , Shuai Wang

Data valuation using Shapley value has emerged as a prevalent research domain in machine learning applications. However, it is a challenge to address the role of order in data cooperation as most research lacks such discussion. To tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Jie Liu , Peizheng Wang , Chao Wu

Shapley values underlie one of the most popular model-agnostic methods within explainable artificial intelligence. These values are designed to attribute the difference between a model's prediction and an average baseline to the different…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Tom Heskes , Evi Sijben , Ioan Gabriel Bucur , Tom Claassen

Consider two data providers that want to contribute data to a certain learning model. Recent works have shown that the value of the data of one of the providers is dependent on the similarity with the data owned by the other provider. It…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-12 René Bødker Christensen , Shashi Raj Pandey , Petar Popovski

We study the cost sharing problem for cooperative games in situations where the cost function $C$ is not available via oracle queries, but must instead be derived from data, represented as tuples $(S, C(S))$, for different subsets $S$ of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Eric Balkanski , Umar Syed , Sergei Vassilvitskii

In this work, we aim to design a data marketplace; a robust real-time matching mechanism to efficiently buy and sell training data for Machine Learning tasks. While the monetization of data and pre-trained models is an essential focus of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Anish Agarwal , Munther Dahleh , Tuhin Sarkar

Data Shapley is an important tool for data valuation, which quantifies the contribution of individual data points to machine learning models. In practice, group-level data valuation is desirable when data providers contribute data in batch.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Kiljae Lee , Ziqi Liu , Weijing Tang , Yuan Zhang

Cohort Shapley value is a model-free method of variable importance grounded in game theory that does not use any unobserved and potentially impossible feature combinations. We use it to evaluate algorithmic fairness, using the well known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Masayoshi Mase , Art B. Owen , Benjamin B. Seiler

Data valuation, especially quantifying data value in algorithmic prediction and decision-making, is a fundamental problem in data trading scenarios. The most widely used method is to define the data Shapley and approximate it by means of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-23 Mengmeng Wu , Ruoxi Jia , Changle Lin , Wei Huang , Xiangyu Chang

We consider the problem of how to determine a fair source coding rate allocation method for the lossless data compression problem in multiterminal networks, e.g, the wireless sensor network where there are a large number of sources to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Ni Ding , David Smith , Parastoo Sadeghi , Thierry Rakotoarivelo

It is evident that, currently, generative models are surpassed in quality by human professionals. However, with the advancements in Artificial Intelligence, this gap will narrow, leading to scenarios where individuals who have dedicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Alex Glinsky , Alexey Sokolsky

The Shapley value is widely used for data valuation in data markets. However, explaining the Shapley value of an owner in a data coalition is an unexplored and challenging task. To tackle this, we formulate the problem of finding the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Michelle Si , Jian Pei

Collaborative machine learning involves training high-quality models using datasets from a number of sources. To incentivize sources to share data, existing data valuation methods fairly reward each source based on its data submitted as is.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Rachael Hwee Ling Sim , Jue Fan , Xiao Tian , Xinyi Xu , Patrick Jaillet , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Data valuation is a ML field that studies the value of training instances towards a given predictive task. Although data bias is one of the main sources of downstream model unfairness, previous work in data valuation does not consider how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 José Pombal , Pedro Saleiro , Mário A. T. Figueiredo , Pedro Bizarro

Machine learning is disruptive. At the same time, machine learning can only succeed by collaboration among many parties in multiple steps naturally as pipelines in an eco-system, such as collecting data for possible machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Zicun Cong , Xuan Luo , Pei Jian , Feida Zhu , Yong Zhang

Understanding the decision-making process of machine learning models is crucial for ensuring trustworthy machine learning. Data Shapley, a landmark study on data valuation, advances this understanding by assessing the contribution of each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Huaiguang Cai

This paper proposes a novel approach to explain the predictions made by data-driven methods. Since such predictions rely heavily on the data used for training, explanations that convey information about how the training data affects the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-09 Andreas Brandsæter , Ingrid K. Glad

Personal data is an attractive source of insights for a diverse field of research and business. While our data is highly valuable, it is often privacy-sensitive. Thus, regulations like the GDPR restrict what data can be legally published,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Stefan More , Lukas Alber

Shapley-based data valuation provides a principled way to quantify the contribution of training data, but its high computational cost makes it impractical in dynamic settings where tasks and training players evolve. Existing methods treat…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xuan Yang , Hsi-Wen Chen , Ming-Syan Chen , Jian Pei