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Consider designing an effective crowdsourcing system for an $M$-ary classification task. Crowd workers complete simple binary microtasks whose results are aggregated to give the final result. We consider the novel scenario where workers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Qunwei Li , Aditya Vempaty , Lav R. Varshney , Pramod K. Varshney

We consider a control problem involving several agents coupled through multiple unit-demand resources. Such resources are indivisible, and each agent's consumption is modeled as a Bernoulli random variable. Controlling the number of such…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Syed Eqbal Alam , Robert Shorten , Fabian Wirth , Jia Yuan Yu

In this paper, we propose a method to control large-scale multiagent systems swarming in a ring. Specifically, we use a continuification-based approach that transforms the microscopic, agent-level description of the system dynamics into a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Gian Carlo Maffettone , Alain Boldini , Mario di Bernardo , Maurizio Porfiri

Quality improvement methods are essential to gathering high-quality crowdsourced data, both for research and industry applications. A popular and broadly applicable method is task assignment that dynamically adjusts crowd workflow…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Danula Hettiachchi , Vassilis Kostakos , Jorge Goncalves

The rise of multi-billion parameter models has sparked an intense hunger for data across deep learning. This study explores the possibility of replacing paid annotators with video game players who are rewarded with in-game currency for good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Jonathan Zhou

Crowd-sourcing is a cheap and popular means of creating training and evaluation datasets for machine learning, however it poses the problem of `truth inference', as individual workers cannot be wholly trusted to provide reliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Yuan Li , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Trevor Cohn

High-quality annotated data is a cornerstone of modern Natural Language Processing (NLP). While recent methods begin to leverage diverse annotation sources-including Large Language Models (LLMs), Small Language Models (SLMs), and human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Maosheng Qin , Renyu Zhu , Mingxuan Xia , Chenkai Chen , Zhen Zhu , Minmin Lin , Junbo Zhao , Lu Xu , Changjie Fan , Runze Wu , Haobo Wang

We consider the problem of multi-agent consensus where some agents are subject to faults/attacks and might make updates arbitrarily. The network consists of agents taking integer-valued (i.e., quantized) states under directed communication…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Seyed Mehran Dibaji , Hideaki Ishii , Roberto Tempo

Crowdsourcing is a common approach to rapidly annotate large volumes of data in machine learning applications. Typically, crowd workers are compensated with a flat rate based on an estimated completion time to meet a target hourly wage.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Gordon Lim , Stefan Larson , Yu Huang , Kevin Leach

A typical crowdsourcing software development(CSD) marketplace consists of a list of software tasks as service demands and a pool of freelancer developers as service suppliers. Highly dynamic and competitive CSD market places may result in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Razieh Saremi , Ye Yang , Gregg Vesonder , Guenther Ruhe , He Zhang

Crowdsourcing has been widely used recently as an alternative to traditional annotations that is costly and usually done by experts. However, crowdsourcing tasks are not interesting by themselves, therefore, combining tasks with game will…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Vahid Masoumi , Mostafa Salehi , Hadi Veisi , Golnoush Haddadian , Vahid Ranjbar , Mahsa Sahebdel

We present a game benchmark for testing human-swarm control algorithms and interfaces in a real-time, high-cadence scenario. Our benchmark consists of a swarm vs. swarm game in a virtual ROS environment in which the goal of the game is to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Joel Meyer , Allison Pinosky , Thomas Trzpit , Ed Colgate , Todd D. Murphey

Crowdsourcing has evolved as an organizational approach to distributed problem solving and innovation. As contests are embedded in online communities and evaluation rights are assigned to the crowd, community members face a tension: they…

General Economics · Economics 2024-04-23 Christoph Riedl , Tom Grad , Christopher Lettl

A crowdsourced stream processing system (CSP) is a system that incorporates crowdsourced tasks in the processing of a data stream. This can be seen as enabling crowdsourcing work to be applied on a sample of large-scale data at high speed,…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Muhammad Imran , Ioanna Lykourentzou , Yannick Naudet , Carlos Castillo

An important feature of a dynamic game is its monitoring structure namely, what the players effectively see from the played actions. We consider games with arbitrary monitoring structures. One of the purposes of this paper is to know to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-24 Maël Le Treust , Samson Lasaulce

Computer vision systems require large amounts of manually annotated data to properly learn challenging visual concepts. Crowdsourcing platforms offer an inexpensive method to capture human knowledge and understanding, for a vast number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Adriana Kovashka , Olga Russakovsky , Li Fei-Fei , Kristen Grauman

Crowdsourcing is widely used to create data for common natural language understanding tasks. Despite the importance of these datasets for measuring and refining model understanding of language, there has been little focus on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Nikita Nangia , Saku Sugawara , Harsh Trivedi , Alex Warstadt , Clara Vania , Samuel R. Bowman

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

Crowdsourcing can be used to determine a total order for an object set (e.g., the top-10 NBA players) based on crowd opinions. This ranking problem is often decomposed into a set of microtasks (e.g., pairwise comparisons). These microtasks…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Caihua Shan , Leong Hou U , Nikos Mamoulis , Reynold Cheng , Xiang Li

Crowdsourcing websites (e.g. Yahoo! Answers, Amazon Mechanical Turk, and etc.) emerged in recent years that allow requesters from all around the world to post tasks and seek help from an equally global pool of workers. However, intrinsic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-11 Yu Zhang , Mihaela van der Schaar