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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 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

The central problem in this work is to compute a ranking of a set of elements which is "closest to" a given set of input rankings of the elements. We define "closest to" in an established way as having the minimum sum of Kendall-Tau…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-08-11 Robert Bredereck

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

Kemeny Consensus is a well-known rank aggregation method in social choice theory. In this method, given a set of rankings, the goal is to find a ranking $\Pi$ that minimizes the total Kendall tau distance to the input rankings. Computing a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Pallavi Jain , Anshul Thakur

Consensus ranking is a technique used to derive a single ranking that best represents the preferences of multiple individuals or systems. It aims to aggregate different rankings into one that minimizes overall disagreement or distance from…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Daniele Franch , Enrico Zardini , Enrico Blanzieri , Davide Pastorello

The Kemeny aggregation problem consists of computing the consensus rankings of an election with respect to the well-known Kemeny-Young voting method. These consensus rankings satisfy various fundamental properties and are the geometric…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xuan Kien Phung , Sylvie Hamel

The computational study of election problems generally focuses on questions related to the winner or set of winners of an election. But social preference functions such as Kemeny rule output a full ranking of the candidates (a consensus).…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Zack Fitzsimmons , Edith Hemaspaandra

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

We formulate the problem of eliciting agents' preferences with the goal of finding a Kemeny ranking as a Dueling Bandits problem. Here the bandits' arms correspond to alternatives that need to be ranked and the feedback corresponds to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Anne-Marie George , Christos Dimitrakakis

In this paper, we advocate the use of setwise contests for aggregating a set of input rankings into an output ranking. We propose a generalization of the Kemeny rule where one minimizes the number of k-wise disagreements instead of pairwise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Hugo Gilbert , Tom Portoleau , Olivier Spanjaard

In social choice theory, (Kemeny) rank aggregation is a well-studied problem where the goal is to combine rankings from multiple voters into a single ranking on the same set of items. Since rankings can reveal preferences of voters (which a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Daniel Alabi , Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

For the problem of aggregating several rankings into one ranking, Kemeny (1959) proposed two methods: the median rule which selects the ranking with the smallest total swap distance to the input rankings, and the mean rule which minimizes…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Patrick Lederer , Dominik Peters , Tomasz Wąs

The aim of the paper is to examine the computational complexity and algorithmics of enumeration, the task to output all solutions of a given problem, from the point of view of parameterized complexity. First we define formally different…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Nadia Creignou , Arne Meier , Julian-Steffen Müller , Johannes Schmidt , Heribert Vollmer

Preference rankings virtually appear in all field of science (political sciences, behavioral sciences, machine learning, decision making and so on). The well-know social choice problem consists in trying to find a reasonable procedure to…

Computation · Statistics 2015-09-04 Sonia Amodio , Antonio D'Ambrosio , Roberta Siciliano

A common problem in machine learning is to rank a set of n items based on pairwise comparisons. Here ranking refers to partitioning the items into sets of pre-specified sizes according to their scores, which includes identification of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Reinhard Heckel , Max Simchowitz , Kannan Ramchandran , Martin J. Wainwright

Ranking algorithms are deployed widely to order a set of items in applications such as search engines, news feeds, and recommendation systems. Recent studies, however, have shown that, left unchecked, the output of ranking algorithms can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-31 L. Elisa Celis , Damian Straszak , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

The Assignment problem is a fundamental and well-studied problem in the intersection of Social Choice, Computational Economics and Discrete Allocation. In the Assignment problem, a group of agents expresses preferences over a set of items,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Barak Steindl , Meirav Zehavi

Parameterized complexity theory offers a framework for a refined analysis of hard algorithmic problems. Instead of expressing the running time of an algorithm as a function of the input size only, running times are expressed with respect to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Sebastian Siebertz , Alexandre Vigny

We study the problem of enumerating answers of Conjunctive Queries ranked according to a given ranking function. Our main contribution is a novel algorithm with small preprocessing time, logarithmic delay, and non-trivial space usage during…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Shaleen Deep , Paraschos Koutris
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