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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

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

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 important Kemeny problem, which consists of computing median consensus rankings of an election with respect to the Kemeny voting rule, admits important applications in biology and computational social choice and was generalized recently…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Xuan Kien Phung , Sylvie Hamel

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

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's rule is one of the most studied and well-known voting schemes with various important applications in computational social choice and biology. Recently, Kemeny's rule was generalized via a set-wise approach by Gilbert et. al. This…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xuan Kien Phung , Sylvie Hamel

The Kemeny method is one of the popular tools for rank aggregation. However, computing an optimal Kemeny ranking is NP-hard. Consequently, the computational task of finding a Kemeny ranking has been studied under the lens of parameterized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Koustav De , Harshil Mittal , Palash Dey , Neeldhara Misra

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

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 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

This article is devoted to the problem of predicting the value taken by a random permutation $\Sigma$, describing the preferences of an individual over a set of numbered items $\{1,\; \ldots,\; n\}$ say, based on the observation of an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Stephan Clémençon , Anna Korba , Eric Sibony

In this article we develop a new method for summarizing a ranking distribution, \textit{i.e.} a probability distribution on the symmetric group $\mathfrak{S}_n$, beyond the classical theory of consensus and Kemeny medians. Based on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-12 Stephan Clémençon , Ekhine Irurozki

A ranking is an ordered sequence of items, in which an item with higher ranking score is more preferred than the items with lower ranking scores. In many information systems, rankings are widely used to represent the preferences over a set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Zhiwei Lin , Yi Li , Xiaolian Guo

Many applications motivate the distance measure between rankings, such as comparing top-k lists and rank aggregation for voting, and intrigue great interest to researchers. For example, for a search engine, the use of different ranking…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Jianwen Chen , Yiping Li , Ling Feng

We introduce a correlation coefficient that is designed to deal with a variety of ranking formats including those containing non-strict (i.e., with-ties) and incomplete (i.e., unknown) preferences. The correlation coefficient is designed to…

Applications · Statistics 2019-02-19 Yeawon Yoo , Adolfo R. Escobedo , J. Kyle Skolfield

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

The rank aggregation problem seeks to combine multiple rank orderings of the same set of candidates into a single consensus ordering. Such problems arise in diverse domains, including web search, employment, college admissions, and voting.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Amir Carmel , Debarati Das , Tien-Long Nguyen

Winner selection by majority, in an election between two candidates, is the only rule compatible with democratic principles. Instead, when the candidates are three or more and the voters rank candidates in order of preference, there are no…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-19 Pierluigi Contucci , Emanuele Panizzi , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi , Alina Sîrbu

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
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