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Epistemic social choice aims at unveiling a hidden ground truth given votes, which are interpreted as noisy signals about it. We consider here a simple setting where votes consist of approval ballots: each voter approves a set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Tahar Allouche , Jérôme Lang , Florian Yger

Fairness metrics are used to assess discrimination and bias in decision-making processes across various domains, including machine learning models and human decision-makers in real-world applications. This involves calculating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Manh Khoi Duong , Stefan Conrad

This paper proposes normative criteria for voting rules under uncertainty about individual preferences. The criteria emphasize the importance of responsiveness, i.e., the probability that the social outcome coincides with the realized…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-07-31 Satoshi Nakada , Shmuel Nitzan , Takashi Ui

This paper studies a risk-sensitive decision-making problem under uncertainty. It considers a decision-making process that unfolds over a fixed number of stages, in which a decision-maker chooses among multiple alternatives, some of which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Chung-Han Hsieh , Yi-Shan Wong

We examine vote delegation when preferences of agents are private information. One group of agents (delegators) does not want to participate in voting and abstains under conventional voting or can delegate its votes to the other group…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Hans Gersbach , Akaki Mamageishvili , Manvir Schneider

A committee consisting of two factions is considering a project whose distributive consequences are unknown. This uncertainty can be resolved at some unknown future time. By delaying approval, the committee can gradually learn which faction…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-11-12 Boris Ginzburg

Several rules for social choice are examined from a unifying point of view that looks at them as procedures for revising a system of degrees of belief in accordance with certain specified logical constraints. Belief is here a social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-06 Rosa Camps , Xavier Mora , Laia Saumell

Learning the preferences of a human improves the quality of the interaction with the human. The number of queries available to learn preferences maybe limited especially when interacting with a human, and so active learning is a must. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Sriram Gopalakrishnan , Utkarsh Soni

Purpose: Multiwinner voting rules typically require full knowledge of voter preferences, which becomes impractical in large-scale or attention-limited settings. This paper investigates how accurately a winning committee can be approximated…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Itay Asher Zimet , Shiri Alouf-Heffetz , Nimrod Talmon

Theoretically as well as experimentally it is investigated how people represent their knowledge in order to make decisions or to share their knowledge with others. Experiment 1 probes into the ways how people 6ather information about the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-15 Alf C. Zimmer

We consider elections where both voters and candidates can be associated with points in a metric space and voters prefer candidates that are closer to those that are farther away. It is often assumed that the optimal candidate is the one…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Grzegorz Pierczyński , Piotr Skowron

Approval-based committee (ABC) voting rules elect a fixed size subset of the candidates, a so-called committee, based on the voters' approval ballots over the candidates. While these rules have recently attracted significant attention,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Chris Dong , Patrick Lederer

We study computational aspects of three prominent voting rules that use approval ballots to elect multiple winners. These rules are satisfaction approval voting, proportional approval voting, and reweighted approval voting. We first show…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Haris Aziz , Serge Gaspers , Joachim Gudmundsson , Simon Mackenzie , Nicholas Mattei , Toby Walsh

We study a model of temporal voting where there is a fixed time horizon, and at each round the voters report their preferences over the available candidates and a single candidate is selected. Prior work has adapted popular notions of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Edith Elkind , Svetlana Obraztsova , Jannik Peters , Nicholas Teh

Our preferences depend on the circumstances in which we reveal them. We will introduce a dependency which allows us to illustrate the relation between the possibility of winning of particular candidates in a quantum election and the type of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Marcin Makowski , Edward W. Piotrowski

A variety of constructive manipulation, control, and bribery problems for approval-based multiwinner voting have been extensively studied recently. However, their destructive counterparts seem to be less explored. This paper investigates…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yongjie Yang

Citizen-focused democratic processes where participants deliberate on alternatives and then vote to make the final decision are increasingly popular today. While the computational social choice literature has extensively investigated voting…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Kanav Mehra , Nanda Kishore Sreenivas , Kate Larson

Approval-based multiwinner voting rules have recently received much attention in the Computational Social Choice literature. Such rules aggregate approval ballots and determine a winning committee of alternatives. To assess effectiveness,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Ioannis Caragiannis , Christos Kaklamanis , Nikos Karanikolas , George A. Krimpas

Though voting-based consensus algorithms in Blockchain outperform proof-based ones in energy- and transaction-efficiency, they are prone to incur wrong elections and bribery elections. The former originates from the uncertainties of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Shengling Wang , Xidi Qu , Qin Hu , Weifeng Lv

Assessing and comparing the security level of different voting systems is non-trivial as the technical means provided for and societal assumptions made about various systems differ significantly. However, trust assumptions concerning the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Kristjan Krips , Nikita Snetkov , Jelizaveta Vakarjuk , Jan Willemson