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It is known that the theory of any class of normed spaces over the reals that includes all spaces of a given dimension d > 1 is undecidable, and indeed, admits a relative interpretation of second-order arithmetic. The notion of a normed…

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Recommender systems play a critical role in enhancing user experience by providing personalized suggestions based on user preferences. Traditional approaches often rely on explicit numerical ratings or assume access to fully ranked lists of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Bahar Boroomand , James R. Wright

Many-to-many matching with contracts is studied in the framework of revealed preferences. All preferences are described by choice functions that satisfy natural conditions. Under a no-externality assumption individual preferences can be…

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In real life situations often paired comparisons involving alternatives of either full or partial profiles to mitigate cognitive burden are presented. For this situation the problem of finding optimal designs is considered in the presence…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-20 Eric Nyarko

An experimenter seeks to learn a subject's preference relation. The experimenter produces pairs of alternatives. For each pair, the subject is asked to choose. We argue that, in general, large but finite data do not give close…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2018-08-01 Christopher P. Chambers , Federico Echenique , Nicolas S. Lambert

We present a physically-inspired model and an efficient algorithm to infer hierarchical rankings of nodes in directed networks. It assigns real-valued ranks to nodes rather than simply ordinal ranks, and it formalizes the assumption that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-14 Caterina De Bacco , Daniel B. Larremore , Cristopher Moore

The classical linear ordering problem seeks a single ranking representing a given preference matrix. While suitable for homogeneous populations, it fails when observed preferences arise from several latent groups with distinct ranking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Juan A. Aledo , Concepción Domínguez , Juan de Dios Jaime-Alcántara , Mercedes Landete

The fair allocation of scarce resources is a central problem in mathematics, computer science, operations research, and economics. While much of the fair-division literature assumes that individuals have underlying cardinal preferences,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Trung Dang , Daniel Halpern , Anuran Makur , Alexandros Psomas , Japneet Singh , Paritosh Verma

The applications of personalized recommender systems are rapidly expanding: encompassing social media, online shopping, search engine results, and more. These systems offer a more efficient way to navigate the vast array of items available.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Jennifer Chien , David Danks

The paper presents a study of local search heuristics in general and variable neighborhood search in particular for the resolution of an assignment problem studied in the practical work of universities. Here, students have to be assigned to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-09-08 Martin Josef Geiger , Wolf Wenger

We study strategic candidate positioning in multidimensional spatial-voting elections. Voters and candidates are represented as points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, and each voter supports the candidate that is closest under a distance induced by an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Colin Cleveland , Bart de Keijzer , Maria Polukarov

In this paper, I propose a new framework for representing multidimensional incomplete preferences through zonotope-valued utilities, addressing the shortcomings of traditional scalar and vector-based models in decision theory. Traditional…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-21 Behrooz Moosavi Ramezanzadeh , Arie Beresteanu

Intransitivity is a critical issue in pairwise preference modeling. It refers to the intransitive pairwise preferences between a group of players or objects that potentially form a cyclic preference chain and has been long discussed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jiuding Duan , Jiyi Li , Yukino Baba , Hisashi Kashima

Optimization problems often involve vector norms, which has led to extensive research on developing algorithms that can handle objectives beyond the $\ell_p$ norms. Our work introduces the concept of submodular norms, which are a versatile…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Kalen Patton , Matteo Russo , Sahil Singla

Ordinal user-provided ratings across multiple items are frequently encountered in both scientific and commercial applications. Whilst recommender systems are known to do well on these type of data from a predictive point of view, their…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-05 Sjoerd Hermes

We study single-candidate voting embedded in a metric space, where both voters and candidates are points in the space, and the distances between voters and candidates specify the voters' preferences over candidates. In the voting, each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Xujin Chen , Minming Li , Chenhao Wang

We consider different choice procedures such as scoring rules, rules, using majority relation, value function and tournament matrix, which are used in social and multi-criteria choice problems. We focus on the study of the properties that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Sergey Shvydun

Fashion preference is a fuzzy concept that depends on customer taste, prevailing norms in fashion product/style, henceforth used interchangeably, and a customer's perception of utility or fashionability, yet fashion e-retail relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Vikram Garg , Girish Sathyanarayana , Sumit Borar , Aruna Rajan

We consider a model where a subset of candidates must be selected based on voter preferences, subject to general constraints that specify which subsets are feasible. This model generalizes committee elections with diversity constraints,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Piotr Skowron

We develop a new class of spatial voting models for binary preference data that can accommodate both monotonic and non-monotonic response functions, and are more flexible than alternative "unfolding" models previously introduced in the…

Applications · Statistics 2025-01-01 Rayleigh Lei , Abel Rodriguez