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This paper argues for recognizing an emerging paradigm of causal learning by wisdom of the crowd. Recent developments in government, industry, and research point to the rise of decentralized and crowd-based approaches within causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ryan Feng Lin , Yuantao Wei , Huiling Liao , Xiaoning Qian , Shuai Huang

In this paper, we introduce the concept of collective learning (CL) which exploits the notion of collective intelligence in the field of distributed semi-supervised learning. The proposed framework draws inspiration from the learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Francesco Farina

People's collectively shared beliefs can have significant social implications, including on democratic processes and policies. Unfortunately, as people interact with peers to form and update their beliefs, various cognitive and social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Mohammad Ratul Mahjabin , Raiyan Abdul Baten

Collective intelligence is a fundamental trait shared by several species of living organisms. It has allowed them to thrive in the diverse environmental conditions that exist on our planet. From simple organisations in an ant colony to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Anuj Mahajan , Mikayel Samvelyan , Tarun Gupta , Benjamin Ellis , Mingfei Sun , Tim Rocktäschel , Shimon Whiteson

We expect that democracy enables us to utilize collective intelligence such that our collective decisions build and enhance social welfare, and such that we accept their distributive and normative consequences. Collective decisions are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-06 Jan Lorenz , Martin Neumann

Deriving governing equations from empirical observations is a longstanding challenge in science. Although artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated substantial capabilities in function approximation, the discovery of explainable and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Gyoung S. Na , Chanyoung Park

Whenever humans use tools human performance is enhanced. Cognitive systems are a new kind of tool continually increasing in cognitive capability and are now performing high level cognitive tasks previously thought to be explicitly human.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Ron Fulbright

Inspired by e-participation systems, in this paper we propose a new model to represent human debates and methods to obtain collective conclusions from them. This model overcomes drawbacks of existing approaches by allowing users to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Jordi Ganzer , Natalia Criado , Maite Lopez-Sanchez , Simon Parsons , Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar

Many models of learning in teams assume that team members can share solutions or learn concurrently. However, these assumptions break down in multidisciplinary teams where team members often complete distinct, interrelated pieces of larger…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-16 John Meluso , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne

An essential task of groups is to provide efficient solutions for the complex problems they face. Indeed, considerable efforts have been devoted to the question of collective decision-making related to problems involving a single dominant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-05 Anna Zafeiris , Zsombor Koman , Enys Mones , Tamás Vicsek

Despite significant achievements and current interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence, the quest for a theory of intelligence, allowing general and efficient problem solving, has done little progress. This work tries to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Abel Torres Montoya

Crowd algorithms often assume workers are inexperienced and thus fail to adapt as workers in the crowd learn a task. These assumptions fundamentally limit the types of tasks that systems based on such algorithms can handle. This paper…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-20 Walter S. Lasecki , Samuel C. White , Kyle I. Murray , Jeffrey P. Bigham

One of the most striking features of human cognition is the capacity to plan. Two aspects of human planning stand out: its efficiency and flexibility. Efficiency is especially impressive because plans must often be made in complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Mark K. Ho , David Abel , Carlos G. Correa , Michael L. Littman , Jonathan D. Cohen , Thomas L. Griffiths

How can many people (who may disagree) come together to answer a question or make a decision? "Collective response systems" are a type of generative collective intelligence (CI) facilitation process meant to address this challenge. They…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Aviv Ovadya

Social animals have to make collective decisions on a daily basis. In most instances, these decisions are taken by consensus, when the group does what the majority of individuals want. Individuals have to base these decisions on the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-08-06 David Lusseau

Collective intelligence is the ability of a group to perform more effectively than any individual alone. Diversity among group members is a key condition for the emergence of collective intelligence, but maintaining diversity is challenging…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Richard P. Mann , Dirk Helbing

In the collaborative clustering framework, the hope is that by combining several clustering solutions, each one with its own bias and imperfections, one will get a better overall solution. The goal is that each local computation, quite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yohan Foucade , Younès Bennani

As platforms increasingly rely on learning algorithms, collectives may form and seek ways to influence these platforms to align with their own interests. This can be achieved by coordinated submission of altered data. To evaluate the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-27 Etienne Gauthier , Francis Bach , Michael I. Jordan

Collective intelligence refers to the ability of a group to achieve outcomes beyond what any individual member can accomplish alone. As large language model agents scale to populations of millions, a key question arises: Does collective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Xirui Li , Ming Li , Yunze Xiao , Ryan Wong , Dianqi Li , Timothy Baldwin , Tianyi Zhou

Large language models have achieved remarkable capabilities across domains, yet mechanisms underlying sophisticated reasoning remain elusive. Recent reasoning models outperform comparable instruction-tuned models on complex cognitive tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Junsol Kim , Shiyang Lai , Nino Scherrer , Blaise Agüera y Arcas , James Evans