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A KL-LUCB Bandit Algorithm for Large-Scale Crowdsourcing
This paper focuses on best-arm identification in multi-armed bandits with bounded rewards. We develop an algorithm that is a fusion of lil-UCB and KL-LUCB, offering the best qualities of the two algorithms in one method. This is achieved by proving a...
Optimal Control of Hughes' Model for Pedestrian Flow via Local Attraction
We discuss the control of a human crowd whose dynamics is governed by a regularized version of Hughes' model, cf. Hughes: A continuum theory for the flow of pedestrians. Transportation research part B: methodological, 36 (2002). We assume that a fini...
A local version of the Hughes model for pedestrian flow
Roger Hughes proposed a macroscopic model for pedestrian dynamics, in which individuals seek to minimize their travel time but try to avoid regions of high density. One of the basic assumptions is that the overall density of the crowd is known to eve...
On the Hughes Model and Numerical Aspects
We study a crowd model proposed by R. Hughes and we describe a numerical approach to solve it. The Hughes model comprises a Fokker-Planck equation coupled with an eikonal equation with Dirichlet or Neumann data. First, we establish a priori estimates...
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CrowDEA: Multi-view Idea Prioritization with Crowds
Given a set of ideas collected from crowds with regard to an open-ended question, how can we organize and prioritize them in order to determine the preferred ones based on preference comparisons by crowd evaluators? As there are diverse latent criter...
Optimal Team Recruitment Strategies for Collaborative Mobile Crowdsourcing Systems
The wide spread of mobile devices has enabled a new paradigm of innovation called Mobile Crowdsourcing (MCS) where the concept is to allow entities, e.g., individuals or local authorities, to hire workers to help from the crowd of connected people, t...
Low Complexity Recruitment for Collaborative Mobile Crowdsourcing Using Graph Neural Netwo…
Collaborative Mobile crowdsourcing (CMCS) allows entities, e.g., local authorities or individuals, to hire a team of workers from the crowd of connected people, to execute complex tasks. In this paper, we investigate two different CMCS recruitment st...
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What to use when we lose Publisher?
Doing a little crowd sourcing research for a family member who uses Publisher to make church flyers. She’s getting anxious about Publisher being discontinued and a quick google search gave me an uns...
Anyone used Exoticca? Over-hyped or bargain? : r/TravelHacks - Reddit
Dec 2, 2022 · Exoticca much less, but less in pkg. No welcome reception, only tour guide, smaller bus for tours crowded, no portable earphones, no dinners included, and lots less helpful info upfront …
Visual Knowledge Tracing
Each year, thousands of people learn new visual categorization tasks -- radiologists learn to recognize tumors, birdwatchers learn to distinguish similar species, and crowd workers learn how to annotate valuable data for applications like autonomous...
Birdwatch: Crowd Wisdom and Bridging Algorithms can Inform Understanding and Reduce the Sp…
We present an approach for selecting objectively informative and subjectively helpful annotations to social media posts. We draw on data from on an online environment where contributors annotate misinformation and simultaneously rate the contribution...
Can crowdsourcing rescue the social marketplace of ideas?
Facebook and Twitter recently announced community-based review platforms to address misinformation. We provide an overview of the potential affordances of such community-based approaches to content moderation based on past research and preliminary an...
Crowdsourced Fact-Checking at Twitter: How Does the Crowd Compare With Experts?
Fact-checking is one of the effective solutions in fighting online misinformation. However, traditional fact-checking is a process requiring scarce expert human resources, and thus does not scale well on social media because of the continuous flow of...