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Adaptive incentive selection for crowdsourcing contests

Adaptive incentive selection for crowdsourcing contests
Adaptive incentive selection for crowdsourcing contests
The success of crowdsourcing projects relies critically on motivating the crowd to contribute. One particularly effective method for incentivising participants to perform tasks is to run contests. However, there are numerous ways to implement such contests in specific projects (that vary in how performance is evaluated, how to reward, and the sizes of the prizes). Additionally, with a given financial budget and a time limit, choosing incentives that maximise the total outcome (e.g., the total number of completed tasks) is not trivial, as their effectiveness in a specific project is usually unknown in advance. Therefore, we introduce algorithms to select such incentives effectively using budgeted multi-armed bandits. To do that, we first introduce the incentive selection problem, then formalise it as a 2d-budgeted multi-armed bandit, where each arm corresponds to an incentive (i.e., a contest with a specific structure). We then propose the HAIS and Stepped e-first algorithms to solve the incentive selection problem. The two algorithms are shown to be effective on simulations with synthetic data. Stepped e-first performs well, but requires a situation-specific parameter to be tuned appropriately (which may be difficult in settings with little prior experience). In contrast to this, HAIS performs better in most cases without depending significantly on the parameter tuning.
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Truong, Nhat, Van Quoc
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Stein, Sebastian
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Tran-Thanh, Long
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Truong, Nhat, Van Quoc
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Stein, Sebastian
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Tran-Thanh, Long
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Truong, Nhat, Van Quoc, Stein, Sebastian, Tran-Thanh, Long and Jennings, Nick (2018) Adaptive incentive selection for crowdsourcing contests. 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2018, , Stockholm, Sweden. 10 - 15 Jul 2018. pp. 2100-2102 .

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Abstract

The success of crowdsourcing projects relies critically on motivating the crowd to contribute. One particularly effective method for incentivising participants to perform tasks is to run contests. However, there are numerous ways to implement such contests in specific projects (that vary in how performance is evaluated, how to reward, and the sizes of the prizes). Additionally, with a given financial budget and a time limit, choosing incentives that maximise the total outcome (e.g., the total number of completed tasks) is not trivial, as their effectiveness in a specific project is usually unknown in advance. Therefore, we introduce algorithms to select such incentives effectively using budgeted multi-armed bandits. To do that, we first introduce the incentive selection problem, then formalise it as a 2d-budgeted multi-armed bandit, where each arm corresponds to an incentive (i.e., a contest with a specific structure). We then propose the HAIS and Stepped e-first algorithms to solve the incentive selection problem. The two algorithms are shown to be effective on simulations with synthetic data. Stepped e-first performs well, but requires a situation-specific parameter to be tuned appropriately (which may be difficult in settings with little prior experience). In contrast to this, HAIS performs better in most cases without depending significantly on the parameter tuning.

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Published date: 2018
Venue - Dates: 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2018, , Stockholm, Sweden, 2018-07-10 - 2018-07-15

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Local EPrints ID: 419826
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/419826
PURE UUID: 30e2ef39-253b-43e2-a9dd-14dc538650d6
ORCID for Nhat, Van Quoc Truong: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4945-8197
ORCID for Sebastian Stein: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2858-8857
ORCID for Long Tran-Thanh: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1617-8316

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Date deposited: 23 Apr 2018 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:57

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Author: Nhat, Van Quoc Truong ORCID iD
Author: Sebastian Stein ORCID iD
Author: Long Tran-Thanh ORCID iD
Author: Nick Jennings

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