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Streaming Bayesian inference for crowdsourced classification

Streaming Bayesian inference for crowdsourced classification
Streaming Bayesian inference for crowdsourced classification
A key challenge in crowdsourcing is inferring the ground truth from noisy and unreliable data. To do so, existing approaches rely on collecting redundant information from the crowd, and aggregating it with some probabilistic method. However, oftentimes such methods are computationally inefficient, are restricted to some specific settings, or lack theoretical guarantees. In this paper, we revisit the problem of binary classification from crowdsourced data. Specifically we propose Streaming Bayesian Inference for Crowdsourcing (SBIC), a new algorithm that does not suffer from any of these limitations. First, SBIC has low complexity and can be used in a real-time online setting. Second, SBIC has the same accuracy as the best state-of-the-art algorithms in all settings. Third, SBIC has provable asymptotic guarantees both in the online and offline settings.
Manino, Edoardo
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Tran-Thanh, Long
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Jennings, Nicholas
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Manino, Edoardo
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Tran-Thanh, Long
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Jennings, Nicholas
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Manino, Edoardo, Tran-Thanh, Long and Jennings, Nicholas (2019) Streaming Bayesian inference for crowdsourced classification. 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019), , Vancouver, Canada. 08 - 14 Dec 2019. 11 pp .

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Abstract

A key challenge in crowdsourcing is inferring the ground truth from noisy and unreliable data. To do so, existing approaches rely on collecting redundant information from the crowd, and aggregating it with some probabilistic method. However, oftentimes such methods are computationally inefficient, are restricted to some specific settings, or lack theoretical guarantees. In this paper, we revisit the problem of binary classification from crowdsourced data. Specifically we propose Streaming Bayesian Inference for Crowdsourcing (SBIC), a new algorithm that does not suffer from any of these limitations. First, SBIC has low complexity and can be used in a real-time online setting. Second, SBIC has the same accuracy as the best state-of-the-art algorithms in all settings. Third, SBIC has provable asymptotic guarantees both in the online and offline settings.

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Accepted/In Press date: 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: December 2019
Venue - Dates: 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019), , Vancouver, Canada, 2019-12-08 - 2019-12-14

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Local EPrints ID: 435912
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/435912
PURE UUID: 988e738c-4142-42ac-971b-8c9e27f8474f
ORCID for Edoardo Manino: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0028-5440
ORCID for Long Tran-Thanh: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1617-8316

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Date deposited: 22 Nov 2019 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 05:13

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Author: Edoardo Manino ORCID iD
Author: Long Tran-Thanh ORCID iD
Author: Nicholas Jennings

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