Abstract
Crowdsourcing has emerged as a powerful paradigm for efficiently labeling large datasets and performing various learning tasks, by leveraging crowds of human annotators. When additional information is available about the data, constrained or semi-supervised crowdsourcing approaches that enhance the aggregation of labels from human annotators are well motivated. This work deals with constrained crowdsourced classification with instance-level constraints, that capture relationships between pairs of data. A Bayesian algorithm based on variational inference is developed, and its quantifiably improved performance, compared to unsupervised crowdsourcing, is analytically and empirically validated on several crowdsourcing datasets.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Research Track - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2021, Proceedings |
| Editors | Nuria Oliver, Fernando Pérez-Cruz, Stefan Kramer, Jesse Read, Jose A. Lozano |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH |
| Pages | 543-559 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783030865221 |
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| State | Published - 2021 |
| Event | European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: Sep 13 2021 → Sep 17 2021 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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| Volume | 12977 LNAI |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
| Conference | European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2021 |
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| City | Virtual, Online |
| Period | 9/13/21 → 9/17/21 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Keywords
- Bayesian
- Crowdsourcing
- Ensemble learning
- Semi-supervised
- Variational inference