Crowdsourcing Utilizing Subgroup Structure of Latent Factor Modeling

DATE: 2023-04-19 18:31:01
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Speaker Annie Qu host Wei Zhong
Description <p>Crowdsourcing has emerged as an alternative solution for collecting large scale labels. However, the majority of recruited workers are not domain experts, so their contributed labels could be noisy. In this paper, we propose a two-stage model to predict the true labels for multicategory classification tasks in crowdsourcing. In the first stage, we fit the observed labels with a latent factor model and incorporate subgroup structures for both tasks and workers through a multi-centroid grouping penalty. Group-specific rotations are introduced to align workers with different task categories to solve multicategory crowdsourcingtasks. In the second stage, we propose a concordance-based approach to identify high-quality worker subgroups who are relied upon to assign labels to tasks. In theory, we show the estimation consistency of the latent factors and the prediction consistency of the proposed method. The simulation studies show that the proposed method outperforms the existing competitive methods, assuming the subgroup structures within tasks and workers. We also demonstrate the application of the proposed method to real world problems and show its superiority.</p> Time 2023-04-24 (Monday) 10:00-11:30
Venue Room 105, Qunxian Building II Organizer 厦门大学研究生院、经济学院、王亚南经济研究院、邹至庄经济研究院
SpeakerIntro <p>Annie Qu is Chancellor&rsquo;s Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California Irvine. Qu 专题 厦门大学群贤学科学术讲座
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