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将MLE的有效性从准确度扩展到成对比较的偏倚

Stretching the Effectiveness of MLE from Accuracy to Bias for Pairwise Comparisons

Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学)

Jingyan Wang, Nihar B. Shah, R. Ravi

摘要:

许多应用(例如,AI机器人锦标赛、体育、同行评分、众包)使用成对比较数据和布拉德利-特里-卢斯(BTL)模型来评估给定的项目集合(例如,机器人、团队、学生、搜索结果)。过去的工作表明,在BTL模型下,广泛使用的最大似然估计(MLE)是最小最大最优估计项目参数,在均方误差。然而,设计估计量的另一个重要要求是公平性。在这项工作中,我们认为公平建模的概念,在统计偏差。我们表明,MLE招致一个次优率方面的偏见。然后,我们提出了一个简单的修改MLE,“拉伸”的限界框的最大似然优化器的一个小常数因子从底层地面真域。我们表明,这种简单的修改导致偏差的改善率,同时保持最小最大最优的均方误差。以这种方式,我们提出的估计类可证明提高公平性表示的偏见,而不损失准确性。

英文摘要:

A number of applications (e.g., AI bot tournaments, sports, peer grading, crowdsourcing) use pairwise comparison data and the Bradley-Terry-Luce (BTL) model to evaluate a given collection of items (e.g., bots, teams, students, search results). Past work has shown that under the BTL model, the widely-used maximum-likelihood estimator (MLE) is minimax-optimal in estimating the item parameters, in terms of the mean squared error. However, another important desideratum for designing estimators is fairness. In this work, we consider fairness modeled by the notion of bias in statistics. We show that the MLE incurs a suboptimal rate in terms of bias. We then propose a simple modification to the MLE, which "stretches" the bounding box of the maximum-likelihood optimizer by a small constant factor from the underlying ground truth domain. We show that this simple modification leads to an improved rate in bias, while maintaining minimax-optimality in the mean squared error. In this manner, our proposed class of estimators provably improves fairness represented by bias without loss in accuracy.

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