Spectral Ranking with Covariates

Abstract

We consider approaches to the classical problem of establishing a statistical ranking on a given set of items from incomplete and noisy pairwise comparisons, and propose spectral algorithms able to leverage available covariate information about the items. We give a comprehensive study of several ways such side information can be useful in spectral ranking. We establish connections of the resulting algorithms to reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces and associated dependence measures, along with an extension to fair ranking using statistical parity. We present an extensive set of numerical experiments showcasing the competitiveness of the proposed algorithms with state-of-the-art methods.

Cite

Text

Chau et al. "Spectral Ranking with Covariates." European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2022. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-26419-1_5

Markdown

[Chau et al. "Spectral Ranking with Covariates." European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2022.](https://mlanthology.org/ecmlpkdd/2022/chau2022ecmlpkdd-spectral/) doi:10.1007/978-3-031-26419-1_5

BibTeX

@inproceedings{chau2022ecmlpkdd-spectral,
  title     = {{Spectral Ranking with Covariates}},
  author    = {Chau, Siu Lun and Cucuringu, Mihai and Sejdinovic, Dino},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases},
  year      = {2022},
  pages     = {70-86},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-031-26419-1_5},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ecmlpkdd/2022/chau2022ecmlpkdd-spectral/}
}