Mallows Ranking Models: Maximum Likelihood Estimate and Regeneration

Abstract

This paper is concerned with various Mallows ranking models. We study the statistical properties of the MLE of Mallows’ $\phi$ model. We also make connections of various Mallows ranking models, encompassing recent progress in mathematics. Motivated by the infinite top-$t$ ranking model, we propose an algorithm to select the model size $t$ automatically. The key idea relies on the renewal property of such an infinite random permutation. Our algorithm shows good performance on several data sets.

Cite

Text

Tang. "Mallows Ranking Models: Maximum Likelihood Estimate and Regeneration." International Conference on Machine Learning, 2019.

Markdown

[Tang. "Mallows Ranking Models: Maximum Likelihood Estimate and Regeneration." International Conference on Machine Learning, 2019.](https://mlanthology.org/icml/2019/tang2019icml-mallows/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{tang2019icml-mallows,
  title     = {{Mallows Ranking Models: Maximum Likelihood Estimate and Regeneration}},
  author    = {Tang, Wenpin},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
  year      = {2019},
  pages     = {6125-6134},
  volume    = {97},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/icml/2019/tang2019icml-mallows/}
}