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# Graph Resistance and Learning from Pairwise Comparisons

@inproceedings{Hendrickx2019GraphRA,
title={Graph Resistance and Learning from Pairwise Comparisons},
author={Julien M. Hendrickx and Alexander Olshevsky and Venkatesh Saligrama},
booktitle={ICML},
year={2019}
}
• Published in ICML 2019
• Computer Science, Mathematics
We consider the problem of learning the qualities of a collection of items by performing noisy comparisons among them. [...] Key Method We prove that, after a known transition period, the relevant graph-theoretic quantity is the square root of the resistance of the comparison graph. Specifically, we provide an algorithm that is minimax optimal. The algorithm has a relative error decay that scales with the square root of the graph resistance, and provide a matching lower bound (up to log factors). The…Expand

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