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By Sze Ming Lee, Yunxiao Chen
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By Lawrence Clegg, John Cartlidge
arXiv:2505. 23437v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ranking systems influence decision-making in high-stakes domains like health, education, and employment, where they can have substantial economic and social impacts.
By Antonio Ferrara, Andrea Pugnana, Francesco Bonchi, Salvatore Ruggieri
arXiv:2604. 17805v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pairwise ranking systems based on Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE), such as the Bradley-Terry model, are widely used to aggregate preferences from pairwise comparisons.
By Junyi Yao, Zihao Zheng, Jiayu Long
arXiv:2601. 21816v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluating the performance of large language models (LLMs) from human preference data is crucial for obtaining LLM leaderboards.
By Dennis Frauen, Athiya Deviyani, Mihaela van der Schaar, Stefan Feuerriegel
arXiv:2506. 06989v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning-to-rank (LTR) systems commonly depend on implicit feedback, such as user clicks, because it is easy to collect and can serve as a valuable signal of user preferences.
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