IEEE Access (Jan 2021)

<italic>K</italic>-Submodlar Function Based Incentive Mechanisms for Crowd Multi-Labeling

  • Jiajun Sun,
  • Shuning Sun,
  • Qingying Sun,
  • Wei Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3072212
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9
pp. 57841 – 57850

Abstract

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Crowd labeling, as a new paradigm of labeling classification problems, has enabled it to create a tremendous amount of high-quality labeling datasets by harnessing extensive ordinary human comprehension at a low cost. However, existing works mainly focus on a single label scene(one instance is only associated with a single label or a category). They do not fit some real applications well where one instance can associate with multiple labels and different categories can have different budget limits. In this paper, we find that the issue can be addressed by introducing $K$ -submodlar function, which has received extensive attention recently. Moreover, we further propose a $K$ -submodlar function based incentive mechanism for crowd multi-labeling scene, satisfying the truthfulness, individual rationality, computational efficiency. Extensive simulations validate the theoretical properties of our mechanism.

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