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Arnhav Datar
dblp:279/6259
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2ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2022
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
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| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information retrieval › ranking
rank aggregation |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Byzantine Spectral Ranking · NeurIPS 2022 |
Information retrieval
ranking |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Byzantine Spectral Ranking · NeurIPS 2022 |
Information retrieval › ranking › graph-based ranking
spectral ranking |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Byzantine Spectral Ranking · NeurIPS 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
spectral methods · 0.6adversarial analysis · 0.6
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Byzantine Spectral RankingabstractWe study the problem of rank aggregation where the goal is to obtain a global ranking by aggregating pair-wise comparisons of voters over a set of items. We consider an adversarial setting where the voters are partitioned into two sets. The first set votes in a stochastic manner according to the popular score-based Bradley-Terry-Luce (BTL) model for pairwise comparisons. The second set comprises malicious Byzantine voters trying to deteriorate the ranking. We consider a strongly-adversarial scenario where the Byzantine voters know the BTL scores, the votes of the good voters, the algorithm, and can collude with each other. We first show that the popular spectral ranking based Rank-Centrality algorithm, though optimal for the BTL model, does not perform well even when a small constant fraction of the voters are Byzantine.We introduce the Byzantine Spectral Ranking Algorithm (and a faster variant of it), which produces a reliable ranking when the number of good voters exceeds the number of Byzantine voters. We show that no algorithm can produce a satisfactory ranking with probability > 1/2 for all BTL weights when there are more Byzantine voters than good voters, showing that our algorithm works for all possible population fractions. We support our theoretical results with experimental results on synthetic and real datasets to demonstrate the failure of the Rank-Centrality algorithm under several adversarial scenarios and how the proposed Byzantine Spectral Ranking algorithm is robust in obtaining good rankings. Arnhav Datar, Arun Rajkumar, John Augustine 0001 |
NeurIPS | 1 |
| 2022 | Randomized Byzantine Gathering in Rings
John Augustine 0001, Arnhav Datar, Nischith Shadagopan |
OPODIS | 2 |