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Evan Yao
dblp:170/0028
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
0009-0000-6192-3229ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computational social science and digital humanities · 100% |
Topics — the 1 heaviest of 1, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computational social science and digital humanities › social computing
crowdsourcing |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | From Labels to Decisions: A Mapping-Aware Annotator Model · KDD 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
maximum likelihood estimation · 0.7hierarchical bayesian modeling · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | From Labels to Decisions: A Mapping-Aware Annotator ModelabstractOnline platforms regularly rely on human annotators to make real-time operational decisions for tasks such as content moderation. While crowdsourcing models have been proposed for aggregating noisy labels, they do not generalize well when annotators produce a labels in a large space, e.g., generated from complex review trees. We study a novel crowdsourcing setting with D possible operational decisions or outcomes, but annotators produce labels in a larger space of size L > D which are mapped to decisions through a known mapping function. For content moderation, such labels can correspond to violation reasons (e.g. nudity, violence), while the space of decisions is binary: remove the content or keep it up. In this setting, it is more important to make the right decision rather than estimating the correct underlying label. Existing methods typically separate out the labels to decisions mapping from the modeling of annotators, leading to sub-optimal statistical inference efficiency and excessive computation complexity. We propose a novel confusion matrix model for each annotator that leverages this mapping. Our model is parameterized in a hierarchical manner with both population parameters shared across annotators to model shared confusions and individual parameters to admit heterogeneity among annotators. With extensive numerical experiments, we demonstrate that the proposed model substantially improves accuracy over existing methods and scales well for moderate and large L. In a real-world application on content moderation at Meta, the proposed method offers a 13% improvement in AUC over prior methods, including Meta's existing model in production. Evan Yao, Jagdish Ramakrishnan, Xu Chen 0046, Viet-An Nguyen, Udi Weinsberg |
KDD | 1 |