A testbed to enable comparisons between competing approaches for computational social choice
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Within artificial intelligence, the field of computational social choice studies the application of AI techniques to the problem of group decision making, especially through systems where each agent submits a vote taking the form of a total ordering over the alternatives (a preference). Reaching a reasonable decision becomes more difficult when some agents are unwilling or unable to rank all the alternatives, and appropriate voting systems must be devised to handle the resulting incomplete preference information. In this paper, we present a detailed testbed which can be used to perform information analytics in this domain. We illustrate the testbed in action for the context of determining a winner or putting candidates into ranked order, using data from realworld elections, and demonstrate how to use the results of the testbed to produce effective comparisons between competing algorithms.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it