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Record W4409102251 · doi:10.1109/tsmc.2025.3552113

Utility-Driven Minimum Cost Consensus Model With Preference Learning and Fairness Concerns

2025· article· en· W4409102251 on OpenAlexaff
Bowen Zhang, Yucheng Dong, Witold Pedrycz

Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicMulti-Criteria Decision Making
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Science Foundation of Hunan ProvinceNational Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Research Centre
KeywordsPreferenceComputer scienceEconomicsMicroeconomics

Abstract

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Nowadays the emergence of digital technology and artificial intelligence brings a lot of extra information and convenience for group decision activities, such as rich historical decision data, mobile decision platform, artificial interactive device and others. However, it also results in high complexity and uncertainty of the decision environments, modeling and analysis, and the preference of decision maker is crucial to the design of group decision and consensus mechanism. Meanwhile, the information transparency results in more attention being paid to fairness concerns in group decision making. Based on the historical group decision data, this study proposes a novel minimum cost consensus model with preference learning and fairness concerns (MCCM-PLFC), which characterizes the modification motivation of decision makers in a utility-driven way. A preference learning framework is first proposed to determine the parameters of utility functions of decision makers, where fairness concerns are modeled based on the return bias among the decision makers. Then, in a Stackelberg game consensus framework, the MCCM-PLFC is constructed to minimize the consensus cost of the moderator with consideration of the utility-driven behavior of decision makers. In addition, a best-response update algorithm is designed to solve the equilibrium solution among the decision makers and an adaptive differential evolution algorithm is used to solve the MCCM-PLFC. Finally, a throughout of experimental study is performed to quantify the validity of the proposed consensus model.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.726
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.146
GPT teacher head0.367
Teacher spread0.221 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2025
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