Randomized Kaczmarz for Rank Aggregation from Pairwise Comparisons

05/09/2016
by   Vivek S. Borkar, et al.
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We revisit the problem of inferring the overall ranking among entities in the framework of Bradley-Terry-Luce (BTL) model, based on available empirical data on pairwise preferences. By a simple transformation, we can cast the problem as that of solving a noisy linear system, for which a ready algorithm is available in the form of the randomized Kaczmarz method. This scheme is provably convergent, has excellent empirical performance, and is amenable to on-line, distributed and asynchronous variants. Convergence, convergence rate, and error analysis of the proposed algorithm are presented and several numerical experiments are conducted whose results validate our theoretical findings.

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