Stability Post-processing for Items Importance in Preference Learning via the Bayesian Mallows Model
摘要
Rank and preference data are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, stimulating continuous advances in preference learning methodologies and their wider adoption across different domains. The Lower-dimensional Bayesian Mallows Models with Mixtures (LowBM3) is a recent extension of the Bayesian Mallows Models, which was originally developed as a unifying Bayesian framework to estimate the Mallows model. LowBM3 extends the Bayesian Mallows Model to ultra-high-dimensional settings, allowing to estimate a clustering of the assessors, and the within-cluster sets of relevant items and their consensus rankings. In this paper, we propose a novel post-processing strategy for LowBM3, named stability post-processing. We validate our methodology through experimental analysis and demonstrate its superior performance in specific settings characterized by significant variability in absolute rankings across assessors.