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## Efficient vote elicitation under candidate uncertainty

Craig Boutilier, Yuval Filmus and Joel Oren
IJCAI 2013

Top-$k$ voting is an especially natural form of partial vote elicitation in which only length-$k$ prefixes of rankings are elicited. We analyze the ability of top-$k$ vote elicitation to correctly determine true winners with high probability, given probabilistic models of voter preferences and candidate availability. We provide bounds on the minimal value of $k$ required to determine the correct winner under the plurality and Borda voting rules, considering both worst-case preference profiles and profiles drawn from the impartial culture and Mallows probabilistic models. We also derive conditions under which the special case of zero elicitation (i.e., $k=0$) produces the correct winner. We provide empirical results that confirm the value of top-$k$ voting.

The proof of Theorem 10 is incomplete, but the issue is fixed in subsequent work.

## BibTeX

@inproceedings{BFO2013,
author = {Craig Boutilier and Yuval Filmus and Joel Oren},
title = {Efficient vote elicitation under candidate uncertainty},
booktitle = {23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
({IJCAI} 2013)},
year = {2013},
pages = {309--316}
}
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