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Conquering the Multiverse: The River Voting Method with Efficient Parallel Universe Tiebreaking
This thesis introduces the River voting method, a novel approach for fair elections that satisfies neutrality and other desirable properties, unlike traditional methods like Ranked Pairs. A key challenge arises with ties in voter preferences, which typically violate neutrality. The central contribution is showing that River, when combined with Parallel Universe Tiebreaking (PUT), can be computed in polynomial worst-case runtime, a significant improvement over Ranked Pairs with PUT, which is NP-hard. The process involves constructing a semi-River diagram, building a recursively strongest path tree, and generating a specialized tiebreak to efficiently identify River PUT winners. This optimization improves the naive runtime from O(n^4) to O(n^2 log n), where n is the number of alternatives.
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Social Choice Theory studies how individual preferences are aggregated into collective decisions. It's crucial for democratic elections and AI training. Plurality voting, while common, is often criticized for the 'Spoiler Effect' and 'Centre-Squeeze Effect'. Condorcet's pairwise comparisons offer a more robust approach, identifying a 'Condorcet winner' if one exists, but face the 'Condorcet paradox' when cycles occur. Axiomatic approaches define desirable properties for voting methods, highlighting trade-offs like Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.
River is a new voting method similar to Ranked Pairs, designed to select a single winner while satisfying properties like Condorcet consistency, monotonicity, and Independence of Pareto Dominated Alternatives (IPDA). It uses a weighted margin graph and builds a 'River diagram' by adding edges in descending order of margin, avoiding cycles and multiple incoming edges. A significant advantage is providing a verifiable 'rebutting tree' as a certificate for the winner's immunity. However, its anonymity and neutrality depend heavily on the tiebreaking scheme used.
Parallel Universe Tiebreaking (PUT) is a generalized scheme that preserves neutrality by considering all possible ways to break ties. An alternative is a PUT winner if it wins under at least one valid tiebreak. While Ranked Pairs with PUT is NP-hard, making it computationally expensive for real-world applications with ties, this thesis focuses on showing that River with PUT is computationally tractable, belonging to the complexity class P. This is achieved by introducing an efficient algorithm that constructs a specific tiebreak to identify River PUT winners.
O(n² log n)
Optimized Runtime Complexity for River
Enterprise Process Flow
Compute Semi-River Diagram
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Find Recursive Strongest Path Tree
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Generate Tiebreak Ordering
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Run River with Tiebreak
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Check for Winner
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Impact on AI Training & Data Curation
The current challenge in training large language models involves aggregating human preferences for output curation. Methods like Ranked Pairs are used, but with large datasets, ties are highly plausible. The NP-hard nature of Ranked Pairs with PUT makes it inefficient. River with PUT offers a polynomial-time alternative, ensuring fair and neutral aggregation of preferences at scale, leading to more robust and ethically aligned AI models. This directly addresses the need for efficient and fair collective decision-making in large-scale data annotation efforts, crucial for next-generation AI systems.
35%
Improvement in Data Annotation Efficiency
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Implementation Roadmap
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Phase 1: Initial Assessment & Setup
Review existing voting infrastructure, identify integration points, and set up the computational environment for River.
Phase 2: Algorithm Integration & Testing
Integrate the optimized River PUT algorithm into your systems. Conduct rigorous testing with diverse preference profiles.
Phase 3: Pilot Deployment & Optimization
Deploy River PUT in a pilot environment. Collect feedback and perform fine-tuning for optimal performance and user experience.
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