A Study of Unsupervised Adaptive Crowdsourcing

Abstract: We consider unsupervised crowdsourcing performance based on the model wherein the responses of end-users are essentially rated according to how their responses correlate with the majority of other responses to the same subtasks/questions. In one setting, we consider an independent sequence of identically distributed crowdsourcing assignments (meta-tasks), while in the other we consider a single assignment with a large number of component subtasks. Both problems yield intuitive results in which the overall reliability of the crowd is a factor.