Perturbation Sensitivity of Maximum-Likelihood Pairwise Ranking in Computational Decision Systems

arXiv:2604.17805 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.GT · Submitted 2026-04-20 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.GT

Submitted: 2026-04-20

Updated: 2026-09-15

Terminology

• Robustness — 16× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Aggregation — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Pairwise Comparisons — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Actor — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptive Subset Selection Attack — 3× in this paper
• Maximum Likelihood Estimation — 3× in this paper
• Sparsity — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Bradley-Terry model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Combinatorial Optimization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Inverse Problem — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Randomized Subset Attack — 1× in this paper

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