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Diversity of Structured Domains via k-Kemeny Scores

Published: September 19, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2509.15812v1

By: Piotr Faliszewski , Krzysztof Sornat , Stanisław Szufa and more

Potential Business Impact:

Makes voting fairer by fixing bad rankings.

Business Areas:
A/B Testing Data and Analytics

In the k-Kemeny problem, we are given an ordinal election, i.e., a collection of votes ranking the candidates from best to worst, and we seek the smallest number of swaps of adjacent candidates that ensure that the election has at most k different rankings. We study this problem for a number of structured domains, including the single-peaked, single-crossing, group-separable, and Euclidean ones. We obtain two kinds of results: (1) We show that k-Kemeny remains intractable under most of these domains, even for k=2, and (2) we use k-Kemeny to rank these domains in terms of their diversity.

Country of Origin
🇬🇧 🇵🇱 Poland, United Kingdom

Page Count
32 pages

Category
Computer Science:
CS and Game Theory