TL;DR本文介绍及拓展 Bradley-Terry 模型,研究最大似然估计与 Bayesian 推断方法,并提出一种基于隐变量的 EM 算法与 Gibbs 采样算法,从而有效地应用于多种应用场景中。
Abstract
The bradley-terry model is a popular approach to describe probabilities of
the possible outcomes when elements of a set are repeatedly compared with one
another in pairs. It has found many applications including animal behaviour,
chess ranking and multiclass classification. Numerous ex