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% This is the code to reproduce the experimental results for Mixed-effect HodgeRank in T-PAMI 2018.
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% Please refer to the following paper:
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% Qianqian Xu, Jiechao Xiong, Xiaochun Cao, Qingming Huang, Yuan Yao, “From Social to Individuals: a Parsimonious Path of Multi-level Models for Crowdsourced Preference Aggregation”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), 41(4):844-856, 2019. [doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2018.2817205]
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