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New research improves randomized metric distortion bound to 2.3282

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Researchers have improved the upper bound for randomized metric distortion in metric social choice to 2.3282. This new bound, achieved by mixing a random-size stable lottery with Integrated Veto, surpasses the previous best of 2.5. The proof utilizes advanced techniques including conic linear-programming duality and Bernstein basis verification. AI

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New research improves randomized metric distortion bound to 2.3282

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Nisarg Shah ·

    Improving Randomized Metric Distortion to 2.3282

    arXiv:2608.29308v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In metric social choice, each voter ranks a set of $m$ candidates by her distance to them in an unknown metric space. The cost of a candidate is its average distance to the voters. A randomized voting rule must use only the rankin…

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