A Bayesian Mallows approach to nontransitive pair comparison data: how human are sounds?

DOI10.1214/18-AOAS1203MaRDI QIDQ2415475zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Marta Crispino, Elja Arjas, Valeria Vitelli, Natasha Barrett, Arnoldo Frigessi

Publication date 22 May 2019

Published in The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08805, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1554861658

zbMATH Keywords

acousmatic experimentBayesian preference learningMallows modelmusicologynontransitive pairwise comparisonsrankingrecommender systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

Abstract: We are interested in learning how listeners perceive sounds as having human origins. An experiment was performed with a series of electronically synthesized sounds, and listeners were asked to compare them in pairs. We propose a Bayesian probabilistic method to learn individual preferences from non-transitive pairwise comparison data, as happens when one (or more) individual preferences in the data contradicts what is implied by the others. We build a Bayesian Mallows model in order to handle non-transitive data, with a latent layer of uncertainty which captures the generation of preference misreporting. We then develop a mixture extension of the Mallows model, able to learn individual preferences in a heterogeneous population. The results of our analysis of the musicology experiment are of interest to electroacoustic composers and sound designers, and to the audio industry in general, whose aim is to understand how computer generated sounds can be produced in order to sound more human.

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