We study ranking models by population-average utility from pairwise comparisons when preferences vary across users and tasks.
Prior work shows that a single comparison per user can be insufficient to identify the alternative with the highest average utility, even with arbitrarily many users (Golz et al., 2025).
We investigate how many repeated comparisons within each user-task context are necessary and sufficient for ranking recovery.
Algorithmic Approaches
Under a heterogeneous Bradley-Terry model with fixed inverse temperature, we start with a naive MLE-based algorithm that requires $Ω(1/Δ^2)$ repeated comparisons per context to ensure ranking recovery.
We then present two MLE-based variants and a randomized Russian Roulette-style algorithm that recover the ranking using $O(\log(1/Δ))$ repeated comparisons per context, and we prove that this logarithmic dependence is optimal.
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