Artificial Delegates Resolve Fairness Issues in Perpetual Voting with Partial Turnout

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Autori principali: Shah, Apurva, Abels, Axel, Nowé, Ann, Lenaerts, Tom
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Shah, Apurva
Abels, Axel
Nowé, Ann
Lenaerts, Tom
author_facet Shah, Apurva
Abels, Axel
Nowé, Ann
Lenaerts, Tom
contents Perpetual voting addresses fairness in sequential collective decision-making by evaluating representational equity over time. However, existing perpetual voting rules rely on full participation and complete approval information, assumptions that rarely hold in practice, where partial turnout is the norm. In this work, we study the integration of Artificial Delegates, preference-learning agents trained to represent absent voters, into perpetual voting systems. We examine how absenteeism affects fairness and representativeness under various voting methods and evaluate the extent to which Artificial Delegates can compensate for missing participation. Our findings indicate that while absenteeism significantly affects fairness, Artificial Delegates reliably mitigate these effects and enhance robustness across diverse scenarios.
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spellingShingle Artificial Delegates Resolve Fairness Issues in Perpetual Voting with Partial Turnout
Shah, Apurva
Abels, Axel
Nowé, Ann
Lenaerts, Tom
Machine Learning
Computers and Society
Perpetual voting addresses fairness in sequential collective decision-making by evaluating representational equity over time. However, existing perpetual voting rules rely on full participation and complete approval information, assumptions that rarely hold in practice, where partial turnout is the norm. In this work, we study the integration of Artificial Delegates, preference-learning agents trained to represent absent voters, into perpetual voting systems. We examine how absenteeism affects fairness and representativeness under various voting methods and evaluate the extent to which Artificial Delegates can compensate for missing participation. Our findings indicate that while absenteeism significantly affects fairness, Artificial Delegates reliably mitigate these effects and enhance robustness across diverse scenarios.
title Artificial Delegates Resolve Fairness Issues in Perpetual Voting with Partial Turnout
topic Machine Learning
Computers and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21186