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#1 How Similar Are Two Elections? [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi] [REL]

Authors: Piotr Faliszewski, Piotr Skowron, Arkadii Slinko, Stanisław Szufa, Nimrod Talmon

We introduce the ELECTION ISOMORPHISM problem and a family of its approximate variants, which we refer to as dISOMORPHISM DISTANCE (d-ID) problems (where d is a metric between preference orders). We show that ELECTION ISOMORPHISM is polynomial-time solvable, and that the d-ISOMORPHISM DISTANCE problems generalize various classic rank-aggregation methods (e.g., those of Kemeny and Litvak). We establish the complexity of our problems (including their inapproximability) and provide initial experiments regarding the ability to solve them in practice.