arXiv:2511.04588cs.AIcs.CY2025-11被引 3

用社会选择理论评估线上辩论中问题的代表性,提升公众参与公平性。

Question the Questions: Auditing Representation in Online Deliberative Processes

  • 基于公正代表原则设计审计框架,量化问题集对参与者诉求的覆盖程度。
  • 算法效率达O(mn log n),可处理数百人、上千题的复杂场景。
  • 实证显示大模型生成问题虽快但代表性不足,适合辅助而非替代人工筛选。

公民会议和协商民意调查等协商过程的核心特征是参与者能直接向专家提问。尽管参与者通常可提出问题,但受时间限制,仅能选取有限数量的问题。这引出了如何从众多问题中选出最能代表全体参与者利益的小集合这一挑战。本文引入一种基于社会选择理论中公正代表(JR)概念的审计框架,用于衡量问题集合的代表性。我们提出了首个适用于一般效用设置的JR审计算法,其中最高效的算法时间复杂度为O(mn log n),m为提议问题数,n为参与者人数。我们将该方法应用于历史协商数据,对比了三类问题集的代表性:(a)由主持人选定的实际问题,(b)通过整数线性规划选出的问题,(c)由大型语言模型生成的摘要问题。结果揭示了大模型在支持协商过程中的潜力与局限性。通过将该方法集成至已在全球50多个国家、数百次协商中使用的在线平台,使实践者能够轻松审计并优化未来协商中的代表性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

A central feature of many deliberative processes, such as citizens' assemblies and deliberative polls, is the opportunity for participants to engage directly with experts. While participants are typically invited to propose questions for expert panels, only a limited number can be selected due to time constraints. This raises the challenge of how to choose a small set of questions that best represent the interests of all participants. We introduce an auditing framework for measuring the level of representation provided by a slate of questions, based on the social choice concept known as justified representation (JR). We present the first algorithms for auditing JR in the general utility setting, with our most efficient algorithm achieving a runtime of $O(mn\log n)$, where $n$ is the number of participants and $m$ is the number of proposed questions. We apply our auditing methods to historical deliberations, comparing the representativeness of (a) the actual questions posed to the expert panel (chosen by a moderator), (b) participants' questions chosen via integer linear programming, (c) summary questions generated by large language models (LLMs). Our results highlight both the promise and current limitations of LLMs in supporting deliberative processes. By integrating our methods into an online deliberation platform that has been used for over hundreds of deliberations across more than 50 countries, we make it easy for practitioners to audit and improve representation in future deliberations.

协商民主大模型应用社会选择

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