Token-Curated Registry with Citation Graph

Authors

  • Kensuke Ito The University of Tokyo
  • Hideyuki Tanaka The University of Tokyo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/ledger.2019.182

Keywords:

token-curated registry, mechanism design, peer prediction, PageRank, citation graph

Abstract

In this study, we aim to incorporate the expertise of anonymous curators into a token-curated registry (TCR), a decentralized recommender system for collecting a list of high-quality content. This registry is important, because previous studies on TCRs have not specifically focused on technical content, such as academic papers and patents, whose effective curation requires expertise in relevant fields. To measure expertise, curation in our model focuses on both the content and its citation relationships, for which curator assignment uses the Personalized PageRank (PPR) algorithm while reward computation uses a multi-task peer-prediction mechanism. Our proposed CitedTCR bridges the literature on network-based and token-based recommender systems and contributes to the autonomous development of an evolving citation graph for high-quality content. Moreover, we experimentally confirm the incentive for registration and curation in CitedTCR using the simplification of a one-to-one correspondence between users and content (nodes).

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Published

2019-12-13

How to Cite

Ito, K., & Tanaka, H. (2019). Token-Curated Registry with Citation Graph. Ledger, 4. https://doi.org/10.5195/ledger.2019.182

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Research Articles