preferences (i.e. a 'voting rule')? And if so, which voting rule best describes their behavior? We show that a prominent neural … network can be trained to respect two fundamental principles of voting theory, the unanimity principle and the Pareto property … chooses, and find that among a number of popular voting rules its behavior mimics most closely the Borda rule. Indeed, the …

Voting rules can be assessed from quite different perspectives: the axiomatic, the pragmatic, in terms of computational … learning perspective and ask how 'well' a few prominent voting rules can be learned by a neural network. To address this … training sample size for a neural network varies significantly with the voting rule, and we rank a number of popular voting …