arxivcs.LG2026-07-15
From Novice to Expert: Cost-Aware Bandits for Evolving Worker Performance in Crowdsensing
Yin Huang, Qingsong Liu, Jie Xu
Mobile crowdsensing (MC) recruits mobile users to perform sensing tasks using their smartphones, enabling large-scale applications such as traffic monitoring and environmental sensing. A fundamental challenge is online worker recruitment under uncertainty, where the platform must…