Mechanism works
2026
Orthogonal transitivity projection for pairwise logits
Given arbitrary pairwise preference logits, project their skew-symmetric part onto the additive-consistent subspace before converting logits into probabilities or rankings. This removes cyclic inconsistency using the Frobenius-nearest consistent matrix, guaranteeing transitive pairwise predictions while preserving the closest possible signal under squared error.
Paper: Efficient tensor bases for pairwise comparisons
arXiv:2608.25923