---
title: "Bin Yu"
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entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Bin Yu"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z"
connects_to: ["weighted majority voting","crowdsourcing label aggregation","Hongwei Li","Dawid-Skene model"]
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
seek_code_commit: "17d9798"
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Statistician, co-author with Hongwei Li of "Error Rate Bounds and Iterative Weighted Majority Voting for Crowdsourcing" (2014, arXiv:1411.4086) — a paper that builds finite-sample error bounds and an iterative weighted-majority-voting procedure directly on the 1979 Dawid-Skene confusion-matrix/EM model, naming that ancestry explicitly in its own introduction. Matters to this vault as one of the two authors sitting directly on the citation bridge between a 1979 clinical-statistics paper and RA-RAG (2025)'s reliability-weighted retrieval mechanism.

## References
- 2026-08-13: Co-author of the 2014 paper that names Dawid & Skene (1979) as "the first improvement over majority voting" and that RA-RAG (2025) explicitly extends. ([[claim-li-yu-2014-credits-dawid-skene-1979-as-wmv-ancestor]])