Editing Elo rating system (section)

===Other usage===
The Elo rating system has been used in [[soft biometrics]],<ref>[http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/272922/1/IJCB%20(3).pdf "Using Comparative Human Descriptions for Soft Biometrics"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308190221/http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/272922/1/IJCB%20%283%29.pdf |date=2013-03-08 }}, D.A. Reid and M.S. Nixon, International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2011</ref> which concerns the identification of individuals using human descriptions. Comparative descriptions were utilized alongside the Elo rating system to provide robust and discriminative 'relative measurements', permitting accurate identification.

The Elo rating system has also been used in biology for assessing male dominance hierarchies,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Pörschmann |journal=Molecular Ecology|year=2010|volume=19|issue=12|pages=2574–86|title=Male reproductive success and its behavioural correlates in a polygynous mammal, the Galápagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) |doi=10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04665.x |pmid=20497325 |s2cid=19595719|display-authors=etal}}</ref> and in automation and computer vision for [[fabric inspection]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Tsang |journal=Pattern Recognition |year=2016 |volume=51 |pages=378–394 |title=Fabric inspection based on the Elo rating method |doi=10.1016/j.patcog.2015.09.022 |bibcode=2016PatRe..51..378T |hdl=10722/229176 |display-authors=etal |url=https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7236&context=hkbu_staff_publication |access-date=2020-05-05 |archive-date=2020-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105011616/https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7236&context=hkbu_staff_publication |url-status=dead|hdl-access=free }}</ref>

Moreover, [[online judge]] sites are also using Elo rating system or its derivatives. For example, [[Topcoder]] is using a modified version based on normal distribution,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/tc/Algorithm+Competition+Rating+System |title=Algorithm Competition Rating System|date=December 23, 2009|access-date=September 16, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110902110117/http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/tc/Algorithm+Competition+Rating+System|archive-date=September 2, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> while [[Codeforces]] is using another version based on logistic distribution.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.codeforces.com/help|title=FAQ: What are the rating and the divisions?|access-date=September 16, 2011|archive-date=September 25, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925191346/http://codeforces.com/help|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.codeforces.com/blog/entry/870|title=Rating Distribution|access-date=September 16, 2011|archive-date=October 13, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013103750/http://codeforces.com/blog/entry/870|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.codeforces.com/blog/entry/893|title=Regarding rating: Part 2|access-date=September 16, 2011 |archive-date=October 13, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013063622/http://codeforces.com/blog/entry/893|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Elo rating system has also been noted in dating apps, such as in the matchmaking app [[Tinder (app)|Tinder]], which uses a variant of the Elo rating system.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|url=https://killscreen.com/articles/tinder-matchmaking-is-more-like-warcraft-than-you-might-think/|title=Tinder matchmaking is more like Warcraft than you might think – Kill Screen|date=2016-01-14|work=Kill Screen |access-date=2017-08-19|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819190821/https://killscreen.com/articles/tinder-matchmaking-is-more-like-warcraft-than-you-might-think/|archive-date=2017-08-19|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The YouTuber [[Marques Brownlee]] and his team used Elo rating system when they let people to vote between digital photos taken with different [[smartphone]] models launched in 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQdjmGimh04|title=The Best Smartphone Camera 2022!|website=[[YouTube]] |date=2022-12-22|access-date=2023-01-07|language=en-US}}</ref>

The Elo rating system has also been used in [[College and university rankings in the United States#Revealed preference rankings|U.S. revealed preference college rankings]], such as those by the digital credential firm Parchment.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Avery |first1=Christopher N. |author-link=Christopher N. Avery |last2=Glickman |first2=Mark E. |last3=Hoxby |first3=Caroline M. |last4=Metrick |first4=Andrew |date=2013-02-01 |title=A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities |url= |journal=[[The Quarterly Journal of Economics]] |language=en |volume=128 |issue=1 |pages=425–467 |doi=10.1093/qje/qjs043 |issn=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Irwin |first1=Neil |date=4 September 2014 |title=Why Colleges With a Distinct Focus Have a Hidden Advantage |work=[[The New York Times]] |department=[[The Upshot]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/upshot/why-colleges-with-a-distinct-focus-have-a-hidden-advantage.html |access-date=9 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Selingo |first1=Jeffrey J. |date=September 23, 2015 |title=When students have choices among top colleges, which one do they choose? |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/09/23/when-students-have-choices-among-top-colleges-which-one-do-they-choose/ |access-date=9 May 2023}}</ref>

The Elo rating system has also been adopted to evaluate AI models. In 2021, Anthropic utilized the Elo system for ranking AI models in their research.<ref>{{cite arXiv|last1=Askell |first1=Amanda |title=A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment |date=2021-12-09 |eprint=2112.00861 |last2=Bai |first2=Yuntao |last3=Chen |first3=Anna |last4=Drain |first4=Dawn |last5=Ganguli |first5=Deep |last6=Henighan |first6=Tom |last7=Jones |first7=Andy |last8=Joseph |first8=Nicholas |last9=Mann |first9=Ben|class=cs.CL }}</ref> The LMSYS leaderboard briefly employed the Elo rating system to rank AI models<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chatbot Arena Leaderboard Week 8: Introducing MT-Bench and Vicuna-33B {{!}} LMSYS Org |url=https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-06-22-leaderboard |access-date=2024-02-28 |website=lmsys.org |language=en}}</ref> before transitioning to [[Bradley–Terry model]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chatbot Arena: New models & Elo system update {{!}} LMSYS Org |url=https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-12-07-leaderboard |access-date=2024-02-28 |website=lmsys.org |language=en}}</ref>