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Efficient and Parsimonious Agnostic Active Learning

Machine Learning 2016-01-08 v3 Machine Learning

Abstract

We develop a new active learning algorithm for the streaming setting satisfying three important properties: 1) It provably works for any classifier representation and classification problem including those with severe noise. 2) It is efficiently implementable with an ERM oracle. 3) It is more aggressive than all previous approaches satisfying 1 and 2. To do this we create an algorithm based on a newly defined optimization problem and analyze it. We also conduct the first experimental analysis of all efficient agnostic active learning algorithms, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses in different settings.

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@article{arxiv.1506.08669,
  title  = {Efficient and Parsimonious Agnostic Active Learning},
  author = {Tzu-Kuo Huang and Alekh Agarwal and Daniel J. Hsu and John Langford and Robert E. Schapire},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.08669},
  year   = {2016}
}
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