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Minimum-Margin Active Learning

Machine Learning 2019-06-04 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

We present a new active sampling method we call min-margin which trains multiple learners on bootstrap samples and then chooses the examples to label based on the candidates' minimum margin amongst the bootstrapped models. This extends standard margin sampling in a way that increases its diversity in a supervised manner as it arises from the model uncertainty. We focus on the one-shot batch active learning setting, and show theoretically and through extensive experiments on a broad set of problems that min-margin outperforms other methods, particularly as batch size grows.

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@article{arxiv.1906.00025,
  title  = {Minimum-Margin Active Learning},
  author = {Heinrich Jiang and Maya Gupta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.00025},
  year   = {2019}
}