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We introduce a new framework for sample-efficient model evaluation that we call active testing. While approaches like active learning reduce the number of labels needed for model training, existing literature largely ignores the cost of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-15 Jannik Kossen , Sebastian Farquhar , Yarin Gal , Tom Rainforth

Active learning (AL) algorithms aim to identify an optimal subset of data for annotation, such that deep neural networks (DNN) can achieve better performance when trained on this labeled subset. AL is especially impactful in industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Zeyad Ali Sami Emam , Hong-Min Chu , Ping-Yeh Chiang , Wojciech Czaja , Richard Leapman , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

Vulnerability detection is crucial for identifying security weaknesses in software systems. However, training effective machine learning models for this task is often constrained by the high cost and expertise required for data annotation.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xiang Lan , Tim Menzies , Bowen Xu

Active learning (AL) is for optimizing the selection of unlabeled data for annotation (labeling), aiming to enhance model performance while minimizing labeling effort. The key question in AL is which unlabeled data should be selected for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yingrui Ji , Vijaya Sindhoori Kaza , Nishanth Artham , Tianyang Wang

Active Learning for discriminative models has largely been studied with the focus on individual samples, with less emphasis on how classes are distributed or which classes are hard to deal with. In this work, we show that this is harmful.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Jongwon Choi , Kwang Moo Yi , Jihoon Kim , Jinho Choo , Byoungjip Kim , Jin-Yeop Chang , Youngjune Gwon , Hyung Jin Chang

The aim of Active Learning is to select the most informative samples from an unlabelled set of data. This is useful in cases where the amount of data is large and labelling is expensive, such as in machine vision or medical imaging. Two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Julien Combes , Alexandre Derville , Jean-François Coeurjolly

Active learning aims to obtain a classifier of high accuracy by using fewer label requests in comparison to passive learning by selecting effective queries. Many active learning methods have been developed in the past two decades, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Cem Orhan , Öznur Taştan

Active learning (AL) is a training paradigm for selecting unlabeled samples for annotation to improve model performance on a test set, which is useful when only a limited number of samples can be annotated. These algorithms often work by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Lorenzo Jaime Yu Flores , Cesare Spinoso di-Piano , Ori Ernst , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Training machine learning models for classification tasks often requires labeling numerous samples, which is costly and time-consuming, especially in time series analysis. This research investigates Active Learning (AL) strategies to reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Shemonto Das

To obtain a large amount of training labels inexpensively, researchers have recently adopted the weak supervision (WS) paradigm, which leverages labeling rules to synthesize training labels rather than using individual annotations to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Linxin Song , Jieyu Zhang , Tianxiang Yang , Masayuki Goto

The fast classification of new variable stars is an important step in making them available for further research. Selection of science targets from large databases is much more efficient if they have been classified first. Defining the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Debosscher , L. M. Sarro , C. Aerts , J. Cuypers , B. Vandenbussche , R. Garrido , E. Solano

Identifying stars belonging to different classes is vital in order to build up statistical samples of different phases and pathways of stellar evolution. In the era of surveys covering billions of stars, an automated method of identifying…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Sean Enis Cody , Sebastian Scher , Iain McDonald , Albert Zijlstra , Emma Alexander , Nick L. J. Cox

This paper proposes an active learning (AL) algorithm to solve regression problems based on inverse-distance weighting functions for selecting the feature vectors to query. The algorithm has the following features: (i) supports both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Alberto Bemporad

A principle bottleneck in image classification is the large number of training examples needed to train a classifier. Using active learning, we can reduce the number of training examples to teach a CNN classifier by strategically selecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Thien Nhan Vo

Semantic segmentation of satellite imagery plays a vital role in land cover mapping and environmental monitoring. However, annotating large-scale, high-resolution satellite datasets is costly and time consuming, especially when covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Gadi Hemanth Kumar , Athira Nambiar , Pankaj Bodani

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) aims to predict both action category and temporal boundary of action instances in untrimmed videos, i.e., start and end time. Fully-supervised solutions are usually adopted in most existing works, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Ding Li , Xuebing Yang , Yongqiang Tang , Chenyang Zhang , Wensheng Zhang

Active Learning (AL) and Semi-supervised Learning are two techniques that have been studied to reduce the high cost of deep learning by using a small amount of labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data. To improve the accuracy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Jaeseung Lim , Jongkeun Na , Nojun Kwak

The availability of labelled data is one of the main limitations in machine learning. We can alleviate this using weak supervision: a framework that uses expert-defined rules $\boldsymbol{\lambda}$ to estimate probabilistic labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Samantha Biegel , Rafah El-Khatib , Luiz Otavio Vilas Boas Oliveira , Max Baak , Nanne Aben

Deep predictive models rely on human supervision in the form of labeled training data. Obtaining large amounts of annotated training data can be expensive and time consuming, and this becomes a critical bottleneck while building such models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-01 Bindya Venkatesh , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan

Active Learning (AL) aims to reduce the labeling burden by interactively selecting the most informative samples from a pool of unlabeled data. While there has been extensive research on improving AL query methods in recent years, some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Carsten T. Lüth , Till J. Bungert , Lukas Klein , Paul F. Jaeger