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Training deep models with limited annotations poses a significant challenge when applied to diverse practical domains. Employing semi-supervised learning alongside the self-supervised model offers the potential to enhance label efficiency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ziting Wen , Oscar Pizarro , Stefan Williams

It is widely believed that given the same labeling budget, active learning (AL) algorithms like margin-based active learning achieve better predictive performance than passive learning (PL), albeit at a higher computational cost. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Alexandru Tifrea , Jacob Clarysse , Fanny Yang

In multiple instance multiple label learning, each sample, a bag, consists of multiple instances. To alleviate labeling complexity, each sample is associated with a set of bag-level labels leaving instances within the bag unlabeled. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Tam Nguyen , Raviv Raich

Recent works have shown the effectiveness of randomized smoothing as a scalable technique for building neural network-based classifiers that are provably robust to $\ell_2$-norm adversarial perturbations. In this paper, we employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Hadi Salman , Greg Yang , Jerry Li , Pengchuan Zhang , Huan Zhang , Ilya Razenshteyn , Sebastien Bubeck

Active learning is able to reduce the amount of labelling effort by using a machine learning model to query the user for specific inputs. While there are many papers on new active learning techniques, these techniques rarely satisfy the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Parmida Atighehchian , Frédéric Branchaud-Charron , Alexandre Lacoste

Often, labeling large amount of data is challenging due to high labeling cost limiting the application domain of deep learning techniques. Active learning (AL) tackles this by querying the most informative samples to be annotated among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Kwanyoung Kim , Dongwon Park , Kwang In Kim , Se Young Chun

We study the task of testable learning of general -- not necessarily homogeneous -- halfspaces with adversarial label noise with respect to the Gaussian distribution. In the testable learning framework, the goal is to develop a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Sihan Liu , Nikos Zarifis

Active learning is commonly used to train label-efficient models by adaptively selecting the most informative queries. However, most active learning strategies are designed to either learn a representation of the data (e.g., embedding or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Namrata Nadagouda , Austin Xu , Mark A. Davenport

The deep-learning-based least squares method has shown successful results in solving high-dimensional non-linear partial differential equations (PDEs). However, this method usually converges slowly. To speed up the convergence of this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Wenhan Gao , Chunmei Wang

Training deep object detectors demands expensive bounding box annotation. Active learning (AL) is a promising technique to alleviate the annotation burden. Performing AL at box-level for object detection, i.e., selecting the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jingyi Liao , Xun Xu , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Lile Cai

Several pool-based active learning algorithms (AL) were employed to model potential energy surfaces (PESs) with a minimum number of electronic structure calculations. Theoretical and empirical results suggest that superior strategies can be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Yahya Saleh , Vishnu Sanjay , Armin Iske , Andrey Yachmenev , Jochen Küpper

The remarkable advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced the performance in few-shot learning settings. By using only a small number of labeled examples, referred to as demonstrations, LLMs can effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Katerina Margatina , Timo Schick , Nikolaos Aletras , Jane Dwivedi-Yu

In machine learning, the term active learning regroups techniques that aim at selecting the most useful data to label from a large pool of unlabelled examples. While supervised deep learning techniques have shown to be increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Alex Goupilleau , Tugdual Ceillier , Marie-Caroline Corbineau

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) is a widely-used training strategy for maximizing predictive performance subject to a fixed annotation budget. In AL one iteratively selects training examples for annotation, often those for which the current model is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 David Lowell , Zachary C. Lipton , Byron C. Wallace

Active Learning (AL) is a learning task that requires learners interactively query the labels of the sampled unlabeled instances to minimize the training outputs with human supervisions. In theoretical study, learners approximate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Xiaofeng Cao , Ivor W. Tsang , Guandong Xu

In many real-world machine learning applications, unlabeled samples are easy to obtain, but it is expensive and/or time-consuming to label them. Active learning is a common approach for reducing this data labeling effort. It optimally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ziang Liu , Dongrui Wu

We study pool-based active learning with abstention feedbacks, where a labeler can abstain from labeling a queried example with some unknown abstention rate. This is an important problem with many useful applications. We take a Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-05 Cuong V. Nguyen , Lam Si Tung Ho , Huan Xu , Vu Dinh , Binh Nguyen

The great success that deep models have achieved in the past is mainly owed to large amounts of labeled training data. However, the acquisition of labeled data for new tasks aside from existing benchmarks is both challenging and costly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Clemens-Alexander Brust , Christoph Käding , Joachim Denzler

This paper explores the challenges of PAC learning in semi-enclosed environments that face persistent disruptive noise and demonstrates the weaknesses of traditional learning models based on noise-free data. We present a novel algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Shirmohammad Tavangari , Zahra Shakarami , Aref Yelghi , Asef Yelghi