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Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-04 Alexander Kolnogorov , Sergey Garbar

It is not an exaggeration to say that the recent progress in artificial intelligence technology depends on large-scale and high-quality data. Simultaneously, a prevalent issue exists everywhere: the budget for data labeling is constrained.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yujin Hwang , Won Jo , Juyoung Hong , Yukyung Choi

Active learning enables efficient model training by leveraging interactions between machine learning agents and human annotators. We study and propose a novel framework that formulates batch active learning from the sparse approximation's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Maohao Shen , Bowen Jiang , Jacky Yibo Zhang , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

Batch active learning is a popular approach for efficiently training machine learning models on large, initially unlabelled datasets by repeatedly acquiring labels for batches of data points. However, many recent batch active learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Andreas Kirsch

In the recent past, psychological stress has been increasingly observed in humans, and early detection is crucial to prevent health risks. Stress detection using on-device deep learning algorithms has been on the rise owing to advancements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Abhijith Ragav , Gautham Krishna Gudur

Active Learning (AL) has garnered significant interest across various application domains where labeling training data is costly. AL provides a framework that helps practitioners query informative samples for annotation by oracles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Pouya Ahadi , Blair Winograd , Camille Zaug , Karunesh Arora , Lijun Wang , Kamran Paynabar

Crowdsourcing has emerged as a powerful paradigm for efficiently labeling large datasets and performing various learning tasks, by leveraging crowds of human annotators. When additional information is available about the data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Panagiotis A. Traganitis , Georgios B. Giannakis

Preference-based reinforcement learning has gained prominence as a strategy for training agents in environments where the reward signal is difficult to specify or misaligned with human intent. However, its effectiveness is often limited by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jonathan Erskine , Taku Yamagata , Raúl Santos-Rodríguez

Gathering labeled data to train well-performing machine learning models is one of the critical challenges in many applications. Active learning aims at reducing the labeling costs by an efficient and effective allocation of costly labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Daniel Kottke , Marek Herde , Christoph Sandrock , Denis Huseljic , Georg Krempl , Bernhard Sick

Obtaining labeled data for machine learning tasks can be prohibitively expensive. Active learning mitigates this issue by exploring the unlabeled data space and prioritizing the selection of data that can best improve the model performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Vineeth Rakesh , Swayambhoo Jain

We introduce in this paper a new algorithm for Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) problems. A machine learning paradigm popular within Cognitive Network related topics (e.g., Spectrum Sensing and Allocation). We focus on the case where the rewards…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-04-10 Wassim Jouini , Christophe Moy

Recent advances in machine learning have led to increased deployment of black-box classifiers across a wide variety of applications. In many such situations there is a critical need to both reliably assess the performance of these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-16 Disi Ji , Robert L. Logan , Padhraic Smyth , Mark Steyvers

Crowdsourcing has emerged as an effective means for performing a number of machine learning tasks such as annotation and labelling of images and other data sets. In most early settings of crowdsourcing, the task involved classification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Desmond Cai , Duc Thien Nguyen , Shiau Hong Lim , Laura Wynter

Efficient selection among multiple generative models is increasingly important in modern generative AI, where sampling from suboptimal models is costly. This problem can be formulated as a multi-armed bandit task. Under diversity-aware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Bahar Dibaei Nia , Farzan Farnia

We study the multichannel quickest change detection problem with bandit feedback and controlled sensing, in which an agent sequentially selects one of the data streams to observe at each time-step and aims to detect an unknown change as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yu-Han Huang , Argyrios Gerogiannis , Subhonmesh Bose , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

In supervised learning, acquiring labeled training data for a predictive model can be very costly, but acquiring a large amount of unlabeled data is often quite easy. Active learning is a method of obtaining predictive models with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Hideitsu Hino

Crowdsourcing has been successfully employed in the past as an effective and cheap way to execute classification tasks and has therefore attracted the attention of the research community. However, we still lack a theoretical understanding…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Edoardo Manino , Long Tran-Thanh , Nicholas R. Jennings

Deep active learning aims to reduce the annotation cost for the training of deep models, which is notoriously data-hungry. Until recently, deep active learning methods were ineffectual in the low-budget regime, where only a small number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Ofer Yehuda , Avihu Dekel , Guy Hacohen , Daphna Weinshall

We investigate the Active Clustering Problem (ACP). A learner interacts with an $N$-armed stochastic bandit with $d$-dimensional subGaussian feedback. There exists a hidden partition of the arms into $K$ groups, such that arms within the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-18 Victor Thuot , Alexandra Carpentier , Christophe Giraud , Nicolas Verzelen

Our goal is to deploy a high-accuracy system starting with zero training examples. We consider an "on-the-job" setting, where as inputs arrive, we use real-time crowdsourcing to resolve uncertainty where needed and output our prediction…

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