English
Related papers

Related papers: Active Self-Paced Learning for Cost-Effective and …

200 papers

The usability of Reinforcement Learning is restricted by the large computation times it requires. Curriculum Reinforcement Learning speeds up learning by defining a helpful order in which an agent encounters tasks, i.e. from simple to hard.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Tobias Niehues , Ulla Scheler , Pascal Klink

Active learning (AL) aims to enhance model performance by selectively collecting highly informative data, thereby minimizing annotation costs. However, in practical scenarios, unlabeled data may contain out-of-distribution (OOD) samples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jaehyuk Heo , Pilsung Kang

In the era of data-driven intelligence, the paradox of data abundance and annotation scarcity has emerged as a critical bottleneck in the advancement of machine learning. This paper gives a detailed overview of Active Learning (AL), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Chiung-Yi Tseng , Junhao Song , Ziqian Bi , Tianyang Wang , Chia Xin Liang , Xinyuan Song , Ming Liu

We propose a new active learning (AL) method for text classification with convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In AL, one selects the instances to be manually labeled with the aim of maximizing model performance with minimal effort. Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Ye Zhang , Matthew Lease , Byron C. Wallace

Active learning (AL) attempts to maximize the performance gain of the model by marking the fewest samples. Deep learning (DL) is greedy for data and requires a large amount of data supply to optimize massive parameters, so that the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Pengzhen Ren , Yun Xiao , Xiaojun Chang , Po-Yao Huang , Zhihui Li , Brij B. Gupta , Xiaojiang Chen , Xin Wang

Recently, single-frame infrared small target (SIRST) detection with single point supervision has drawn wide-spread attention. However, the latest label evolution with single point supervision (LESPS) framework suffers from instability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Chuang Yu , Jinmiao Zhao , Yunpeng Liu , Sicheng Zhao , Yimian Dai , Xiangyu Yue

Active learning has been proposed to reduce data annotation efforts by only manually labelling representative data samples for training. Meanwhile, recent active learning applications have benefited a lot from cloud computing services with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yu-Tong Cao , Jingya Wang , Baosheng Yu , Dacheng Tao

Association football is a complex and dynamic sport, with numerous actions occurring simultaneously in each game. Analyzing football videos is challenging and requires identifying subtle and diverse spatio-temporal patterns. Despite recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Silvio Giancola , Anthony Cioppa , Julia Georgieva , Johsan Billingham , Andreas Serner , Kerry Peek , Bernard Ghanem , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

Active Learning (AL) promises to reduce annotation cost by prioritizing informative samples, yet its reliability is undermined when labels are noisy or when the data distribution shifts. In practice, annotators make mistakes, rare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Atharv Goel , Sharat Agarwal , Saket Anand , Chetan Arora

Deep neural networks have reached high accuracy on object detection but their success hinges on large amounts of labeled data. To reduce the labels dependency, various active learning strategies have been proposed, typically based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ismail Elezi , Zhiding Yu , Anima Anandkumar , Laura Leal-Taixe , Jose M. Alvarez

In the field of face recognition, a model learns to distinguish millions of face images with fewer dimensional embedding features, and such vast information may not be properly encoded in the conventional model with a single branch. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Yonghyun Kim , Wonpyo Park , Myung-Cheol Roh , Jongju Shin

Existing approaches to active learning maximize the system performance by sampling unlabeled instances for annotation that yield the most efficient training. However, when active learning is integrated with an end-user application, this can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Ji-Ung Lee , Christian M. Meyer , Iryna Gurevych

In recent years, deep learning has achieved great success in many natural language processing tasks including named entity recognition. The shortcoming is that a large amount of manually-annotated data is usually required. Previous studies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Mingyi Liu , Zhiying Tu , Tong Zhang , Tonghua Su , Zhongjie Wang

Standard myopic active learning assumes that human annotations are always obtainable whenever new samples are selected. This, however, is unrealistic in many real-world applications where human experts are not readily available at all…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-18 Yazhou Yang , Marco Loog

Face anti-spoofing (FAS) plays a pivotal role in ensuring the security and reliability of face recognition systems. With advancements in vision-language pretrained (VLP) models, recent two-class FAS techniques have leveraged the advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Pei-Kai Huang , Jun-Xiong Chong , Cheng-Hsuan Chiang , Tzu-Hsien Chen , Tyng-Luh Liu , Chiou-Ting Hsu

Face restoration is an inherently ill-posed problem, where additional prior constraints are typically considered crucial for mitigating such pathology. However, real-world image prior are often hard to simulate with precise mathematical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Lingbo Yang , Pan Wang , Zhanning Gao , Shanshe Wang , Peiran Ren , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Active learning (AL) optimizes data labeling efficiency by selecting the most informative instances for annotation. A key component in this procedure is an acquisition function that guides the selection process and identifies the suitable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Abdul Hameed Azeemi , Ihsan Ayyub Qazi , Agha Ali Raza

Active learning is a machine learning approach for reducing the data labeling effort. Given a pool of unlabeled samples, it tries to select the most useful ones to label so that a model built from them can achieve the best possible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Dongrui Wu

Multi-task learning is central to many real-world applications. Unfortunately, obtaining labelled data for all tasks is time-consuming, challenging, and expensive. Active Learning (AL) can be used to reduce this burden. Existing techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Nikita Durasov , Nik Dorndorf , Pascal Fua

Active learning is considered a viable solution to alleviate the contradiction between the high dependency of deep learning-based segmentation methods on annotated data and the expensive pixel-level annotation cost of medical images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jun Shi , Shulan Ruan , Ziqi Zhu , Minfan Zhao , Hong An , Xudong Xue , Bing Yan