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We study the problem of learning to rank from pairwise preferences, and solve a long-standing open problem that has led to development of many heuristics but no provable results for our particular problem. Given a set $V$ of $n$ elements,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-05-18 Nir Ailon

We initiate the study of active learning algorithms for classifying strategic agents. Active learning is a well-established framework in machine learning in which the learner selectively queries labels, often achieving substantially higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Maria-Florina Balcan , Hedyeh Beyhaghi

Labelled data often comes at a high cost as it may require recruiting human labelers or running costly experiments. At the same time, in many practical scenarios, one already has access to a partially labelled, potentially biased dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Fnu Devvrit , Nived Rajaraman , Pranjal Awasthi

Active learning is particularly of interest for semantic segmentation, where annotations are costly. Previous academic studies focused on datasets that are already very diverse and where the model is trained in a supervised manner with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Sudhanshu Mittal , Joshua Niemeijer , Jörg P. Schäfer , Thomas Brox

Efficient data annotation remains a critical challenge in machine learning, particularly for object detection tasks requiring extensive labeled data. Active learning (AL) has emerged as a promising solution to minimize annotation costs by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Somraj Gautam , Nachiketa Purohit , Gaurav Harit

This work focuses on active learning of distance metrics from relative comparison information. A relative comparison specifies, for a data point triplet $(x_i,x_j,x_k)$, that instance $x_i$ is more similar to $x_j$ than to $x_k$. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Sicheng Xiong , Rómer Rosales , Yuanli Pei , Xiaoli Z. Fern

High accuracy medical image classification can be limited by the costs of acquiring more data as well as the time and expertise needed to label existing images. In this paper, we apply active learning to medical image classification, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Emma Slade , Kim M. Branson

Active learning (AL) is a machine learning algorithm that can achieve greater accuracy with fewer labeled training instances, for having the ability to ask oracles to label the most valuable unlabeled data chosen iteratively and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Ruoyu Wang

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

We propose a new active learning strategy designed for deep neural networks. The goal is to minimize the number of data annotation queried from an oracle during training. Previous active learning strategies scalable for deep networks were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Melanie Ducoffe , Frederic Precioso

Multi-label classification is a widely encountered problem in daily life, where an instance can be associated with multiple classes. In theory, this is a supervised learning method that requires a large amount of labeling. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 XIn Zhang , Yuqi Song , Fei Zuo , Xiaofeng Wang

Machine learning researchers have long noticed the phenomenon that the model training process will be more effective and efficient when the training samples are densely sampled around the underlying decision boundary. While this observation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Honggang Yu , Shihfeng Zeng , Teng Zhang , Ing-Chao Lin , Yier Jin

Active learning is a learning strategy whereby the machine learning algorithm actively identifies and labels data points to optimize its learning. This strategy is particularly effective in domains where an abundance of unlabeled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zan-Kai Chong , Hiroyuki Ohsaki , Bryan Ng

We introduce a new and improved characterization of the label complexity of disagreement-based active learning, in which the leading quantity is the version space compression set size. This quantity is defined as the size of the smallest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Yair Wiener , Steve Hanneke , Ran El-Yaniv

Given a labeled training set and a collection of unlabeled data, the goal of active learning (AL) is to identify the best unlabeled points to label. In this comprehensive study, we analyze the performance of a variety of AL algorithms on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Dara Bahri , Heinrich Jiang , Tal Schuster , Afshin Rostamizadeh

Modern computing and communication technologies can make data collection procedures very efficient. However, our ability to analyze large data sets and/or to extract information out from them is hard-pressed to keep up with our capacities…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-30 Zhanfeng Wang , Yumi Kwon , Yuan-chin Ivan Chang

We study active learning of homogeneous $s$-sparse halfspaces in $\mathbb{R}^d$ under the setting where the unlabeled data distribution is isotropic log-concave and each label is flipped with probability at most $\eta$ for a parameter $\eta…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Chicheng Zhang , Jie Shen , Pranjal Awasthi

We investigate the problem of active learning on a given tree whose nodes are assigned binary labels in an adversarial way. Inspired by recent results by Guillory and Bilmes, we characterize (up to constant factors) the optimal placement of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi , Claudio Gentile , Fabio Vitale , Giovanni Zappella

Active learning is a paradigm of machine learning which aims at reducing the amount of labeled data needed to train a classifier. Its overall principle is to sequentially select the most informative data points, which amounts to determining…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Christophe Denis , Mohamed Hebiri , Boris Ndjia Njike , Xavier Siebert

The primary challenge of multi-label active learning, differing it from multi-class active learning, lies in assessing the informativeness of an indefinite number of labels while also accounting for the inherited label correlation. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yuanyuan Qi , Jueqing Lu , Xiaohao Yang , Joanne Enticott , Lan Du