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Various studies have shown the advantages of using Machine Learning (ML) techniques for analog and digital IC design automation and optimization. Data scarcity is still an issue for electronic designs, while training highly accurate ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Prasha Srivastava , Pawan Kumar , Zia Abbas

Discovery of the molecular candidates for applications in drug targets, biomolecular systems, catalysts, photovoltaics, organic electronics, and batteries, necessitates development of machine learning algorithms capable of rapid exploration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ayana Ghosh , Sergei V. Kalinin , Maxim A. Ziatdinov

Training machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) for reactive chemistry is often bottlenecked by the high cost of quantum chemical labels and the scarcity of transition state configurations in candidate pools. Active learning (AL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Eszter Varga-Umbrich , Shikha Surana , Paul Duckworth , Jules Tilly , Olivier Peltre , Zachary Weller-Davies

Structure determination workloads in neutron diffractometry are computationally expensive and routinely require several hours to many days to determine the structure of a material from its neutron diffraction patterns. The potential for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Tianle Wang , Jorge Ramirez , Cristina Garcia-Cardona , Thomas Proffen , Shantenu Jha , Sudip K. Seal

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

We propose a simple, but efficient and accurate machine learning (ML) model for developing high-dimensional potential energy surface. This so-called embedded atom neural network (EANN) approach is inspired by the well-known empirical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Yaolong Zhang , Ce Hu , Bin Jiang

Active learning (AL) is a learning paradigm where an active learner has to train a model (e.g., a classifier) which is in principal trained in a supervised way, but in AL it has to be done by means of a data set with initially unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Adrian Calma , Tobias Reitmaier , Bernhard Sick , Paul Lukowicz , Mark Embrechts

This paper proposes asal, a new GAN based active learning method that generates high entropy samples. Instead of directly annotating the synthetic samples, ASAL searches similar samples from the pool and includes them for training. Hence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Christoph Mayer , Radu Timofte

Generating labeled training datasets has become a major bottleneck in Machine Learning (ML) pipelines. Active ML aims to address this issue by designing learning algorithms that automatically and adaptively select the most informative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Mina Karzand , Robert D. Nowak

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) can drastically accelerate materials discovery; its power has been shown in various classes of materials and target properties. Prior efforts have used machine learning models for the optimal selection of physical…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-18 David E. Farache , Juan C. Verduzco , Zachary D. McClure , Saaketh Desai , Alejandro Strachan

Active Learning (AL) has emerged as a powerful approach for minimizing labeling costs by selectively sampling the most informative data for neural network model development. Effective AL for large-scale vision-language models necessitates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Athmanarayanan Lakshmi Narayanan , Amrutha Machireddy , Ranganath Krishnan

Active learning reduces labeling costs by selecting samples that maximize information gain. A dominant framework, Query-by-Committee (QBC), typically relies on perturbation-based diversity by inducing model disagreement through random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-25 Simon D. Nguyen , Hayden McTavish , Kentaro Hoffman , Cynthia Rudin , Tyler H. McCormick

Materials discovery is a cornerstone of modern technological advancement, yet it remains constrained by traditional trial-and-error paradigms and the inherent bias of human intuition. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a…

Active learning (AL) is a prominent technique for reducing the annotation effort required for training machine learning models. Deep learning offers a solution for several essential obstacles to deploying AL in practice but introduces many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Akim Tsvigun , Artem Shelmanov , Gleb Kuzmin , Leonid Sanochkin , Daniil Larionov , Gleb Gusev , Manvel Avetisian , Leonid Zhukov

ANNs are currently trained by generating large quantities (On the order of $10^{4}$ or greater) of structural data in hopes that the ANN has adequately sampled the energy landscape both near and far-from-equilibrium. This can, however, be a…

While the state-of-the-art performance on entity resolution (ER) has been achieved by deep learning, its effectiveness depends on large quantities of accurately labeled training data. To alleviate the data labeling burden, Active Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Youcef Nafa , Qun Chen , Zhaoqiang Chen , Xingyu Lu , Haiyang He , Tianyi Duan , Zhanhuai Li

This paper introduces a cost-efficient active learning (AL) framework for classification, featuring a novel query design called candidate set query. Unlike traditional AL queries requiring the oracle to examine all possible classes, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yeho Gwon , Sehyun Hwang , Hoyoung Kim , Jungseul Ok , Suha Kwak

An active learning (AL) algorithm seeks to construct an effective classifier with a minimal number of labeled examples in a bootstrapping manner. While standard AL heuristics, such as selecting those points for annotation for which a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Ishani Mondal , Debasis Ganguly

Advances in machine learning (ML) techniques have enabled the development of interatomic potentials that promise both the accuracy of first principles methods and the low-cost, linear scaling, and parallel efficiency of empirical…