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Annotating data is a time-consuming and costly task, but it is inherently required for supervised machine learning. Active Learning (AL) is an established method that minimizes human labeling effort by iteratively selecting the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Julius Gonsior , Tim Rieß , Anja Reusch , Claudio Hartmann , Maik Thiele , Wolfgang Lehner

Active learning (AL) aims to select the most useful data samples from an unlabeled data pool and annotate them to expand the labeled dataset under a limited budget. Especially, uncertainty-based methods choose the most uncertain samples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Seong Min Kye , Kwanghee Choi , Hyeongmin Byun , Buru Chang

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

The existing active learning methods select the samples by evaluating the sample's uncertainty or its effect on the diversity of labeled datasets based on different task-specific or model-specific criteria. In this paper, we propose the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zhuoming Liu , Hao Ding , Huaping Zhong , Weijia Li , Jifeng Dai , Conghui He

Active learning, a powerful paradigm in machine learning, aims at reducing labeling costs by selecting the most informative samples from an unlabeled dataset. However, the traditional active learning process often demands extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Gábor Németh , Tamás Matuszka

We introduce a new framework for sample-efficient model evaluation that we call active testing. While approaches like active learning reduce the number of labels needed for model training, existing literature largely ignores the cost of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-15 Jannik Kossen , Sebastian Farquhar , Yarin Gal , Tom Rainforth

Active Learning (AL) aims to enhance the performance of deep models by selecting the most informative samples for annotation from a pool of unlabeled data. Despite impressive performance in closed-set settings, most AL methods fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Bardia Safaei , Vibashan VS , Celso M. de Melo , Vishal M. Patel

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

Optimal design for model training is a critical topic in machine learning. Active Learning aims at obtaining improved models by querying samples with maximum uncertainty according to the estimation model for artificially labeling; this has…

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

Many active learning and search approaches are intractable for large-scale industrial settings with billions of unlabeled examples. Existing approaches search globally for the optimal examples to label, scaling linearly or even…

Active learning has the potential to be especially useful for messy, uncurated pools where datapoints vary in relevance to the target task. However, state-of-the-art approaches to this problem currently rely on using fixed, unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Kianoosh Ashouritaklimi , Tom Rainforth

Active learning (AL) in open set scenarios presents a novel challenge of identifying the most valuable examples in an unlabeled data pool that comprises data from both known and unknown classes. Traditional methods prioritize selecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Chen-Chen Zong , Ye-Wen Wang , Kun-Peng Ning , Hai-Bo Ye , Sheng-Jun Huang

In this work, we initiate the study of one-round active learning, which aims to select a subset of unlabeled data points that achieve the highest model performance after being labeled with only the information from initially labeled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Tianhao Wang , Si Chen , Ruoxi Jia

Active learning is a promising paradigm to reduce the labeling cost by strategically requesting labels to improve model performance. However, existing active learning methods often rely on expensive acquisition function to compute,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Zixin Ding , Si Chen , Ruoxi Jia , Yuxin Chen

Active learning is a machine learning paradigm that aims to improve the performance of a model by strategically selecting and querying unlabeled data. One effective selection strategy is to base it on the model's predictive uncertainty,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Seong Jin Cho , Gwangsu Kim , Junghyun Lee , Jinwoo Shin , Chang D. Yoo

Deep Active Learning (DAL) has been advocated as a promising method to reduce labeling costs in supervised learning. However, existing evaluations of DAL methods are based on different settings, and their results are controversial. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yu Li , Muxi Chen , Yannan Liu , Daojing He , Qiang Xu

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

Active Learning has received significant attention in the field of machine learning for its potential in selecting the most informative samples for labeling, thereby reducing data annotation costs. However, we show that the reported lifts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Thorben Werner , Johannes Burchert , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) aims to predict both action category and temporal boundary of action instances in untrimmed videos, i.e., start and end time. Fully-supervised solutions are usually adopted in most existing works, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Ding Li , Xuebing Yang , Yongqiang Tang , Chenyang Zhang , Wensheng Zhang