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In this work, we propose an adversarial learning method for reward estimation in reinforcement learning (RL) based task-oriented dialog models. Most of the current RL based task-oriented dialog systems require the access to a reward signal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Bing Liu , Ian Lane

Partial multi-label learning (PML), which tackles the problem of learning multi-label prediction models from instances with overcomplete noisy annotations, has recently started gaining attention from the research community. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Yan Yan , Yuhong Guo

Active learning (AL) techniques optimally utilize a labeling budget by iteratively selecting instances that are most valuable for learning. However, they lack ``prerequisite checks'', i.e., there are no prescribed criteria to pick an AL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Abhishek Ghose , Emma Thuong Nguyen

Federated active learning (FAL) seeks to reduce annotation cost under privacy constraints, yet its effectiveness degrades in realistic settings with severe global class imbalance and highly heterogeneous clients. We conduct a systematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Chen-Chen Zong , Sheng-Jun Huang

Existing adversarial learning approaches mostly use class labels to generate adversarial samples that lead to incorrect predictions, which are then used to augment the training of the model for improved robustness. While some recent works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Minseon Kim , Jihoon Tack , Sung Ju Hwang

Training deep neural networks requires many training samples, but in practice training labels are expensive to obtain and may be of varying quality, as some may be from trusted expert labelers while others might be from heuristics or other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Mostafa Dehghani , Arash Mehrjou , Stephan Gouws , Jaap Kamps , Bernhard Schölkopf

Motivated by applications in protein function prediction, we consider a challenging supervised classification setting in which positive labels are scarce and there are no explicit negative labels. The learning algorithm must thus select…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Marco Frasca , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi

In this paper, a new approach for classification of target task using limited labeled target data as well as enormous unlabeled source data is proposed which is called self-taught learning. The target and source data can be drawn from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Parvin Razzaghi

Learning disentangled representations without supervision or inductive biases, often leads to non-interpretable or undesirable representations. On the other hand, strict supervision requires detailed knowledge of the true generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Vasilis Margonis , Athanasios Davvetas , Iraklis A. Klampanos

Despite significant advancements in active learning and adversarial attacks, the intersection of these two fields remains underexplored, particularly in developing robust active learning frameworks against dynamic adversarial threats. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Ricky Maulana Fajri , Yulong Pei , Lu Yin , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Alleviating noisy pseudo labels remains a key challenge in Semi-Supervised Temporal Action Localization (SS-TAL). Existing methods often filter pseudo labels based on strict conditions, but they typically assess classification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Feixiang Zhou , Bryan Williams , Hossein Rahmani

Adversarial continual learning is effective for continual learning problems because of the presence of feature alignment process generating task-invariant features having low susceptibility to the catastrophic forgetting problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Tanmoy Dam , Mahardhika Pratama , MD Meftahul Ferdaus , Sreenatha Anavatti , Hussein Abbas

While deep learning is a powerful tool for natural language processing (NLP) problems, successful solutions to these problems rely heavily on large amounts of annotated samples. However, manually annotating data is expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Rishi Hazra , Parag Dutta , Shubham Gupta , Mohammed Abdul Qaathir , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Pool-based active learning (AL) aims to optimize the annotation process (i.e., labeling) as the acquisition of annotations is often time-consuming and therefore expensive. For this purpose, an AL strategy queries annotations intelligently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Marek Herde , Denis Huseljic , Bernhard Sick , Adrian Calma

Active learning for classification seeks to reduce the cost of labeling samples by finding unlabeled examples about which the current model is least certain and sending them to an annotator/expert to label. Bayesian theory can provide a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ahmed Bensaoud , Jugal Kalita

Active learning (AL) aims to optimize model training and reduce annotation costs by selecting the most informative samples for labeling. Typically, AL methods rely on the empirical distribution of labeled data to define the decision…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Hui Xiang , Jinqiao Shi , Ting Zhang , Xiaojie Zhao , Yong Liu , Yong Ma

The usage of machine learning models has grown substantially and is spreading into several application domains. A common need in using machine learning models is collecting the data required to train these models. In some cases, labeling a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Chidubem Arachie , Bert Huang

We propose a method for semi-supervised semantic segmentation using an adversarial network. While most existing discriminators are trained to classify input images as real or fake on the image level, we design a discriminator in a fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Wei-Chih Hung , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Yan-Ting Liou , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Extreme classification tasks are multi-label tasks with an extremely large number of labels (tags). These tasks are hard because the label space is usually (i) very large, e.g. thousands or millions of labels, (ii) very sparse, i.e. very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Elham J. Barezi , Iacer Calixto , Kyunghyun Cho , Pascale Fung

Open-set active learning (OSAL) aims to identify informative samples for annotation when unlabeled data may contain previously unseen classes-a common challenge in safety-critical and open-world scenarios. Existing approaches typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chen-Chen Zong , Yu-Qi Chi , Xie-Yang Wang , Yan Cui , Sheng-Jun Huang