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When we can not assume a large amount of annotated data , active learning is a good strategy. It consists in learning a model on a small amount of annotated data (annotation budget) and in choosing the best set of points to annotate in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Umang Aggarwal , Adrian Popescu , Céline Hudelot

Active learning (AL) is an effective approach to select the most informative samples to label so as to reduce the annotation cost. Existing AL methods typically work under the closed-set assumption, i.e., all classes existing in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Linhao Qu , Yingfan Ma , Zhiwei Yang , Manning Wang , Zhijian Song

Deep learning is currently reaching outstanding performances on different tasks, including image classification, especially when using large neural networks. The success of these models is tributary to the availability of large collections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Mingyuan Jiu , Xuguang Song , Hichem Sahbi , Shupan Li , Yan Chen , Wei Guo , Lihua Guo , Mingliang Xu

Active learning aims to develop label-efficient algorithms by sampling the most representative queries to be labeled by an oracle. We describe a pool-based semi-supervised active learning algorithm that implicitly learns this sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Samarth Sinha , Sayna Ebrahimi , Trevor Darrell

The data efficiency of learning-based algorithms is more and more important since high-quality and clean data is expensive as well as hard to collect. In order to achieve high model performance with the least number of samples, active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Wen-Yen Chang , Wen-Huan Chiang , Shao-Hao Lu , Tingfan Wu , Min Sun

This study uses controlled simulations with known ground-truth parameters to evaluate how Distributional Latent Variable Models (DLVM) and Bayesian Distributional Active LEarning (DALE) perform in comparison to conventional Independent…

Deep active learning (AL) selects batches of instances for annotation to avoid retraining deep neural networks (DNNs) after each new label. Employing a naive top-$b$ selection can result in a batch of redundant (similar) instances. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Denis Huseljic , Marek Herde , Lukas Rauch , Paul Hahn , Zhixin Huang , Daniel Kottke , Stephan Vogt , Bernhard Sick

Labeled data can be expensive to acquire in several application domains, including medical imaging, robotics, and computer vision. To efficiently train machine learning models under such high labeling costs, active learning (AL) judiciously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Konstantinos D. Polyzos , Qin Lu , Georgios B. Giannakis

Label efficiency has become an increasingly important objective in deep learning applications. Active learning aims to reduce the number of labeled examples needed to train deep networks, but the empirical performance of active learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jifan Zhang , Shuai Shao , Saurabh Verma , Robert Nowak

Active learning aims to reduce the high labeling cost involved in training machine learning models on large datasets by efficiently labeling only the most informative samples. Recently, deep active learning has shown success on various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Sudhanshu Mittal , Maxim Tatarchenko , Özgün Çiçek , Thomas Brox

While reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising performance, its sample complexity continues to be a substantial hurdle, restricting its broader application across a variety of domains. Imitation learning (IL) utilizes oracles to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xuefeng Liu , Takuma Yoneda , Rick L. Stevens , Matthew R. Walter , Yuxin Chen

Active learning allows machine learning models to be trained using fewer labels while retaining similar performance to traditional supervised learning. An active learner selects the most informative data points, requests their labels, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Zac Pullar-Strecker , Katharina Dost , Eibe Frank , Jörg Wicker

Compared to reinforcement learning, imitation learning (IL) is a powerful paradigm for training agents to learn control policies efficiently from expert demonstrations. However, in most cases, obtaining demonstration data is costly and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Naijun Liu , Tao Lu , Yinghao Cai , Boyao Li , Shuo Wang

Embodied agents, such as robots and virtual characters, must continuously select actions to execute tasks effectively, solving complex sequential decision-making problems. Given the difficulty of designing such controllers manually,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pedro Santana

Active Learning (AL) methods seek to improve classifier performance when labels are expensive or scarce. We consider two central questions: Where does AL work? How much does it help? To address these questions, a comprehensive experimental…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-07 Lewis Evans , Niall M. Adams , Christoforos Anagnostopoulos

Human behavior expression and experience are inherently multi-modal, and characterized by vast individual and contextual heterogeneity. To achieve meaningful human-computer and human-robot interactions, multi-modal models of the users…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Ognjen Rudovic , Meiru Zhang , Bjorn Schuller , Rosalind W. Picard

Active learning aims to obtain a classifier of high accuracy by using fewer label requests in comparison to passive learning by selecting effective queries. Many active learning methods have been developed in the past two decades, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Cem Orhan , Öznur Taştan

In many real-world machine learning applications, unlabeled samples are easy to obtain, but it is expensive and/or time-consuming to label them. Active learning is a common approach for reducing this data labeling effort. It optimally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ziang Liu , Dongrui Wu

Active learning (AL) aims to reduce labeling costs by querying the examples most beneficial for model learning. While the effectiveness of AL for fine-tuning transformer-based pre-trained language models (PLMs) has been demonstrated, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Fran Jelenić , Josip Jukić , Nina Drobac , Jan Šnajder

Policies for partially observed Markov decision processes can be efficiently learned by imitating policies for the corresponding fully observed Markov decision processes. Unfortunately, existing approaches for this kind of imitation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Andrew Warrington , J. Wilder Lavington , Adam Ścibior , Mark Schmidt , Frank Wood