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This paper addresses significant obstacles that arise from the widespread use of machine learning models in the insurance industry, with a specific focus on promoting fairness. The initial challenge lies in effectively leveraging unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-21 Romuald Elie , Caroline Hillairet , François Hu , Marc Juillard

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

What sorts of structure might enable a learner to discover classes from unlabeled data? Traditional approaches rely on feature-space similarity and heroic assumptions on the data. In this paper, we introduce unsupervised learning under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Manley Roberts , Pranav Mani , Saurabh Garg , Zachary C. Lipton

Adversarial learning has demonstrated good performance in the unsupervised domain adaptation setting, by learning domain-invariant representations. However, recent work has shown limitations of this approach when label distributions differ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Remi Tachet , Han Zhao , Yu-Xiang Wang , Geoff Gordon

Active learning (AL) seeks to reduce annotation costs by selecting the most informative samples for labeling, making it particularly valuable in resource-constrained settings. However, traditional evaluation methods, which focus solely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Julia Machnio , Mads Nielsen , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

Active learning aims to alleviate the amount of labor involved in data labeling by automating the selection of unlabeled samples via an acquisition function. For example, variational adversarial active learning (VAAL) leverages an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Zongyao Lyu , William J. Beksi

Generalizing deep neural networks to new target domains is critical to their real-world utility. In practice, it may be feasible to get some target data labeled, but to be cost-effective it is desirable to select a maximally-informative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Viraj Prabhu , Arjun Chandrasekaran , Kate Saenko , Judy Hoffman

In a typical multi-label setting, a picture contains on average few positive labels, and many negative ones. This positive-negative imbalance dominates the optimization process, and can lead to under-emphasizing gradients from positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Emanuel Ben-Baruch , Tal Ridnik , Nadav Zamir , Asaf Noy , Itamar Friedman , Matan Protter , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

Human annotation of training samples is expensive, laborious, and sometimes challenging, especially for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. To reduce the labeling cost and enhance the sample efficiency, Active Learning (AL) technique…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Xuesong Wang

An active learner is given a hypothesis class, a large set of unlabeled examples and the ability to interactively query labels to an oracle of a subset of these examples; the goal of the learner is to learn a hypothesis in the class that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-19 Chicheng Zhang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

We study the theoretical advantages of active learning over passive learning. Specifically, we prove that, in noise-free classifier learning for VC classes, any passive learning algorithm can be transformed into an active learning algorithm…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-08-09 Steve Hanneke

Training deep object detectors demands expensive bounding box annotation. Active learning (AL) is a promising technique to alleviate the annotation burden. Performing AL at box-level for object detection, i.e., selecting the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jingyi Liao , Xun Xu , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Lile Cai

Improving performance in multiple domains is a challenging task, and often requires significant amounts of data to train and test models. Active learning techniques provide a promising solution by enabling models to select the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Anand Gokul Mahalingam , Aayush Shah , Akshay Gulati , Royston Mascarenhas , Rakshitha Panduranga

Modern systems that rely on Machine Learning (ML) for predictive modelling, may suffer from the cold-start problem: supervised models work well but, initially, there are no labels, which are costly or slow to obtain. This problem is even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Ricardo Barata , Miguel Leite , Ricardo Pacheco , Marco O. P. Sampaio , João Tiago Ascensão , Pedro Bizarro

Active learning (AL) algorithms aim to identify an optimal subset of data for annotation, such that deep neural networks (DNN) can achieve better performance when trained on this labeled subset. AL is especially impactful in industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Zeyad Ali Sami Emam , Hong-Min Chu , Ping-Yeh Chiang , Wojciech Czaja , Richard Leapman , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

Active learning for regression reduces labeling costs by selecting the most informative samples. Improved Greedy Sampling is a prominent method that balances feature-space diversity and output-space uncertainty using a static,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-12 Simon D. Nguyen , Troy Russo , Kentaro Hoffman , Tyler H. McCormick

In multiple instance multiple label learning, each sample, a bag, consists of multiple instances. To alleviate labeling complexity, each sample is associated with a set of bag-level labels leaving instances within the bag unlabeled. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Tam Nguyen , Raviv Raich

Deep learning algorithms can fare poorly when the training dataset suffers from heavy class-imbalance but the testing criterion requires good generalization on less frequent classes. We design two novel methods to improve performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Kaidi Cao , Colin Wei , Adrien Gaidon , Nikos Arechiga , Tengyu Ma

We consider the problem of learning when obtaining the training labels is costly, which is usually tackled in the literature using active-learning techniques. These approaches provide strategies to choose the examples to label before or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Gabriella Contardo , Ludovic Denoyer , Thierry Artieres

While many active learning papers assume that the learner can simply ask for a label and receive it, real annotation often presents a mismatch between the form of a label (say, one among many classes), and the form of an annotation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Peiyun Hu , Zachary C. Lipton , Anima Anandkumar , Deva Ramanan