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Evaluating clustering quality with reliable evaluation metrics like normalized mutual information (NMI) requires labeled data that can be expensive to annotate. We focus on the underexplored problem of estimating clustering quality with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Nihal V. Nayak , Ethan R. Elenberg , Clemens Rosenbaum

Efficient data annotation remains a critical challenge in machine learning, particularly for object detection tasks requiring extensive labeled data. Active learning (AL) has emerged as a promising solution to minimize annotation costs by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Somraj Gautam , Nachiketa Purohit , Gaurav Harit

In recent years, deep learning (DL) techniques have provided state-of-the-art performance on different medical imaging tasks. However, the availability of good quality annotated medical data is very challenging due to involved time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Muhammad Ahtazaz Ahsan , Adnan Qayyum , Junaid Qadir , Adeel Razi

Training a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model often involves fixing a taxonomy of entity types. However, requirements evolve and we might need the NER model to recognize additional entity types. A simple approach is to re-annotate entire…

Recent advances in deep learning have resulted in great successes in various applications. Although semi-supervised or unsupervised learning methods have been widely investigated, the performance of deep neural networks highly depends on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Seong Tae Kim , Farrukh Mushtaq , Nassir Navab

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

Deep learning has profoundly impacted domains such as computer vision and natural language processing by uncovering complex patterns in vast datasets. However, the reliance on extensive labeled data poses significant challenges, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Harshini Mridula Mohan , Maanya Manjunath , Vipul Arya , S. H. Shabbeer Basha , Nitin Cheekatla

Clinical settings are often characterized by abundant unlabelled data and limited labelled data. This is typically driven by the high burden placed on oracles (e.g., physicians) to provide annotations. One way to mitigate this burden is via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Dani Kiyasseh , Tingting Zhu , David A. Clifton

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

In the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Named Entity Recognition (NER) is recognized as a critical technology, employed across a wide array of applications. Traditional methodologies for annotating datasets for NER models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yuji Naraki , Ryosuke Yamaki , Yoshikazu Ikeda , Takafumi Horie , Kotaro Yoshida , Ryotaro Shimizu , Hiroki Naganuma

An increasing number of public datasets have shown a transformative impact on automated medical segmentation. However, these datasets are often with varying label quality, ranging from manual expert annotations to AI-generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yixiong Chen , Zongwei Zhou , Alan Yuille

The labeling cost of large number of bounding boxes is one of the main challenges for training modern object detectors. To reduce the dependence on expensive bounding box annotations, we propose a new semi-supervised object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 JIyang Gao , Jiang Wang , Shengyang Dai , Li-Jia Li , Ram Nevatia

Forgetting presents a significant challenge during incremental training, making it particularly demanding for contemporary AI systems to assimilate new knowledge in streaming data environments. To address this issue, most approaches in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Monica Millunzi , Lorenzo Bonicelli , Angelo Porrello , Jacopo Credi , Petter N. Kolm , Simone Calderara

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a challenging task that extracts named entities from unstructured text data, including news, articles, social comments, etc. The NER system has been studied for decades. Recently, the development of Deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Jiuniu Wang , Wenjia Xu , Xingyu Fu , Guangluan Xu , Yirong Wu

As deep learning continues to evolve, the need for data efficiency becomes increasingly important. Considering labeling large datasets is both time-consuming and expensive, active learning (AL) provides a promising solution to this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yifeng Wang , Xueying Zhan , Siyu Huang

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

The rapid growth of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), as well as the accompanied opportunities in Data-Driven Healthcare (DDH), has been attracting widespread interests and attentions. Recent progress in the design and applications of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Zhengping Che , Yu Cheng , Shuangfei Zhai , Zhaonan Sun , Yan Liu

Annotating datasets for object detection is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor. To minimize this burden, active learning (AL) techniques are employed to select the most informative samples for annotation within a constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Chenhongyi Yang , Lichao Huang , Elliot J. Crowley

In real-world data labeling applications, annotators often provide imperfect labels. It is thus common to employ multiple annotators to label data with some overlap between their examples. We study active learning in such settings, aiming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Hui Wen Goh , Jonas Mueller

We study the problem of named entity recognition (NER) from electronic medical records, which is one of the most fundamental and critical problems for medical text mining. Medical records which are written by clinicians from different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Zhenghui Wang , Yanru Qu , Liheng Chen , Jian Shen , Weinan Zhang , Shaodian Zhang , Yimei Gao , Gen Gu , Ken Chen , Yong Yu