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Federated learning (FL) has been intensively investigated in terms of communication efficiency, privacy, and fairness. However, efficient annotation, which is a pain point in real-world FL applications, is less studied. In this project, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jin-Hyun Ahn , Kyungsang Kim , Jeongwan Koh , Quanzheng Li

Active learning (AL) aims to improve model performance within a fixed labeling budget by choosing the most informative data points to label. Existing AL focuses on the single-domain setting, where all data come from the same domain (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Guang-Yuan Hao , Hengguan Huang , Haotian Wang , Jie Gao , Hao Wang

Using unlabeled data to regularize the machine learning models has demonstrated promise for improving safety and reliability in detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) data. Harnessing the power of unlabeled in-the-wild data is non-trivial due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Xuefeng Du , Zhen Fang , Ilias Diakonikolas , Yixuan Li

Active learning aims to reduce labeling efforts by selectively asking humans to annotate the most important data points from an unlabeled pool and is an example of human-machine interaction. Though active learning has been extensively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Hongjing Zhang , S. S. Ravi , Ian Davidson

We consider an active learning setting where the algorithm has access to a large pool of unlabeled data and a small pool of labeled data. In each iteration, the algorithm chooses few unlabeled data points and obtains their labels from an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Muni Sreenivas Pydi , Vishnu Suresh Lokhande

Despite the availability of large datasets for tasks like image classification and image-text alignment, labeled data for more complex recognition tasks, such as detection and segmentation, is less abundant. In particular, for instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 François Porcher , Camille Couprie , Marc Szafraniec , Jakob Verbeek

Several works in computer vision have demonstrated the effectiveness of active learning for adapting the recognition model when new unlabeled data becomes available. Most of these works consider that labels obtained from the annotator are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sudipta Paul , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Auxiliary Learning (AL) is a form of multi-task learning in which a model trains on auxiliary tasks to boost performance on a primary objective. While AL has improved generalization across domains such as navigation, image classification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Judah Goldfeder , Matthew So , Hod Lipson

Active learning is a machine learning approach for reducing the data labeling effort. Given a pool of unlabeled samples, it tries to select the most useful ones to label so that a model built from them can achieve the best possible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Dongrui Wu

Anomaly detection aims at identifying data points that show systematic deviations from the majority of data in an unlabeled dataset. A common assumption is that clean training data (free of anomalies) is available, which is often violated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Chen Qiu , Aodong Li , Marius Kloft , Maja Rudolph , Stephan Mandt

Regression problems are pervasive in real-world applications. Generally a substantial amount of labeled samples are needed to build a regression model with good generalization ability. However, many times it is relatively easy to collect a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Dongrui Wu , Chin-Teng Lin , Jian Huang

In the era of data-driven intelligence, the paradox of data abundance and annotation scarcity has emerged as a critical bottleneck in the advancement of machine learning. This paper gives a detailed overview of Active Learning (AL), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Chiung-Yi Tseng , Junhao Song , Ziqian Bi , Tianyang Wang , Chia Xin Liang , Xinyuan Song , Ming Liu

Active Learning (AL) and Few Shot Learning (FSL) are two label-efficient methods which have achieved excellent results recently. However, most prior arts in both learning paradigms fail to explore the wealth of the vast unlabelled data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Nico Schiavone , Jingyi Wang , Shuangzhi Li , Roger Zemp , Xingyu Li

Given an unsupervised outlier detection task, how should one select a detection algorithm as well as its hyperparameters (jointly called a model)? Unsupervised model selection is notoriously difficult, in the absence of hold-out validation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Martin Q. Ma , Yue Zhao , Xiaorong Zhang , Leman Akoglu

Active learning is an effective technique for reducing the labeling cost by improving data efficiency. In this work, we propose a novel batch acquisition strategy for active learning in the setting where the model training is performed in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Zalán Borsos , Marco Tagliasacchi , Andreas Krause

Developed to alleviate prohibitive labeling costs, active learning (AL) methods aim to reduce label complexity in supervised learning. While recent work has demonstrated the benefit of using AL in combination with large pre-trained language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Josip Jukić , Jan Šnajder

The need for labeled data is among the most common and well-known practical obstacles to deploying deep learning algorithms to solve real-world problems. The current generation of learning algorithms requires a large volume of data labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Aaron Reite , Scott Kangas , Zackery Steck , Steven Goley , Jonathan Von Stroh , Steven Forsyth

Active learning (AL) is a subfield of machine learning (ML) in which a learning algorithm could achieve good accuracy with less training samples by interactively querying a user/oracle to label new data points. Pool-based AL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Xueying Zhan , Antoni Bert Chan

Unsupervised active learning has attracted increasing attention in recent years, where its goal is to select representative samples in an unsupervised setting for human annotating. Most existing works are based on shallow linear models by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Changsheng Li , Handong Ma , Zhao Kang , Ye Yuan , Xiao-Yu Zhang , Guoren Wang

Active learning aims to develop label-efficient algorithms by querying the most informative samples to be labeled by an oracle. The design of efficient training methods that require fewer labels is an important research direction that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Ali Mottaghi , Serena Yeung