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Supervised machine learning has become the cornerstone of today's data-driven society, increasing the need for labeled data. However, the process of acquiring labels is often expensive and tedious. One possible remedy is to use active…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Josip Jukić , Fran Jelenić , Miroslav Bićanić , Jan Šnajder

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 methods create an optimized labeled training set from unlabeled data. We introduce a novel Online Active Deep Learning method for Medical Image Analysis. We extend our MedAL active learning framework to present new results…

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

Learning semantic segmentation requires pixel-wise annotations, which can be time-consuming and expensive. To reduce the annotation cost, we propose a superpixel-based active learning (AL) framework, which collects a dominant label per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Hoyoung Kim , Minhyeon Oh , Sehyun Hwang , Suha Kwak , Jungseul Ok

Active Learning (AL) is increasingly important in a broad range of applications. Two main AL principles to obtain accurate classification with few labeled data are refinement of the current decision boundary and exploration of poorly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Jens Roeder , Boaz Nadler , Kevin Kunzmann , Fred A. Hamprecht

Active learning is a machine learning method aiming at optimal design for model training. At variance with supervised learning, which labels all samples, active learning provides an improved model by labeling samples with maximal…

Quantum machine learning, as an extension of classical machine learning that harnesses quantum mechanics, facilitates effiient learning from data encoded in quantum states. Training a quantum neural network typically demands a substantial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Yongcheng Ding , Yue Ban , Mikel Sanz , José D. Martín-Guerrero , Xi Chen

Active Learning (AL) addresses the high costs of collecting human annotations by strategically annotating the most informative samples. However, for subjective NLP tasks, incorporating a wide range of perspectives in the annotation process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Michiel van der Meer , Neele Falk , Pradeep K. Murukannaiah , Enrico Liscio

Active Learning (AL) techniques aim to minimize the training data required to train a model for a given task. Pool-based AL techniques start with a small initial labeled pool and then iteratively pick batches of the most informative samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Akshay L Chandra , Sai Vikas Desai , Chaitanya Devaguptapu , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Supervised neural approaches are hindered by their dependence on large, meticulously annotated datasets, a requirement that is particularly cumbersome for sequential tasks. The quality of annotations tends to deteriorate with the transition…

Training a quantum machine learning model generally requires a large labeled dataset, which incurs high labeling and computational costs. To reduce such costs, a selective training strategy, called active learning (AL), chooses only a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-04 Chen Ding , Xiao-Yue Xu , Yun-Fei Niu , Shuo Zhang , Wan-Su Bao , He-Liang Huang

Active learning (AL) concerns itself with learning a model from as few labelled data as possible through actively and iteratively querying an oracle with selected unlabelled samples. In this paper, we focus on analyzing a popular type of AL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Minjie Xu , Gary Kazantsev

Active Learning (AL) addresses the crucial challenge of enabling machines to efficiently gather labeled examples through strategic queries. Among the many AL strategies, Uncertainty Sampling (US) stands out as one of the most widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Po-Yi Lu , Yi-Jie Cheng , Chun-Liang Li , Hsuan-Tien Lin

This paper proposes asal, a new GAN based active learning method that generates high entropy samples. Instead of directly annotating the synthetic samples, ASAL searches similar samples from the pool and includes them for training. Hence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Christoph Mayer , Radu Timofte

In many real-world machine learning applications, unlabeled data can be easily obtained, but it is very time-consuming and/or expensive to label them. So, it is desirable to be able to select the optimal samples to label, so that a good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Ziang Liu , Dongrui Wu

Active learning (AL), which aims to construct an effective training set by iteratively curating the most formative unlabeled data for annotation, has been widely used in low-resource tasks. Most active learning techniques in classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yun Luo , Zhen Yang , Fandong Meng , Yingjie Li , Fang Guo , Qinglin Qi , Jie Zhou , Yue Zhang

Active Learning (AL) aims to reduce annotation costs by strategically selecting the most informative samples for labeling. However, most active learning methods struggle in the low-budget regime where only a few labeled examples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Netta Shafir , Guy Hacohen , Daphna Weinshall

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be state-of-the-art models for supervised computer vision tasks, such as image classification. However, large labeled data sets are generally needed for the training and validation of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Patrick Hemmer , Niklas Kühl , Jakob Schöffer

Deep learning has achieved widespread success in medical image analysis, leading to an increasing demand for large-scale expert-annotated medical image datasets. Yet, the high cost of annotating medical images severely hampers the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Haoran Wang , Qiuye Jin , Shiman Li , Siyu Liu , Manning Wang , Zhijian Song