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Active learning (AL) aims to enable training high performance classifiers with low annotation cost by predicting which subset of unlabelled instances would be most beneficial to label. The importance of AL has motivated extensive research,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Kunkun Pang , Mingzhi Dong , Yang Wu , Timothy Hospedales

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…

Attention mechanism is effective in both focusing the deep learning models on relevant features and interpreting them. However, attentions may be unreliable since the networks that generate them are often trained in a weakly-supervised…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-11 Jay Heo , Hae Beom Lee , Saehoon Kim , Juho Lee , Kwang Joon Kim , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang

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

Despite the vast body of literature on Active Learning (AL), there is no comprehensive and open benchmark allowing for efficient and simple comparison of proposed samplers. Additionally, the variability in experimental settings across the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 W. Jonas , A. Abraham , L. Dreyfus-Schmidt

Active learning aims to select a small subset of data for annotation such that a classifier learned on the data is highly accurate. This is usually done using heuristic selection methods, however the effectiveness of such methods is limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Meng Fang , Yuan Li , Trevor Cohn

Active Learning (AL) has been a powerful paradigm for improving model efficiency and performance by selecting the most informative data points for labeling and training. In recent active learning frameworks, Large Language Models (LLMs)…

Active learning (AL) in open set scenarios presents a novel challenge of identifying the most valuable examples in an unlabeled data pool that comprises data from both known and unknown classes. Traditional methods prioritize selecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Chen-Chen Zong , Ye-Wen Wang , Kun-Peng Ning , Hai-Bo Ye , Sheng-Jun Huang

The automation of extracting argument structures faces a pair of challenges on (1) encoding long-term contexts to facilitate comprehensive understanding, and (2) improving data efficiency since constructing high-quality argument structures…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Xinyu Hua , Lu Wang

The success of deep active learning hinges on the choice of an effective acquisition function, which ranks not yet labeled data points according to their expected informativeness. Many acquisition functions are (partly) based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Mohamadsadegh Khosravani , Sandra Zilles

Active learning aims to select samples to be annotated that yield the largest performance improvement for the learning algorithm. Many methods approach this problem by measuring the informativeness of samples and do this based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Javad Zolfaghari Bengar , Bogdan Raducanu , Joost van de Weijer

The rapid growth of chemical literature has generated vast amounts of unstructured data, where reaction information is particularly valuable for applications such as reaction predictions and drug design. However, the prohibitive cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Simin Yu , Sufia Fathima

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) enables policy learning from static data but often suffers from poor coverage of the state-action space and distributional shift problems. This problem can be addressed by allowing limited online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Soumyadeep Roy , Shashwat Kushwaha , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Active learning for sentence understanding aims at discovering informative unlabeled data for annotation and therefore reducing the demand for labeled data. We argue that the typical uncertainty sampling method for active learning is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Dongyu Ru , Jiangtao Feng , Lin Qiu , Hao Zhou , Mingxuan Wang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu , Lei Li

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

Medical image analysis requires substantial labeled data for model training, yet expert annotation is expensive and time-consuming. Active learning (AL) addresses this challenge by strategically selecting the most informative samples for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Ifrat Ikhtear Uddin , Longwei Wang , Xiao Qin , Yang Zhou , KC Santosh

How can we find a general way to choose the most suitable samples for training a classifier? Even with very limited prior information? Active learning, which can be regarded as an iterative optimization procedure, plays a key role to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Bo Du , Zengmao Wang , Lefei Zhang , Liangpei Zhang , Wei Liu , Jialie Shen , Dacheng Tao

Active learning (AL) uses a data selection algorithm to select useful training samples to minimize annotation cost. This is now an essential tool for building low-resource syntactic analyzers such as part-of-speech (POS) taggers. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Aditi Chaudhary , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Zaid Sheikh , Graham Neubig

Dataset bias is one of the prevailing causes of unfairness in machine learning. Addressing fairness at the data collection and dataset preparation stages therefore becomes an essential part of training fairer algorithms. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Frédéric Branchaud-Charron , Parmida Atighehchian , Pau Rodríguez , Grace Abuhamad , Alexandre Lacoste

Active learning for sentence understanding attempts to reduce the annotation cost by identifying the most informative examples. Common methods for active learning use either uncertainty or diversity sampling in the pool-based scenario. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Hanshan Zhang , Zhen Zhang , Hongfei Jiang , Yang Song