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Inspired by the concept of active learning, we propose active inference$\unicode{x2013}$a methodology for statistical inference with machine-learning-assisted data collection. Assuming a budget on the number of labels that can be collected,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-09 Tijana Zrnic , Emmanuel J. Candès

Active learning (AL) optimizes data labeling efficiency by selecting the most informative instances for annotation. A key component in this procedure is an acquisition function that guides the selection process and identifies the suitable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Abdul Hameed Azeemi , Ihsan Ayyub Qazi , Agha Ali Raza

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

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

Neural Network-based active learning (NAL) is a cost-effective data selection technique that utilizes neural networks to select and train on a small subset of samples. While existing work successfully develops various effective or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Dake Bu , Wei Huang , Taiji Suzuki , Ji Cheng , Qingfu Zhang , Zhiqiang Xu , Hau-San Wong

Classification algorithms aim to predict an unknown label (e.g., a quality class) for a new instance (e.g., a product). Therefore, training samples (instances and labels) are used to deduct classification hypotheses. Often, it is relatively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Daniel Kottke , Jim Schellinger , Denis Huseljic , Bernhard Sick

Active learning algorithms automatically identify the most informative samples from large amounts of unlabeled data and tremendously reduce human annotation effort in inducing a machine learning model. In a conventional active learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Varun Totakura , Ankita Singh , Yushun Dong , Shayok Chakraborty

Since the preparation of labeled data for training semantic segmentation networks of point clouds is a time-consuming process, weakly supervised approaches have been introduced to learn from only a small fraction of data. These methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Gengxin Liu , Oliver van Kaick , Hui Huang , Ruizhen Hu

Active learning is a promising paradigm to reduce the labeling cost by strategically requesting labels to improve model performance. However, existing active learning methods often rely on expensive acquisition function to compute,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Zixin Ding , Si Chen , Ruoxi Jia , Yuxin Chen

Active learning for object detection is conventionally achieved by applying techniques developed for classification in a way that aggregates individual detections into image-level selection criteria. This is typically coupled with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Michael Laielli , Giscard Biamby , Dian Chen , Ritwik Gupta , Adam Loeffler , Phat Dat Nguyen , Ross Luo , Trevor Darrell , Sayna Ebrahimi

We present novel active learning strategies dedicated to providing a solution to the cold start stage, i.e. initializing the classification of a large set of data with no attached labels. Moreover, proposed strategies are designed to handle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Etienne Brangbour , Pierrick Bruneau , Thomas Tamisier , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

We propose using active learning based techniques to further improve the state-of-the-art semi-supervised learning MixMatch algorithm. We provide a thorough empirical evaluation of several active-learning and baseline methods, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Shuang Song , David Berthelot , Afshin Rostamizadeh

Training high-quality instance segmentation models requires an abundance of labeled images with instance masks and classifications, which is often expensive to procure. Active learning addresses this challenge by striving for optimum…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Ke Yu , Stephen Albro , Giulia DeSalvo , Suraj Kothawade , Abdullah Rashwan , Sasan Tavakkol , Kayhan Batmanghelich , Xiaoqi Yin

Optimal design for model training is a critical topic in machine learning. Active Learning aims at obtaining improved models by querying samples with maximum uncertainty according to the estimation model for artificially labeling; this has…

Supervised classification algorithms are used to solve a growing number of real-life problems around the globe. Their performance is strictly connected with the quality of labels used in training. Unfortunately, acquiring good-quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Daniel Kałuża , Andrzej Janusz , Dominik Ślęzak

Image segmentation is one of the most essential biomedical image processing problems for different imaging modalities, including microscopy and X-ray in the Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT) domain. However, annotating biomedical images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Ziyuan Zhao , Zeng Zeng , Kaixin Xu , Cen Chen , Cuntai Guan

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

Active Learning (AL) is a user-interactive approach aimed at reducing annotation costs by selecting the most crucial examples to label. Although AL has been extensively studied for image classification tasks, the specific scenario of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Leah Bar , Boaz Lerner , Nir Darshan , Rami Ben-Ari

In stream-based active learning, the learning procedure typically has access to a stream of unlabeled data instances and must decide for each instance whether to label it and use it for training or to discard it. There are numerous active…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Michael Katz , Eli Kravchik

We analyze the problem of active covering, where the learner is given an unlabeled dataset and can sequentially label query examples. The objective is to label query all of the positive examples in the fewest number of total label queries.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Heinrich Jiang , Afshin Rostamizadeh