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We consider the problem of teaching via demonstrations in sequential decision-making settings. In particular, we study how to design a personalized curriculum over demonstrations to speed up the learner's convergence. We provide a unified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Gaurav Yengera , Rati Devidze , Parameswaran Kamalaruban , Adish Singla

Models can fail in unpredictable ways during deployment due to task ambiguity, when multiple behaviors are consistent with the provided training data. An example is an object classifier trained on red squares and blue circles: when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Alex Tamkin , Dat Nguyen , Salil Deshpande , Jesse Mu , Noah Goodman

This paper presents simple and efficient methods to mitigate sampling bias in active learning while achieving state-of-the-art accuracy and model robustness. We introduce supervised contrastive active learning by leveraging the contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Ranganath Krishnan , Alok Sinha , Nilesh Ahuja , Mahesh Subedar , Omesh Tickoo , Ravi Iyer

We initiate the study of active learning algorithms for classifying strategic agents. Active learning is a well-established framework in machine learning in which the learner selectively queries labels, often achieving substantially higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Maria-Florina Balcan , Hedyeh Beyhaghi

Deep learning-based recommender systems have achieved remarkable success in recent years. However, these methods usually heavily rely on labeled data (i.e., user-item interactions), suffering from problems such as data sparsity and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Mengyuan Jing , Yanmin Zhu , Tianzi Zang , Ke Wang

Adaptive learning often diagnoses precisely yet intervenes weakly, yielding help that is mistimed or misaligned. This study presents evidence supporting an instructor-governed feedback loop that converts concept-level assessment evidence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Amirreza Mehrabi , Jason W. Morphew , Breejha Quezada , N. Sanjay Rebello

We investigate active learning with access to two distinct oracles: Label (which is standard) and Search (which is not). The Search oracle models the situation where a human searches a database to seed or counterexample an existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Alina Beygelzimer , Daniel Hsu , John Langford , Chicheng Zhang

Detecting anomalies is one fundamental aspect of a safety-critical software system, however, it remains a long-standing problem. Numerous branches of works have been proposed to alleviate the complication and have demonstrated their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Hyunsoo Cho , Jinseok Seol , Sang-goo Lee

We study the problem of computer-assisted teaching with explanations. Conventional approaches for machine teaching typically only provide feedback at the instance level e.g., the category or label of the instance. However, it is intuitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Oisin Mac Aodha , Shihan Su , Yuxin Chen , Pietro Perona , Yisong Yue

Contrastive learning-based recommendation algorithms have significantly advanced the field of self-supervised recommendation, particularly with BPR as a representative ranking prediction task that dominates implicit collaborative filtering.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shipeng Song , Bin Liu , Fei Teng , Tianrui Li

Contrastive learning has achieved remarkable success in representation learning via self-supervision in unsupervised settings. However, effectively adapting contrastive learning to supervised learning tasks remains as a challenge in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Qianben Chen , Richong Zhang , Yaowei Zheng , Yongyi Mao

Sketch recognition allows natural and efficient interaction in pen-based interfaces. A key obstacle to building accurate sketch recognizers has been the difficulty of creating large amounts of annotated training data. Several authors have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Erelcan Yanik , Tevfik Metin Sezgin

We present a self-supervised learning method to learn audio and video representations. Prior work uses the natural correspondence between audio and video to define a standard cross-modal instance discrimination task, where a model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Pedro Morgado , Ishan Misra , Nuno Vasconcelos

Complementary-label learning is a weakly supervised learning problem in which each training example is associated with one or multiple complementary labels indicating the classes to which it does not belong. Existing consistent approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Wei Wang , Takashi Ishida , Yu-Jie Zhang , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

While Machine learning gives rise to astonishing results in automated systems, it is usually at the cost of large data requirements. This makes many successful algorithms from machine learning unsuitable for human-machine interaction, where…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Jan Philip Göpfert , Ulrike Kuhl , Lukas Hindemith , Heiko Wersing , Barbara Hammer

Social scientists often classify text documents to use the resulting labels as an outcome or a predictor in empirical research. Automated text classification has become a standard tool, since it requires less human coding. However, scholars…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Mitchell Bosley , Saki Kuzushima , Ted Enamorado , Yuki Shiraito

Recent work studies the supervised online continual learning setting where a learner receives a stream of data whose class distribution changes over time. Distinct from other continual learning settings the learner is presented new samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Nader Asadi , Sudhir Mudur , Eugene Belilovsky

We study the problem of interactively learning a binary classifier using noisy labeling and pairwise comparison oracles, where the comparison oracle answers which one in the given two instances is more likely to be positive. Learning from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 Yichong Xu , Hongyang Zhang , Aarti Singh , Kyle Miller , Artur Dubrawski

Active learning is a label-efficient approach to train highly effective models while interactively selecting only small subsets of unlabelled data for labelling and training. In "open world" settings, the classes of interest can make up a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jifan Zhang , Julian Katz-Samuels , Robert Nowak

Integrating human expertise into machine learning systems often reduces the role of experts to labeling oracles, a paradigm that limits the amount of information exchanged and fails to capture the nuances of human judgment. We address this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Belén Martín-Urcelay , Yoonsang Lee , Matthieu R. Bloch , Christopher J. Rozell