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Active Learning (AL) for semantic segmentation is challenging due to heavy class imbalance and different ways of defining "sample" (pixels, areas, etc.), leaving the interpretation of the data distribution ambiguous. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Amirsaeed Yazdani , Xuelu Li , Vishal Monga

Multi-task learning, in which several tasks are jointly learned by a single model, allows NLP models to share information from multiple annotations and may facilitate better predictions when the tasks are inter-related. This technique,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Guy Rotman , Roi Reichart

Unsupervised domain adaptation has recently emerged as an effective paradigm for generalizing deep neural networks to new target domains. However, there is still enormous potential to be tapped to reach the fully supervised performance. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Binhui Xie , Longhui Yuan , Shuang Li , Chi Harold Liu , Xinjing Cheng , Guoren Wang

Neural networks are known to be data hungry and domain sensitive, but it is nearly impossible to obtain large quantities of labeled data for every domain we are interested in. This necessitates the use of domain adaptation strategies. One…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Zi-Yi Dou , Xinyi Wang , Junjie Hu , Graham Neubig

Generalizing deep neural networks to new target domains is critical to their real-world utility. In practice, it may be feasible to get some target data labeled, but to be cost-effective it is desirable to select a maximally-informative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Viraj Prabhu , Arjun Chandrasekaran , Kate Saenko , Judy Hoffman

Deep Active Learning (DAL) reduces annotation costs by selecting the most informative unlabeled samples during training. As real-world applications become more complex, challenges stemming from distribution shifts (e.g., open-set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Chenkai Wu , Yuanyuan Qi , Xiaohao Yang , Jueqing Lu , Gang Liu , Wray Buntine , Lan Du

Domain divergence plays a significant role in estimating the performance of a model in new domains. While there is a significant literature on divergence measures, researchers find it hard to choose an appropriate divergence for a given NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap , Devamanyu Hazarika , Min-Yen Kan , Roger Zimmermann

Active Learning has received significant attention in the field of machine learning for its potential in selecting the most informative samples for labeling, thereby reducing data annotation costs. However, we show that the reported lifts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Thorben Werner , Johannes Burchert , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Ordering the selection of training data using active learning can lead to improvements in learning efficiently from smaller corpora. We present an exploration of active learning approaches applied to three grounded language problems of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Nisha Pillai , Edward Raff , Francis Ferraro , Cynthia Matuszek

Most real world language problems require learning from heterogenous corpora, raising the problem of learning robust models which generalise well to both similar (in domain) and dissimilar (out of domain) instances to those seen in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Yitong Li , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn

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 (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 is an established technique to reduce the labeling cost to build high-quality machine learning models. A core component of active learning is the acquisition function that determines which data should be selected to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Yuejun Guo , Qiang Hu , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

Active Learning (AL) is a well-known standard method for efficiently obtaining annotated data by first labeling the samples that contain the most information based on a query strategy. In the past, a large variety of such query strategies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Julius Gonsior , Maik Thiele , Wolfgang Lehner

Domain Adaptation (DA) provides an effective way to tackle target-domain tasks by leveraging knowledge learned from source domains. Recent studies have extended this paradigm to Multi-Source Domain Adaptation (MSDA), which exploits multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Juepeng Zheng , Peifeng Zhang , Yibin Wen , Qingmei Li , Yang Zhang , Haohuan Fu

This paper proposes an active learning (AL) algorithm to solve regression problems based on inverse-distance weighting functions for selecting the feature vectors to query. The algorithm has the following features: (i) supports both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Alberto Bemporad

Although active learning (AL) in segmentation tasks enables experts to annotate selected regions of interest (ROIs) instead of entire images, it remains highly challenging, labor-intensive, and cognitively demanding due to the blurry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Md Shazid Islam , Shreyangshu Bera , Sudipta Paul , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Optimizing deep learning models requires large amounts of annotated images, a process that is both time-intensive and costly. Especially for semantic segmentation models in which every pixel must be annotated. A potential strategy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Bart M. van Marrewijk , Charbel Dandjinou , Dan Jeric Arcega Rustia , Nicolas Franco Gonzalez , Boubacar Diallo , Jérôme Dias , Paul Melki , Pieter M. Blok

Deep Learning (DL) requires lots of time and data, resulting in high computational demands. Recently, researchers employ Active Learning (AL) and online distillation to enhance training efficiency and real-time model adaptation. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Michele Boldo , Enrico Martini , Mirco De Marchi , Stefano Aldegheri , Nicola Bombieri

Most domain adaptation methods focus on single-source-single-target adaptation settings. Multi-target domain adaptation is a powerful extension in which a single classifier is learned for multiple unlabeled target domains. To build a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Sudipan Saha , Shan Zhao , Nasrullah Sheikh , Xiao Xiang Zhu