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In real-world applications, one often encounters ambiguously labeled data, where different annotators assign conflicting class labels. Partial-label learning allows training classifiers in this weakly supervised setting, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Tobias Fuchs , Florian Kalinke , Klemens Böhm

Active learning (AL) is a widely-used training strategy for maximizing predictive performance subject to a fixed annotation budget. In AL one iteratively selects training examples for annotation, often those for which the current model is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 David Lowell , Zachary C. Lipton , Byron C. Wallace

In critical machine learning applications, ensuring fairness is essential to avoid perpetuating social inequities. In this work, we address the challenges of reducing bias and improving accuracy in data-scarce environments, where the cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Romain Camilleri , Andrew Wagenmaker , Jamie Morgenstern , Lalit Jain , Kevin Jamieson

Active learning enables efficient model training by leveraging interactions between machine learning agents and human annotators. We study and propose a novel framework that formulates batch active learning from the sparse approximation's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Maohao Shen , Bowen Jiang , Jacky Yibo Zhang , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

Deep neural networks usually require large labeled datasets for training to achieve state-of-the-art performance in many tasks, such as image classification and natural language processing. Although a lot of data is created each day by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Jing Lin , Ryan Luley , Kaiqi Xiong

In the world of big data, large but costly to label datasets dominate many fields. Active learning, a semi-supervised alternative to the standard PAC-learning model, was introduced to explore whether adaptive labeling could learn concepts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Max Hopkins , Daniel M. Kane , Shachar Lovett

Models that can actively seek out the best quality training data hold the promise of more accurate, adaptable, and efficient machine learning. Active learning techniques often tend to prefer examples that are the most difficult to classify.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Savya Khosla , Chew Kin Whye , Jordan T. Ash , Cyril Zhang , Kenji Kawaguchi , Alex Lamb

At its core, this thesis aims to enhance the practicality of deep learning by improving the label and training efficiency of deep learning models. To this end, we investigate data subset selection techniques, specifically active learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Andreas Kirsch

Active learning seeks to build the best possible model with a budget of labelled data by sequentially selecting the next point to label. However the training set is no longer \textit{iid}, violating the conditions required by existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-14 Jack Goetz , Ambuj Tewari

An active learning (AL) algorithm seeks to construct an effective classifier with a minimal number of labeled examples in a bootstrapping manner. While standard AL heuristics, such as selecting those points for annotation for which a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Ishani Mondal , Debasis Ganguly

Gathering labeled data to train well-performing machine learning models is one of the critical challenges in many applications. Active learning aims at reducing the labeling costs by an efficient and effective allocation of costly labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Daniel Kottke , Marek Herde , Christoph Sandrock , Denis Huseljic , Georg Krempl , Bernhard Sick

Active learning (AL) is a principled strategy to reduce annotation cost in data-hungry deep learning. However, existing AL algorithms focus almost exclusively on unimodal data, overlooking the substantial annotation burden in multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Jiancheng Zhang , Yinglun Zhu

Obtaining labeled data for machine learning tasks can be prohibitively expensive. Active learning mitigates this issue by exploring the unlabeled data space and prioritizing the selection of data that can best improve the model performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Vineeth Rakesh , Swayambhoo Jain

We study the problem of active learning with the added twist that the learner is assisted by a helpful teacher. We consider the following natural interaction protocol: At each round, the learner proposes a query asking for the label of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Chaoqi Wang , Adish Singla , Yuxin Chen

Active learning is of great interest for many practical applications, especially in industry and the physical sciences, where there is a strong need to minimize the number of costly experiments necessary to train predictive models. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Maryam Pardakhti , Nila Mandal , Anson W. K. Ma , Qian Yang

To ensure that the data collected from human subjects is entrusted with a secret, rival labels are introduced to conceal the information provided by the participants on purpose. The corresponding learning task can be formulated as a noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Cheng Chen , Yueming Lyu , Ivor W. Tsang

While many active learning papers assume that the learner can simply ask for a label and receive it, real annotation often presents a mismatch between the form of a label (say, one among many classes), and the form of an annotation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Peiyun Hu , Zachary C. Lipton , Anima Anandkumar , Deva Ramanan

Anomaly detection attempts at finding examples that deviate from the expected behaviour. Usually, anomaly detection is tackled from an unsupervised perspective because anomalous labels are rare and difficult to acquire. However, the lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Lorenzo Perini , Daniele Giannuzzi , Jesse Davis

The robustness of supervised deep learning-based medical image classification is significantly undermined by label noise. Although several methods have been proposed to enhance classification performance in the presence of noisy labels,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bidur Khanal , Tianhong Dai , Binod Bhattarai , Cristian Linte

Active learning is the process of training a model with limited labeled data by selecting a core subset of an unlabeled data pool to label. The large scale of data sets used in deep learning forces most sample selection strategies to employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Rafid Mahmood , Sanja Fidler , Marc T. Law