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Labeling a large set of data is expensive. Active learning aims to tackle this problem by asking to annotate only the most informative data from the unlabeled set. We propose a novel active learning approach that utilizes self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 John Seon Keun Yi , Minseok Seo , Jongchan Park , Dong-Geol Choi

Crowdsourcing platforms offer a practical solution to the problem of affordably annotating large datasets for training supervised classifiers. Unfortunately, poor worker performance frequently threatens to compromise annotation reliability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Liyue Zhao , Yu Zhang , Gita Sukthankar

Deep neural networks have great representation power, but typically require large numbers of training examples. This motivates deep active learning methods that can significantly reduce the amount of labeled training data. Empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yinglun Zhu , Robert Nowak

The availability of labelled data is one of the main limitations in machine learning. We can alleviate this using weak supervision: a framework that uses expert-defined rules $\boldsymbol{\lambda}$ to estimate probabilistic labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Samantha Biegel , Rafah El-Khatib , Luiz Otavio Vilas Boas Oliveira , Max Baak , Nanne Aben

Learning algorithms normally assume that there is at most one annotation or label per data point. However, in some scenarios, such as medical diagnosis and on-line collaboration,multiple annotations may be available. In either case,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Yan Yan , Romer Rosales , Glenn Fung , Jennifer Dy

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

The objective of active learning (AL) is to train classification models with less number of labeled instances by selecting only the most informative instances for labeling. The AL algorithms designed for other data types such as images and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-23 Kaushalya Madhawa , Tsuyoshi Murata

Active learning (AL) is a human-and-model-in-the-loop paradigm that iteratively selects informative unlabeled data for human annotation, aiming to improve over random sampling. However, performing AL experiments with human annotations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Katerina Margatina , Nikolaos Aletras

Semi-supervised learning methods are usually employed in the classification of data sets where only a small subset of the data items is labeled. In these scenarios, label noise is a crucial issue, since the noise may easily spread to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Fabricio Aparecido Breve , Liang Zhao , Marcos Gonçalves Quiles

Active learning is the set of techniques for intelligently labeling large unlabeled datasets to reduce the labeling effort. In parallel, recent developments in self-supervised and semi-supervised learning (S4L) provide powerful techniques,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Yao-Chun Chan , Mingchen Li , Samet Oymak

Improper or erroneous labelling can pose a hindrance to reliable generalization for supervised learning. This can have negative consequences, especially for critical fields such as healthcare. We propose an effective new approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Konstantinos Nikolaidis , Thomas Plagemann , Stein Kristiansen , Vera Goebel , Mohan Kankanhalli

We study exact active learning of binary and multiclass classifiers with margin. Given an $n$-point set $X \subset \mathbb{R}^m$, we want to learn any unknown classifier on $X$ whose classes have finite strong convex hull margin, a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Marco Bressan , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Silvio Lattanzi , Andrea Paudice , Maximilian Thiessen

Multiple categories of objects are present in most images. Treating this as a multi-class classification is not justified. We treat this as a multi-label classification problem. In this paper, we further aim to minimize the supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Rajat , Munender Varshney , Pravendra Singh , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Selective prediction aims to learn a reliable model that abstains from making predictions when uncertain. These predictions can then be deferred to humans for further evaluation. As an everlasting challenge for machine learning, in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Jiefeng Chen , Jinsung Yoon , Sayna Ebrahimi , Sercan Arik , Somesh Jha , Tomas Pfister

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 strategies respond to the costly labelling task in a supervised classification by selecting the most useful unlabelled examples in training a predictive model. Many conventional active learning algorithms focus on refining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Djallel Bouneffouf

Weakly supervised learning aims to reduce the cost of labeling data by using expert-designed labeling rules. However, existing methods require experts to design effective rules in a single shot, which is difficult in the absence of proper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Giannis Karamanolakis , Daniel Hsu , Luis Gravano

Some of the most severe bottlenecks preventing widespread development of machine learning models for human behavior include a dearth of labeled training data and difficulty of acquiring high quality labels. Active learning is a paradigm for…

Contrastive pretraining techniques for text classification has been largely studied in an unsupervised setting. However, oftentimes labeled data from related tasks which share label semantics with current task is available. We hypothesize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Samujjwal Ghosh , Subhadeep Maji , Maunendra Sankar Desarkar

Annotating data is a time-consuming and costly task, but it is inherently required for supervised machine learning. Active Learning (AL) is an established method that minimizes human labeling effort by iteratively selecting the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Julius Gonsior , Tim Rieß , Anja Reusch , Claudio Hartmann , Maik Thiele , Wolfgang Lehner