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Active learning, a widely adopted technique for enhancing machine learning models in text and image classification tasks with limited annotation resources, has received relatively little attention in the domain of Named Entity Recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Haocheng Luo , Wei Tan , Ngoc Dang Nguyen , Lan Du

Deep metric learning (DML) based methods have been found very effective for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) in remote sensing (RS). For accurately learning the model parameters of deep neural networks, most of the DML methods require a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Julia Henkel , Genc Hoxha , Gencer Sumbul , Lars Möllenbrok , Begüm Demir

Prediction for ADMET (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion, and Toxicity) plays a crucial role in drug discovery and development, accelerating the screening and optimization of new drugs. Existing methods primarily rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Han Zhang , Fengji Ma , Jiamin Su , Xinyue Yang , Lei Wang , Wen-Cai Ye , Li Liu

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

Pool-based active learning (AL) aims to optimize the annotation process (i.e., labeling) as the acquisition of annotations is often time-consuming and therefore expensive. For this purpose, an AL strategy queries annotations intelligently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Marek Herde , Denis Huseljic , Bernhard Sick , Adrian Calma

Active learning (AL) aims to select the most useful data samples from an unlabeled data pool and annotate them to expand the labeled dataset under a limited budget. Especially, uncertainty-based methods choose the most uncertain samples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Seong Min Kye , Kwanghee Choi , Hyeongmin Byun , Buru Chang

3D object detection has recently received much attention due to its great potential in autonomous vehicle (AV). The success of deep learning based object detectors relies on the availability of large-scale annotated datasets, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jinpeng Lin , Zhihao Liang , Shengheng Deng , Lile Cai , Tao Jiang , Tianrui Li , Kui Jia , Xun Xu

Active Learning (AL) promises to reduce annotation cost by prioritizing informative samples, yet its reliability is undermined when labels are noisy or when the data distribution shifts. In practice, annotators make mistakes, rare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Atharv Goel , Sharat Agarwal , Saket Anand , Chetan Arora

Semantic segmentation of polyps and depth estimation are two important research problems in endoscopic image analysis. One of the main obstacles to conduct research on these research problems is lack of annotated data. Endoscopic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Shrawan Kumar Thapa , Pranav Poudel , Binod Bhattarai , Danail Stoyanov

Imitation learning (IL) has shown strong potential for contact-rich precision insertion tasks. However, its practical deployment is often hindered by covariate shift and the need for continuous expert monitoring to recover from failures…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yiou Huang , Ning Ma , Weichu Zhao , Zinuo Liu , Jun Sun , Qiufeng Wang , Yaran Chen

Active learning (AL) has the potential to drastically reduce annotation costs in 3D biomedical image segmentation, where expert labeling of volumetric data is both time-consuming and expensive. Yet, existing AL methods are unable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Carsten T. Lüth , Jeremias Traub , Kim-Celine Kahl , Till J. Bungert , Lukas Klein , Lars Krämer , Paul F. Jäger , Klaus Maier-Hein , Fabian Isensee

This paper is on active learning where the goal is to reduce the data annotation burden by interacting with a (human) oracle during training. Standard active learning methods ask the oracle to annotate data samples. Instead, we take a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Miriam W. Huijser , Jan C. van Gemert

A fundamental task in science is to design experiments that yield valuable insights about the system under study. Mathematically, these insights can be represented as a utility or risk function that shapes the value of conducting each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Christopher Tosh , Mauricio Tec , Wesley Tansey

Learning semantic segmentation requires pixel-wise annotations, which can be time-consuming and expensive. To reduce the annotation cost, we propose a superpixel-based active learning (AL) framework, which collects a dominant label per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Hoyoung Kim , Minhyeon Oh , Sehyun Hwang , Suha Kwak , Jungseul Ok

Most machine learning and data analytics applications, including performance engineering in software systems, require a large number of annotations and labelled data, which might not be available in advance. Acquiring annotations often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Peter Samoaa , Linus Aronsson , Antonio Longa , Philipp Leitner , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani

Most of the existing learning models, particularly deep neural networks, are reliant on large datasets whose hand-labeling is expensive and time demanding. A current trend is to make the learning of these models frugal and less dependent on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Sebastien Deschamps , Hichem Sahbi

As vast databases of chemical identities become increasingly available, the challenge shifts to how we effectively explore and leverage these resources to study molecular properties. This paper presents an active learning approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Ayana Ghosh , Maxim Ziatdinov , Sergei V. Kalinin

Entity Resolution (ER) is a critical task for data integration, yet state-of-the-art supervised deep learning models remain impractical for many real-world applications due to their need for massive, expensive-to-obtain labeled datasets.…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Dimitrios Karapiperis , Leonidas Akritidis , Panayiotis Bozanis , Vassilios Verykios

Specialized domain knowledge is often necessary to accurately annotate training sets for in-depth analysis, but can be burdensome and time-consuming to acquire from domain experts. This issue arises prominently in automated behavior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Jennifer J. Sun , Ann Kennedy , Eric Zhan , David J. Anderson , Yisong Yue , Pietro Perona

To be effective, state of the art machine learning technology needs large amounts of annotated data. There are numerous compelling applications in healthcare that can benefit from high performance automated decision support systems provided…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-09 Scott Yang , Silvia Lopez , Meysam Golmohammadi , Iyad Obeid , Joseph Picone