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This note explores probabilistic sampling weighted by uncertainty in active learning. This method has been previously used and authors have tangentially remarked on its efficacy. The scheme has several benefits: (1) it is computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Vinay Jethava

Node classification in attributed graphs is an important task in multiple practical settings, but it can often be difficult or expensive to obtain labels. Active learning can improve the achieved classification performance for a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Florence Regol , Soumyasundar Pal , Yingxue Zhang , Mark Coates

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in various tasks, but their performance highly relies on a large number of labeled nodes, which typically requires considerable human effort. GNN-based Active Learning (AL) methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Wentao Zhang , Yexin Wang , Zhenbang You , Meng Cao , Ping Huang , Jiulong Shan , Zhi Yang , Bin Cui

Active learning is a practical field of machine learning that automates the process of selecting which data to label. Current methods are effective in reducing the burden of data labeling but are heavily model-reliant. This has led to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Sai Prathyush Katragadda , Tyler Cody , Peter Beling , Laura Freeman

Active learning is a learning strategy whereby the machine learning algorithm actively identifies and labels data points to optimize its learning. This strategy is particularly effective in domains where an abundance of unlabeled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zan-Kai Chong , Hiroyuki Ohsaki , Bryan Ng

Imaging in clinical routine is subject to changing scanner protocols, hardware, or policies in a typically heterogeneous set of acquisition hardware. Accuracy and reliability of deep learning models suffer from those changes as data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Matthias Perkonigg , Johannes Hofmanninger , Georg Langs

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

Active Learning (AL) has garnered significant interest across various application domains where labeling training data is costly. AL provides a framework that helps practitioners query informative samples for annotation by oracles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Pouya Ahadi , Blair Winograd , Camille Zaug , Karunesh Arora , Lijun Wang , Kamran Paynabar

We consider the problem of wisely using a limited budget to label a small subset of a large unlabeled dataset. We are motivated by the NLP problem of word sense disambiguation. For any word, we have a set of candidate labels from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Jason Hartford , Kevin Leyton-Brown , Hadas Raviv , Dan Padnos , Shahar Lev , Barak Lenz

An active learner is given a class of models, a large set of unlabeled examples, and the ability to interactively query labels of a subset of these examples; the goal of the learner is to learn a model in the class that fits the data well.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Sham Kakade , Praneeth Netrapalli , Sujay Sanghavi

Aligning large language models (LLMs) depends on high-quality datasets of human preference labels, which are costly to collect. Although active learning has been studied to improve sample efficiency relative to passive collection, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yao Zhao , Kwang-Sung Jun

Active learning (AL) concerns itself with learning a model from as few labelled data as possible through actively and iteratively querying an oracle with selected unlabelled samples. In this paper, we focus on analyzing a popular type of AL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Minjie Xu , Gary Kazantsev

Active learning aims to reduce labeling efforts by selectively asking humans to annotate the most important data points from an unlabeled pool and is an example of human-machine interaction. Though active learning has been extensively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Hongjing Zhang , S. S. Ravi , Ian Davidson

The ability to train complex and highly effective models often requires an abundance of training data, which can easily become a bottleneck in cost, time, and computational resources. Batch active learning, which adaptively issues batched…

Graph embedding provides an efficient solution for graph analysis by converting the graph into a low-dimensional space which preserves the structure information. In contrast to the graph structure data, the i.i.d. node embedding can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Hongyun Cai , Vincent W. Zheng , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Recently, several studies have investigated active learning (AL) for natural language processing tasks to alleviate data dependency. However, for query selection, most of these studies mainly rely on uncertainty-based sampling, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Yekyung Kim

Large amounts of labeled training data are one of the main contributors to the great success that deep models have achieved in the past. Label acquisition for tasks other than benchmarks can pose a challenge due to requirements of both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Clemens-Alexander Brust , Christoph Käding , Joachim Denzler

Machine learning (ML) is capable of accurate Load Forecasting from complete data. However, there are many uncertainties that affect data collection, leading to sparsity. This article proposed a model called Adaptive Ensemble Learning with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Junying Yang , Gang Lu , Xiaoqing Yan , Peng Xia , Di Wu

Active learning (AL) aims to enable training high performance classifiers with low annotation cost by predicting which subset of unlabelled instances would be most beneficial to label. The importance of AL has motivated extensive research,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Kunkun Pang , Mingzhi Dong , Yang Wu , Timothy Hospedales

Active learning is a promising paradigm to reduce the labeling cost by strategically requesting labels to improve model performance. However, existing active learning methods often rely on expensive acquisition function to compute,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Zixin Ding , Si Chen , Ruoxi Jia , Yuxin Chen