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Active learning algorithms automatically identify the most informative samples from large amounts of unlabeled data and tremendously reduce human annotation effort in inducing a machine learning model. In a conventional active learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Varun Totakura , Ankita Singh , Yushun Dong , Shayok Chakraborty

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

Supervised classification algorithms are used to solve a growing number of real-life problems around the globe. Their performance is strictly connected with the quality of labels used in training. Unfortunately, acquiring good-quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Daniel Kałuża , Andrzej Janusz , Dominik Ślęzak

The primary challenge of multi-label active learning, differing it from multi-class active learning, lies in assessing the informativeness of an indefinite number of labels while also accounting for the inherited label correlation. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yuanyuan Qi , Jueqing Lu , Xiaohao Yang , Joanne Enticott , Lan Du

In many practical applications of learning algorithms, unlabeled data is cheap and abundant whereas labeled data is expensive. Active learning algorithms developed to achieve better performance with lower cost. Usually Representativeness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-26 Hossein Ghafarian , Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi

We study the problem of reducing the amount of labeled training data required to train supervised classification models. We approach it by leveraging Active Learning, through sequential selection of examples which benefit the model most.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Fedor Zhdanov

Learning and understanding the typical patterns in the daily activities and routines of people from low-level sensory data is an important problem in many application domains such as building smart environments, or providing intelligent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Truyen Tran , Hung Bui , Svetha Venkatesh

Labeling data (e.g., labeling the people, objects, actions and scene in images) comprehensively and efficiently is a widely needed but challenging task. Numerous models were proposed to label various data and many approaches were designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Mu Yuan , Lan Zhang , Xiang-Yang Li , Hui Xiong

Active learning methods increase classification quality by means of user feedback. An important subcategory is active learning for outlier detection with one-class classifiers. While various methods in this category exist, selecting one for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Holger Trittenbach , Adrian Englhardt , Klemens Böhm

Datasets often incorporate various functional patterns related to different aspects or regimes, which are typically not equally present throughout the dataset. We propose a novel, general-purpose partitioning algorithm that utilizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Marius Tacke , Matthias Busch , Kevin Linka , Christian J. Cyron , Roland C. Aydin

Remote sensing data is crucial for applications ranging from monitoring forest fires and deforestation to tracking urbanization. Most of these tasks require dense pixel-level annotations for the model to parse visual information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Shasvat Desai , Debasmita Ghose

This paper examines the effectiveness of combining active learning and transfer learning for anomaly detection in cross-domain time-series data. Our results indicate that there is an interaction between clustering and active learning and in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 John D. Kelleher , Matthew Nicholson , Rahul Agrahari , Clare Conran

Graph neural networks have achieved significant success in representation learning. However, the performance gains come at a cost; acquiring comprehensive labeled data for training can be prohibitively expensive. Active learning mitigates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Xiaoting Li , Yuhang Wu , Vineeth Rakesh , Yusan Lin , Hao Yang , Fei Wang

Deep active learning in the presence of outlier examples poses a realistic yet challenging scenario. Acquiring unlabeled data for annotation requires a delicate balance between avoiding outliers to conserve the annotation budget and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Vladan Stojnić , Zakaria Laskar , Giorgos Tolias

Open-set active learning (OSAL) aims to identify informative samples for annotation when unlabeled data may contain previously unseen classes-a common challenge in safety-critical and open-world scenarios. Existing approaches typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chen-Chen Zong , Yu-Qi Chi , Xie-Yang Wang , Yan Cui , Sheng-Jun Huang

Several works in computer vision have demonstrated the effectiveness of active learning for adapting the recognition model when new unlabeled data becomes available. Most of these works consider that labels obtained from the annotator are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sudipta Paul , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

We present a general-purpose active learning scheme for data in metric spaces. The algorithm maintains a collection of neighborhoods of different sizes and uses label queries to identify those that have a strong bias towards one particular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Sanjoy Dasgupta , Yoav Freund

Entity Matching (EM) is a core data cleaning task, aiming to identify different mentions of the same real-world entity. Active learning is one way to address the challenge of scarce labeled data in practice, by dynamically collecting the…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Venkata Vamsikrishna Meduri , Lucian Popa , Prithviraj Sen , Mohamed Sarwat

In this paper, we proposed a new clustering-based active learning framework, namely Active Learning using a Clustering-based Sampling (ALCS), to address the shortage of labeled data. ALCS employs a density-based clustering approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Xuyang Yan , Shabnam Nazmi , Biniam Gebru , Mohd Anwar , Abdollah Homaifar , Mrinmoy Sarkar , Kishor Datta Gupta

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