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Active learning (AL) aims to improve model performance within a fixed labeling budget by choosing the most informative data points to label. Existing AL focuses on the single-domain setting, where all data come from the same domain (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Guang-Yuan Hao , Hengguan Huang , Haotian Wang , Jie Gao , Hao Wang

Active learning (AL) repeatedly trains the classifier with the minimum labeling budget to improve the current classification model. The training process is usually supervised by an uncertainty evaluation strategy. However, the uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Xiaofeng Cao

Active learning can be defined as iterations of data labeling, model training, and data acquisition, until sufficient labels are acquired. A traditional view of data acquisition is that, through iterations, knowledge from human labels and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Beong-woo Kwak , Youngwook Kim , Yu Jin Kim , Seung-won Hwang , Jinyoung Yeo

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) aims to predict both action category and temporal boundary of action instances in untrimmed videos, i.e., start and end time. Fully-supervised solutions are usually adopted in most existing works, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Ding Li , Xuebing Yang , Yongqiang Tang , Chenyang Zhang , Wensheng Zhang

Active Learning (AL) and Semi-supervised Learning are two techniques that have been studied to reduce the high cost of deep learning by using a small amount of labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data. To improve the accuracy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Jaeseung Lim , Jongkeun Na , Nojun Kwak

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

Training deep object detectors demands expensive bounding box annotation. Active learning (AL) is a promising technique to alleviate the annotation burden. Performing AL at box-level for object detection, i.e., selecting the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jingyi Liao , Xun Xu , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Lile Cai

Active learning is an established technique to reduce the labeling cost to build high-quality machine learning models. A core component of active learning is the acquisition function that determines which data should be selected to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Yuejun Guo , Qiang Hu , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

The effectiveness of active learning hinges on the choice of the acquisition criterion by which a learning algorithm selects potentially informative data points whose label is subsequently queried. This paper proposes a novel gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Mohamadsadegh Khosravani , Sandra Zilles

Active learning (AL) aims to minimize labeling efforts for data-demanding deep neural networks (DNNs) by selecting the most representative data points for annotation. However, currently used methods are ill-equipped to deal with biased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Denis Gudovskiy , Alec Hodgkinson , Takuya Yamaguchi , Sotaro Tsukizawa

One of the biggest challenges that complicates applied supervised machine learning is the need for huge amounts of labeled data. Active Learning (AL) is a well-known standard method for efficiently obtaining labeled data by first labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Julius Gonsior , Maik Thiele , Wolfgang Lehner

Deep learning approaches achieve state-of-the-art performance for classifying radiology images, but rely on large labelled datasets that require resource-intensive annotation by specialists. Both semi-supervised learning and active learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Shafa Balaram , Cuong M. Nguyen , Ashraf Kassim , Pavitra Krishnaswamy

In recent years, deep learning has become a breakthrough technique in assisting medical image diagnosis. Supervised learning using convolutional neural networks (CNN) provides state-of-the-art performance and has served as a benchmark for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Tao Wang , Xinlin Zhang , Yuanbo Zhou , Junlin Lan , Tao Tan , Min Du , Qinquan Gao , Tong Tong

Active Learning (AL) aims to reduce the labeling burden by interactively selecting the most informative samples from a pool of unlabeled data. While there has been extensive research on improving AL query methods in recent years, some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Carsten T. Lüth , Till J. Bungert , Lukas Klein , Paul F. Jaeger

Autonomous driving systems require huge amounts of data to train. Manual annotation of this data is time-consuming and prohibitively expensive since it involves human resources. Therefore, active learning emerged as an alternative to ease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Javad Zolfaghari Bengar , Abel Gonzalez-Garcia , Gabriel Villalonga , Bogdan Raducanu , Hamed H. Aghdam , Mikhail Mozerov , Antonio M. Lopez , Joost van de Weijer

Active learning (AL) is a learning paradigm where an active learner has to train a model (e.g., a classifier) which is in principal trained in a supervised way, but in AL it has to be done by means of a data set with initially unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Adrian Calma , Tobias Reitmaier , Bernhard Sick , Paul Lukowicz , Mark Embrechts

In self-supervised robotic learning, agents acquire data through active interaction with their environment, incurring costs such as energy use, human oversight, and experimental time. To mitigate these, sample-efficient exploration is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Mehmet Arda Eren , Erhan Oztop

Training robust deep learning (DL) systems for medical image classification or segmentation is challenging due to limited images covering different disease types and severity. We propose an active learning (AL) framework to select most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Behzad Bozorgtabar , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Mauricio Reyes

This paper introduces an active learning (AL) framework for anomalous sound detection (ASD) in machine condition monitoring system. Typically, ASD models are trained solely on normal samples due to the scarcity of anomalous data, leading to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Tuan Vu Ho , Kota Dohi , Yohei Kawaguchi

In supervised learning, acquiring labeled training data for a predictive model can be very costly, but acquiring a large amount of unlabeled data is often quite easy. Active learning is a method of obtaining predictive models with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Hideitsu Hino