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Active sensing refers to the process of choosing or tuning a set of sensors in order to track an underlying system in an efficient and accurate way. In a wireless environment, among the several kinds of features extracted by traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Alessandro Biason , Urbashi Mitra , Michele Zorzi

Diffusion models manifest evident benefits across diverse domains, yet their high sampling cost, requiring dozens of sequential model evaluations, remains a major limitation. Prior efforts mainly accelerate sampling via optimized solvers or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Haoran Zhao , Tong Bai , Lei Huang , Xiaoyu Liang

Though quite challenging, leveraging large-scale unlabeled or partially labeled data in learning systems (e.g., model/classifier training) has attracted increasing attentions due to its fundamental importance. To address this problem, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Keze Wang , Liang Lin , Xiaopeng Yan , Ziliang Chen , Dongyu Zhang , Lei Zhang

Active learning is a decision-making process. In both abstract and physical settings, active learning demands both analysis and action. This is a review of active learning in robotics, focusing on methods amenable to the demands of embodied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Annalisa T. Taylor , Thomas A. Berrueta , Todd D. Murphey

Subsampling is commonly used to mitigate costs associated with data acquisition, such as time or energy requirements, motivating the development of algorithms for estimating the fully-sampled signal of interest $x$ from partially observed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Oisin Nolan , Tristan S. W. Stevens , Wessel L. van Nierop , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Automated, data-driven quality management systems, which facilitate the transformation of data into useable information, are desired to enhance decision-making processes. Integration of accurate, reliable, and straightforward approaches…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Wenying Ji

In many industrial applications, obtaining labeled observations is not straightforward as it often requires the intervention of human experts or the use of expensive testing equipment. In these circumstances, active learning can be highly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-19 Davide Cacciarelli , Murat Kulahci , John Sølve Tyssedal

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

This work explores the effect of noisy sample selection in active learning strategies. We show on both synthetic problems and real-life use-cases that knowledge of the sample noise can significantly improve the performance of active…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-25 Alexandre Abraham , Léo Dreyfus-Schmidt

Classical learning assumes the learner is given a labeled data sample, from which it learns a model. The field of Active Learning deals with the situation where the learner begins not with a training sample, but instead with resources that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Omid Madani , Daniel J. Lizotte , Russell Greiner

Causal confusion is a phenomenon where an agent learns a policy that reflects imperfect spurious correlations in the data. Such a policy may falsely appear to be optimal during training if most of the training data contain such spurious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Gunshi Gupta , Tim G. J. Rudner , Rowan Thomas McAllister , Adrien Gaidon , Yarin Gal

Sampling-based motion planning is a well-established approach in autonomous driving, valued for its modularity and analytical tractability. In complex urban scenarios, however, uniform or heuristic sampling often produces many infeasible or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Korbinian Moller , Roland Stroop , Mattia Piccinini , Alexander Langmann , Johannes Betz

In machine learning, active class selection (ACS) algorithms aim to actively select a class and ask the oracle to provide an instance for that class to optimize a classifier's performance while minimizing the number of requests. In this…

Active learning (AL) is a widely-used training strategy for maximizing predictive performance subject to a fixed annotation budget. In AL one iteratively selects training examples for annotation, often those for which the current model is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 David Lowell , Zachary C. Lipton , Byron C. Wallace

Power-law scaling indicates that large-scale training with uniform sampling is prohibitively slow. Active learning methods aim to increase data efficiency by prioritizing learning on the most relevant examples. Despite their appeal, these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Talfan Evans , Shreya Pathak , Hamza Merzic , Jonathan Schwarz , Ryutaro Tanno , Olivier J. Henaff

In the machine learning domain, active learning is an iterative data selection algorithm for maximizing information acquisition and improving model performance with limited training samples. It is very useful, especially for the industrial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-24 Xiaowei Yue , Yuchen Wen , Jeffrey H. Hunt , Jianjun Shi

Active learning in computer experiments aims at allocating resources in an intelligent manner based on the already observed data to satisfy certain objectives such as emulating or optimizing a computationally expensive function. There are…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-24 Difan Song , V. Roshan Joseph

Sparse sampling schemes have the potential to dramatically reduce image acquisition time while simultaneously reducing radiation damage to samples. However, for a sparse sampling scheme to be useful it is important that we are able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 G. M. Dilshan P. Godaliyadda , Dong Hye Ye , Michael D. Uchic , Michael A. Groeber , Gregery T. Buzzard , Charles A. Bouman

Predictive process monitoring is a subfield of process mining that aims to estimate case or event features for running process instances. Such predictions are of significant interest to the process stakeholders. However, most of the…

Sample efficiency is one of the most critical issues for online reinforcement learning (RL). Existing methods achieve higher sample efficiency by adopting model-based methods, Q-ensemble, or better exploration mechanisms. We, instead,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Jiafei Lyu , Le Wan , Zongqing Lu , Xiu Li