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Deep learning models, including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various computer vision tasks such as object classification, detection, segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Vipul Arya , S. H. Shabbeer Basha , Srikrishna U N , Sunainha Vijay , Snehasis Mukherjee

Fairness-aware learning aims at constructing classifiers that not only make accurate predictions, but also do not discriminate against specific groups. It is a fast-growing area of machine learning with far-reaching societal impact.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Eugenia Iofinova , Nikola Konstantinov , Christoph H. Lampert

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

Active learning (AL) seeks to reduce annotation costs by selecting the most informative samples for labeling, making it particularly valuable in resource-constrained settings. However, traditional evaluation methods, which focus solely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Julia Machnio , Mads Nielsen , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

Unsupervised image clustering methods often introduce alternative objectives to indirectly train the model and are subject to faulty predictions and overconfident results. To overcome these challenges, the current research proposes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Sungwon Park , Sungwon Han , Sundong Kim , Danu Kim , Sungkyu Park , Seunghoon Hong , Meeyoung Cha

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

Active learning (AL) reduces human annotation costs for machine learning systems by strategically selecting the most informative unlabeled data for annotation, but performing it individually may still be insufficient due to restricted data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jun Zhang , Jue Wang , Huan Li , Zhongle Xie , Ke Chen , Lidan Shou

Fairness of decision-making algorithms is an increasingly important issue. In this paper, we focus on spectral clustering with group fairness constraints, where every demographic group is represented in each cluster proportionally as in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Francesco Tonin , Alex Lambert , Johan A. K. Suykens , Volkan Cevher

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

Numerous algorithms have been produced for the fundamental problem of clustering under many different notions of fairness. Perhaps the most common family of notions currently studied is group fairness, in which proportional group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Seyed A. Esmaeili , Sharmila Duppala , John P. Dickerson , Brian Brubach

Classification algorithms to mine data stream have been extensively studied in recent years. However, a lot of these algorithms are designed for supervised learning which requires labeled instances. Nevertheless, the labeling of the data is…

Federated learning (FL) allows agents to jointly train a global model without sharing their local data. However, due to the heterogeneous nature of local data, it is challenging to optimize or even define fairness of the trained global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Wenda Chu , Chulin Xie , Boxin Wang , Linyi Li , Lang Yin , Arash Nourian , Han Zhao , Bo Li

This paper studies a new problem, \emph{active learning with partial labels} (ALPL). In this setting, an oracle annotates the query samples with partial labels, relaxing the oracle from the demanding accurate labeling process. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Fei Zhang , Yunjie Ye , Lei Feng , Zhongwen Rao , Jieming Zhu , Marcus Kalander , Chen Gong , Jianye Hao , Bo Han

Positive-unlabeled learning (PUL) aims at learning a binary classifier from only positive and unlabeled training data. Even though real-world applications often involve imbalanced datasets where the majority of examples belong to one class,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Emilio Dorigatti , Jann Goschenhofer , Benjamin Schubert , Mina Rezaei , Bernd Bischl

Active learning (AL) has found wide applications in medical image segmentation, aiming to alleviate the annotation workload and enhance performance. Conventional uncertainty-based AL methods, such as entropy and Bayesian, often rely on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Siteng Ma , Haochang Wu , Aonghus Lawlor , Ruihai Dong

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging paradigm in machine learning without exposing clients' raw data. In practical scenarios with numerous clients, encouraging fair and efficient client participation in federated learning is of utmost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Simin Javaherian , Sanjeev Panta , Shelby Williams , Md Sirajul Islam , Li Chen

Active Learning (AL) is a machine learning technique where the model selectively queries the most informative data points for labeling by human experts. Integrating AL with crowdsourcing leverages crowd diversity to enhance data labeling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Shaojie Hou , Yuandou Wang , Zhiming Zhao

Training a quantum machine learning model generally requires a large labeled dataset, which incurs high labeling and computational costs. To reduce such costs, a selective training strategy, called active learning (AL), chooses only a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-04 Chen Ding , Xiao-Yue Xu , Yun-Fei Niu , Shuo Zhang , Wan-Su Bao , He-Liang Huang

Deep learning (DL) algorithms rely on massive amounts of labeled data. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) and active learning (AL) aim to reduce this label complexity by leveraging unlabeled data or carefully acquiring labels, respectively. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Seo Taek Kong , Soomin Jeon , Dongbin Na , Jaewon Lee , Hong-Seok Lee , Kyu-Hwan Jung

In this letter, we introduce deep active learning (AL) for multi-label classification (MLC) problems in remote sensing (RS). In particular, we investigate the effectiveness of several AL query functions for MLC of RS images. Unlike the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Lars Möllenbrok , Gencer Sumbul , Begüm Demir