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Even though Active Learning (AL) is widely studied, it is rarely applied in contexts outside its own scientific literature. We posit that the reason for this is AL's high computational cost coupled with the comparatively small lifts it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Thorben Werner , Lars Schmidt-Thieme , Vijaya Krishna Yalavarthi

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be state-of-the-art models for supervised computer vision tasks, such as image classification. However, large labeled data sets are generally needed for the training and validation of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Patrick Hemmer , Niklas Kühl , Jakob Schöffer

Active learning aims to alleviate the amount of labor involved in data labeling by automating the selection of unlabeled samples via an acquisition function. For example, variational adversarial active learning (VAAL) leverages an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Zongyao Lyu , William J. Beksi

Semi-supervised classification based on active learning has made significant progress, but the existing methods often ignore the uncertainty estimation (or reliability) of the prediction results during the learning process, which makes it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Shenkai Zhao , Xinao Zhang , Lipeng Pan , Xiaobin Xu , Danilo Pelusi

In many real-world machine learning applications, unlabeled data can be easily obtained, but it is very time-consuming and/or expensive to label them. So, it is desirable to be able to select the optimal samples to label, so that a good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Ziang Liu , Dongrui Wu

Active Learning methods create an optimized labeled training set from unlabeled data. We introduce a novel Online Active Deep Learning method for Medical Image Analysis. We extend our MedAL active learning framework to present new results…

Active learning(AL) has recently gained popularity for deep learning(DL) models. This is due to efficient and informative sampling, especially when the learner requires large-scale labelled datasets. Commonly, the sampling and training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Razvan Caramalau , Binod Bhattarai , Danail Stoyanov , Tae-Kyun Kim

Deep learning models for natural language processing rely heavily on high-quality labeled datasets. However, existing labeling approaches often struggle to balance label quality with labeling cost. To address this challenge, we propose…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Guozheng Li , Ao Wang , Shaoxiang Wang , Yu Zhang , Pengcheng Cao , Yang Bai , Chi Harold Liu

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

Deep active learning (DAL) seeks to reduce annotation costs by enabling the model to actively query instance annotations from which it expects to learn the most. Despite extensive research, there is currently no standardized evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Lukas Rauch , Matthias Aßenmacher , Denis Huseljic , Moritz Wirth , Bernd Bischl , Bernhard Sick

The performance of deep learning models in remote sensing (RS) strongly depends on the availability of high-quality labeled data. However, collecting large-scale annotations is costly and time-consuming, while vast amounts of unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wei Huang , Zhitong Xiong , Chenying Liu , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Deep learning methods have started to dominate the research progress of video-based person re-identification (re-id). However, existing methods mostly consider supervised learning, which requires exhaustive manual efforts for labelling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Yanbei Chen , Xiatian Zhu , Shaogang Gong

Active learning (AL) algorithms aim to identify an optimal subset of data for annotation, such that deep neural networks (DNN) can achieve better performance when trained on this labeled subset. AL is especially impactful in industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Zeyad Ali Sami Emam , Hong-Min Chu , Ping-Yeh Chiang , Wojciech Czaja , Richard Leapman , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

State-of-the-art deep learning models are often trained with a large amount of costly labeled training data. However, requiring exhaustive manual annotations may degrade the model's generalizability in the limited-label regime.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yanbei Chen , Massimiliano Mancini , Xiatian Zhu , Zeynep Akata

The objective of active learning (AL) is to train classification models with less number of labeled instances by selecting only the most informative instances for labeling. The AL algorithms designed for other data types such as images and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-23 Kaushalya Madhawa , Tsuyoshi Murata

Detecting changes in longitudinal medical imaging using deep learning requires a substantial amount of accurately labeled data. However, labeling these images is notably more costly and time-consuming than labeling other image types, as it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Siteng Ma , Honghui Du , Prateek Mathur , Brendan S. Kelly , Ronan P. Killeen , Aonghus Lawlor , Ruihai Dong

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

To address the annotation burden in LiDAR-based 3D object detection, active learning (AL) methods offer a promising solution. However, traditional active learning approaches solely rely on a small amount of labeled data to train an initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zengran Wang , Yanan Zhang , Jiaxin Chen , Di Huang

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

Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown unprecedented success in the field of computer vision, especially on challenging image classification tasks by relying on a universal approach, i.e., training a deep model on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Johan Phan , Massimiliano Ruocco , Francesco Scibilia