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Vulnerability detection is crucial for identifying security weaknesses in software systems. However, training effective machine learning models for this task is often constrained by the high cost and expertise required for data annotation.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xiang Lan , Tim Menzies , Bowen Xu

Recent years, the database committee has attempted to develop automatic database management systems. Although some researches show that the applying AI to data management is a significant and promising direction, there still exists many…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Yu Yan , Hongzhi Wang , Jian Ma , Jian Geng , Yuzhuo Wang

Actively sampled data can have very different characteristics than passively sampled data. Therefore, it's promising to investigate using different inference procedures during AL than are used during passive learning (PL). This general idea…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-18 Michael Bloodgood , K. Vijay-Shanker

Classification algorithms aim to predict an unknown label (e.g., a quality class) for a new instance (e.g., a product). Therefore, training samples (instances and labels) are used to deduct classification hypotheses. Often, it is relatively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Daniel Kottke , Jim Schellinger , Denis Huseljic , Bernhard Sick

Deep learning (DL) based diagnostics systems can provide accurate and robust quantitative analysis in digital pathology. These algorithms require large amounts of annotated training data which is impractical in pathology due to the high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Tahsin Reasat , Asif Sushmit , David S. Smith

Partial label learning is a type of weakly supervised learning, where each training instance corresponds to a set of candidate labels, among which only one is true. In this paper, we introduce ProPaLL, a novel probabilistic approach to this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Łukasz Struski , Jacek Tabor , Bartosz Zieliński

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

Quantum machine learning, as an extension of classical machine learning that harnesses quantum mechanics, facilitates effiient learning from data encoded in quantum states. Training a quantum neural network typically demands a substantial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Yongcheng Ding , Yue Ban , Mikel Sanz , José D. Martín-Guerrero , Xi Chen

Active learning has the potential to be especially useful for messy, uncurated pools where datapoints vary in relevance to the target task. However, state-of-the-art approaches to this problem currently rely on using fixed, unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Kianoosh Ashouritaklimi , Tom Rainforth

Supervised machine learning and deep learning require a large amount of labeled data, which data scientists obtain in a manual, and time-consuming annotation process. To mitigate this challenge, Active Learning (AL) proposes promising data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Philipp Kohl , Nils Freyer , Yoka Krämer , Henri Werth , Steffen Wolf , Bodo Kraft , Matthias Meinecke , Albert Zündorf

Machine learning methods usually rely on large sample size to have good performance, while it is difficult to provide labeled set in many applications. Pool-based active learning methods are there to detect, among a set of unlabeled data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Lies Hadjadj , Emilie Devijver , Remi Molinier , Massih-Reza Amini

While the state-of-the-art performance on entity resolution (ER) has been achieved by deep learning, its effectiveness depends on large quantities of accurately labeled training data. To alleviate the data labeling burden, Active Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Youcef Nafa , Qun Chen , Zhaoqiang Chen , Xingyu Lu , Haiyang He , Tianyi Duan , Zhanhuai Li

Existing methods for optimal control struggle to deal with the complexity commonly encountered in real-world systems, including dimensionality, process error, model bias and data heterogeneity. Instead of tackling these system complexities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Felipe Montealegre-Mora , Marcus Lapeyrolerie , Melissa Chapman , Abigail G. Keller , Carl Boettiger

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

Deep Learning (DL) has had an immense success in the recent past, leading to state-of-the-art results in various domains such as image recognition and natural language processing. One of the reasons for this success is the increasing size…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Multi-task learning is central to many real-world applications. Unfortunately, obtaining labelled data for all tasks is time-consuming, challenging, and expensive. Active Learning (AL) can be used to reduce this burden. Existing techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Nikita Durasov , Nik Dorndorf , Pascal Fua

We present the first active learning tool for fine-grained 3D part labeling, a problem which challenges even the most advanced deep learning (DL) methods due to the significant structural variations among the small and intricate parts. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Fenggen Yu , Yiming Qian , Francisca Gil-Ureta , Brian Jackson , Eric Bennett , Hao Zhang

Flocking control is a significant problem in multi-agent systems such as multi-agent unmanned aerial vehicles and multi-agent autonomous underwater vehicles, which enhances the cooperativity and safety of agents. In contrast to traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yunbo Qiu , Yuzhu Zhan , Yue Jin , Jian Wang , Xudong Zhang

Active Learning techniques are used to tackle learning problems where obtaining training labels is costly. In this work we use Meta-Active Learning to learn to select a subset of samples from a pool of unsupervised input for further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Ignasi Mas , Josep Ramon Morros , Veronica Vilaplana

Instead of randomly acquiring training data points, Uncertainty-based Active Learning (UAL) operates by querying the label(s) of pivotal samples from an unlabeled pool selected based on the prediction uncertainty, thereby aiming at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Amir Hossein Rahmati , Mingzhou Fan , Ruida Zhou , Nathan M. Urban , Byung-Jun Yoon , Xiaoning Qian