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Active learning aims to achieve greater accuracy with less training data by selecting the most useful data samples from which it learns. Single-criterion based methods (i.e., informativeness and representativeness based methods) are simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Xueying Zhan , Qing Li , Antoni B. Chan

Active Learning (AL) addresses the high costs of collecting human annotations by strategically annotating the most informative samples. However, for subjective NLP tasks, incorporating a wide range of perspectives in the annotation process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Michiel van der Meer , Neele Falk , Pradeep K. Murukannaiah , Enrico Liscio

Image segmentation is one of the most essential biomedical image processing problems for different imaging modalities, including microscopy and X-ray in the Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT) domain. However, annotating biomedical images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Ziyuan Zhao , Zeng Zeng , Kaixin Xu , Cen Chen , Cuntai Guan

Test-Time Optimization enables models to adapt to new data during inference by updating parameters on-the-fly. Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have explored learning prompts at test time to improve performance in downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Dhruv Sarkar , Aprameyo Chakrabartty , Bibhudatta Bhanja

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

In multiple instance multiple label learning, each sample, a bag, consists of multiple instances. To alleviate labeling complexity, each sample is associated with a set of bag-level labels leaving instances within the bag unlabeled. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Tam Nguyen , Raviv Raich

Active Learning has received significant attention in the field of machine learning for its potential in selecting the most informative samples for labeling, thereby reducing data annotation costs. However, we show that the reported lifts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Thorben Werner , Johannes Burchert , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Active learning (AL) is designed to construct a high-quality labeled dataset by iteratively selecting the most informative samples. Such sampling heavily relies on data representation, while recently pre-training is popular for robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Beichen Zhang , Liang Li , Zheng-Jun Zha , Jiebo Luo , Qingming Huang

Neural Network-based active learning (NAL) is a cost-effective data selection technique that utilizes neural networks to select and train on a small subset of samples. While existing work successfully develops various effective or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Dake Bu , Wei Huang , Taiji Suzuki , Ji Cheng , Qingfu Zhang , Zhiqiang Xu , Hau-San Wong

Cross domain recommender system constitutes a powerful method to tackle the cold-start and sparsity problem by aggregating and transferring user preferences across multiple category domains. Therefore, it has great potential to improve…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Pan Li , Zhichao Jiang , Maofei Que , Yao Hu , Alexander Tuzhilin

Machine learning in medical imaging during clinical routine is impaired by changes in scanner protocols, hardware, or policies resulting in a heterogeneous set of acquisition settings. When training a deep learning model on an initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Matthias Perkonigg , Johannes Hofmanninger , Christian Herold , Helmut Prosch , Georg Langs

Annotating bounding boxes is costly and limits the scalability of object detection. This challenge is compounded by the need to preserve high accuracy while minimizing manual effort in real-world applications. Prior active learning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rashi Sharma , Justin Timothy C. Bersamin , Karthikk Subramanian

The field of Natural Language Generation (NLG) suffers from a severe shortage of labeled data due to the extremely expensive and time-consuming process involved in manual annotation. A natural approach for coping with this problem is active…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yotam Perlitz , Ariel Gera , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer , Dafna Sheinwald , Noam Slonim , Liat Ein-Dor

Deep learning has achieved significant advancements in medical image segmentation, but existing models still face challenges in accurately segmenting lesion regions. The main reason is that some lesion regions in medical images have unclear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Lexin Fang , Yunyang Xu , Xiang Ma , Xuemei Li , Caiming Zhang

Active learning aims to select samples to be annotated that yield the largest performance improvement for the learning algorithm. Many methods approach this problem by measuring the informativeness of samples and do this based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Javad Zolfaghari Bengar , Bogdan Raducanu , Joost van de Weijer

State-of-the-art methods for semantic segmentation are based on deep neural networks trained on large-scale labeled datasets. Acquiring such datasets would incur large annotation costs, especially for dense pixel-level prediction tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Lile Cai , Xun Xu , Lining Zhang , Chuan-Sheng Foo

Although significant progress achieved, multi-label classification is still challenging due to the complexity of correlations among different labels. Furthermore, modeling the relationships between input and some (dull) classes further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Junbing Li , Changqing Zhang , Pengfei Zhu , Baoyuan Wu , Lei Chen , Qinghua Hu

Spurious correlations in real-world datasets cause machine learning models to rely on irrelevant patterns, undermining reliability, generalization, and fairness. Active learning offers a promising way to address this failure mode by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Kin Whye Chew , Jingxian Wang

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

We propose Cartography Active Learning (CAL), a novel Active Learning (AL) algorithm that exploits the behavior of the model on individual instances during training as a proxy to find the most informative instances for labeling. CAL is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Mike Zhang , Barbara Plank