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Recent successes of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in a variety of research tasks, however, heavily rely on the large amounts of labeled samples. This may require considerable annotation cost in real-world applications. Fortunately, active…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Qiang Liu , Zhaocheng Liu , Xiaofang Zhu , Yeliang Xiu

Active learning (AL) accelerates scientific discovery by prioritizing the most informative experiments, but traditional machine learning (ML) models used in AL suffer from cold-start limitations and domain-specific feature engineering,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Hongchen Wang , Rafael Espinosa Castañeda , Jay R. Werber , Yao Fehlis , Edward Kim , Jason Hattrick-Simpers

One of the major challenges in training deep architectures for predictive tasks is the scarcity and cost of labeled training data. Active Learning (AL) is one way of addressing this challenge. In stream-based AL, observations are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Andreas Kvistad , Massimiliano Ruocco , Eliezer de Souza da Silva , Erlend Aune

Deep learning (DL) has made significant progress in angle closure classification with anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) images. These AS-OCT images are often acquired by different imaging devices/conditions, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Zhen Qiu , Yifan Zhang , Fei Li , Xiulan Zhang , Yanwu Xu , Mingkui Tan

The Active Subspace (AS) method is a widely used technique for identifying the most influential directions in high-dimensional input spaces that affect the output of a computational model. The standard AS algorithm requires a sufficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Fabio Nobile , Matteo Raviola , Raul Tempone

Active learning (AL) is an effective approach to select the most informative samples to label so as to reduce the annotation cost. Existing AL methods typically work under the closed-set assumption, i.e., all classes existing in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Linhao Qu , Yingfan Ma , Zhiwei Yang , Manning Wang , Zhijian Song

Exfiltration of data via email is a serious cybersecurity threat for many organizations. Detecting data exfiltration (anomaly) patterns typically requires labeling, most often done by a human annotator, to reduce the high number of false…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jaturong Kongmanee , Mark Chignell , Khilan Jerath , Abhay Raman

The remarkable advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced the performance in few-shot learning settings. By using only a small number of labeled examples, referred to as demonstrations, LLMs can effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Katerina Margatina , Timo Schick , Nikolaos Aletras , Jane Dwivedi-Yu

Active Learning (AL) is an active domain of research, but is seldom used in the industry despite the pressing needs. This is in part due to a misalignment of objectives, while research strives at getting the best results on selected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Alexandre Abraham , Léo Dreyfus-Schmidt

Active Learning (AL) is a family of machine learning (ML) algorithms that predates the current era of artificial intelligence. Unlike traditional approaches that require labeled samples for training, AL iteratively selects unlabeled samples…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Yongcheng Ding , José D. Martín-Guerrero , Yolanda Vives-Gilabert , Xi Chen

While annotating decent amounts of data to satisfy sophisticated learning models can be cost-prohibitive for many real-world applications. Active learning (AL) and semi-supervised learning (SSL) are two effective, but often isolated, means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Jiannan Guo , Yangyang Kang , Yu Duan , Xiaozhong Liu , Siliang Tang , Wenqiao Zhang , Kun Kuang , Changlong Sun , Fei Wu

Learning semantic segmentation requires pixel-wise annotations, which can be time-consuming and expensive. To reduce the annotation cost, we propose a superpixel-based active learning (AL) framework, which collects a dominant label per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Hoyoung Kim , Minhyeon Oh , Sehyun Hwang , Suha Kwak , Jungseul Ok

Do we need active learning? The rise of strong deep semi-supervised methods raises doubt about the usability of active learning in limited labeled data settings. This is caused by results showing that combining semi-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Sandra Gilhuber , Rasmus Hvingelby , Mang Ling Ada Fok , Thomas Seidl

Active learning (AL) is a human-and-model-in-the-loop paradigm that iteratively selects informative unlabeled data for human annotation, aiming to improve over random sampling. However, performing AL experiments with human annotations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Katerina Margatina , Nikolaos Aletras

Active learning (AL) can drastically accelerate materials discovery; its power has been shown in various classes of materials and target properties. Prior efforts have used machine learning models for the optimal selection of physical…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-18 David E. Farache , Juan C. Verduzco , Zachary D. McClure , Saaketh Desai , Alejandro Strachan

Active learning (AL) reduces the amount of labeled data needed to train a machine learning model by intelligently choosing which instances to label. Classic pool-based AL requires all data to be present in a datacenter, which can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Sebastian Schmidt , Stephan Günnemann

Multiple instance learning (MIL) was a weakly supervised learning approach that sought to assign binary class labels to collections of instances known as bags. However, due to their weak supervision nature, the MIL methods were susceptible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Wenhui Zhu , Peijie Qiu , Xiwen Chen , Oana M. Dumitrascu , Yalin Wang

Dense regression is a widely used approach in computer vision for tasks such as image super-resolution, enhancement, depth estimation, etc. However, the high cost of annotation and labeling makes it challenging to achieve accurate results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Vikrant Rangnekar , Uddeshya Upadhyay , Zeynep Akata , Biplab Banerjee

Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification presents inherent challenges due to high spectral dimensionality, significant domain shifts, and limited availability of labeled data. To address these issues, we propose a novel Active Transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Muhammad Ahmad , Francesco Mauro , Manuel Mazzara , Salvatore Distefano , Adil Mehmood Khan , Silvia Liberata Ullo

Large Language Models (LLMs) are highly accurate in classification tasks, however, substantial computational and financial costs hinder their large-scale deployment in dynamic environments. Knowledge Distillation (KD) where a LLM "teacher"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Viviana Luccioli , Rithika Iyengar , Ryan Panley , Flora Haberkorn , Xiaoyu Ge , Leland Crane , Nitish Sinha , Seung Jung Lee