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In active learning, the user sequentially chooses values for feature $X$ and an oracle returns the corresponding label $Y$. In this paper, we consider the effect of feature noise in active learning, which could arise either because $X$…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-19 Aaditya Ramdas , Barnabas Poczos , Aarti Singh , Larry Wasserman

We initiate the study of active learning algorithms for classifying strategic agents. Active learning is a well-established framework in machine learning in which the learner selectively queries labels, often achieving substantially higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Maria-Florina Balcan , Hedyeh Beyhaghi

Interesting theoretical associations have been established by recent papers between the fields of active learning and stochastic convex optimization due to the common role of feedback in sequential querying mechanisms. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Aaditya Ramdas , Aarti Singh

We study the theoretical advantages of active learning over passive learning. Specifically, we prove that, in noise-free classifier learning for VC classes, any passive learning algorithm can be transformed into an active learning algorithm…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-08-09 Steve Hanneke

We study the problem of learning general (i.e., not necessarily homogeneous) halfspaces with Random Classification Noise under the Gaussian distribution. We establish nearly-matching algorithmic and Statistical Query (SQ) lower bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis

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

There has been much interest in recent years in learning good classifiers from data with noisy labels. Most work on learning from noisy labels has focused on standard loss-based performance measures. However, many machine learning problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Mingyuan Zhang , Shivani Agarwal

Active Learning (AL) has garnered significant interest across various application domains where labeling training data is costly. AL provides a framework that helps practitioners query informative samples for annotation by oracles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Pouya Ahadi , Blair Winograd , Camille Zaug , Karunesh Arora , Lijun Wang , Kamran Paynabar

Deep neural networks have shown impressive performance in supervised learning, enabled by their ability to fit well to the provided training data. However, their performance is largely dependent on the quality of the training data and often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Abhishek Kumar , Ehsan Amid

The robustness of supervised deep learning-based medical image classification is significantly undermined by label noise. Although several methods have been proposed to enhance classification performance in the presence of noisy labels,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bidur Khanal , Tianhong Dai , Binod Bhattarai , Cristian Linte

Agnostic learning of Boolean halfspaces is a fundamental problem in computational learning theory, but it is known to be computationally hard even for weak learning. Recent work [CKKMK24] proposed smoothed analysis as a way to bypass such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yiwen Kou , Raghu Meka

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

The cost of annotating transcriptions for large speech corpora becomes a bottleneck to maximally enjoy the potential capacity of deep neural network-based automatic speech recognition models. In this paper, we present a new training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-06 Jihwan Bang , Heesu Kim , YoungJoon Yoo , Jung-Woo Ha

The sample complexity of active learning under the realizability assumption has been well-studied. The realizability assumption, however, rarely holds in practice. In this paper, we theoretically characterize the sample complexity of active…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-11-01 Wei Wang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

An active learner is given a class of models, a large set of unlabeled examples, and the ability to interactively query labels of a subset of these examples; the goal of the learner is to learn a model in the class that fits the data well.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Sham Kakade , Praneeth Netrapalli , Sujay Sanghavi

We study the task of agnostically learning halfspaces under the Gaussian distribution. Specifically, given labeled examples $(\mathbf{x},y)$ from an unknown distribution on $\mathbb{R}^n \times \{ \pm 1\}$, whose marginal distribution on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Lisheng Ren

We study the problem of learning halfspaces with Massart noise in the distribution-specific PAC model. We give the first computationally efficient algorithm for this problem with respect to a broad family of distributions, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Ilias Diakonikolas , Vasilis Kontonis , Christos Tzamos , Nikos Zarifis

We study the problem of agnostically learning halfspaces which is defined by a fixed but unknown distribution $\mathcal{D}$ on $\mathbb{Q}^n\times \{\pm 1\}$. We define $\mathrm{Err}_{\mathrm{HALF}}(\mathcal{D})$ as the least error of a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Amit Daniely

Data-efficient learning algorithms are essential in many practical applications for which data collection is expensive, e.g., for the optimal deployment of wireless systems in unknown propagation scenarios. Meta-learning can address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Ivana Nikoloska , Osvaldo Simeone

We address the problem of active logistic regression in the realizable setting. It is well known that active learning can require exponentially fewer label queries compared to passive learning, in some cases using $\log \frac{1}{\eps}$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yihan Zhou , Eric Price , Trung Nguyen