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Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) is now a common approach for text classification in a wide range of applications. When labeled documents are scarce, active learning helps save annotation efforts but requires retraining of massive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Artem Vysogorets , Achintya Gopal

Aligning large language models (LLMs) depends on high-quality datasets of human preference labels, which are costly to collect. Although active learning has been studied to improve sample efficiency relative to passive collection, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yao Zhao , Kwang-Sung Jun

Active learning emerged as an alternative to alleviate the effort to label huge amount of data for data hungry applications (such as image/video indexing and retrieval, autonomous driving, etc.). The goal of active learning is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Minghan Li , Xialei Liu , Joost van de Weijer , Bogdan Raducanu

Active learning, a powerful paradigm in machine learning, aims at reducing labeling costs by selecting the most informative samples from an unlabeled dataset. However, the traditional active learning process often demands extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Gábor Németh , Tamás Matuszka

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

Active learning is a learning strategy whereby the machine learning algorithm actively identifies and labels data points to optimize its learning. This strategy is particularly effective in domains where an abundance of unlabeled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zan-Kai Chong , Hiroyuki Ohsaki , Bryan Ng

Supervised machine learning based state-of-the-art computer vision techniques are in general data hungry and pose the challenges of not having adequate computing resources and of high costs involved in human labeling efforts. Training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Vishal Kaushal , Anurag Sahoo , Khoshrav Doctor , Narasimha Raju , Suyash Shetty , Pankaj Singh , Rishabh Iyer , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

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

Active learning (AL) is a training paradigm for selecting unlabeled samples for annotation to improve model performance on a test set, which is useful when only a limited number of samples can be annotated. These algorithms often work by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Lorenzo Jaime Yu Flores , Cesare Spinoso di-Piano , Ori Ernst , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Data selection methods, such as active learning and core-set selection, are useful tools for machine learning on large datasets. However, they can be prohibitively expensive to apply in deep learning because they depend on feature…

Mastery learning improves learning proficiency and efficiency. However, the overpractice of skills--students spending time on skills they have already mastered--remains a fundamental challenge for tutoring systems. Previous research has…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Meng Xia , Robin Schmucker , Conrad Borchers , Vincent Aleven

Process Reward Models (PRMs) provide step-level supervision to large language models (LLMs), but scaling up training data annotation remains challenging for both humans and LLMs. To address this limitation, we propose an active learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Keyu Duan , Zichen Liu , Xin Mao , Tianyu Pang , Changyu Chen , Qiguang Chen , Michael Qizhe Shieh , Longxu Dou

To leverage the power of big data from source tasks and overcome the scarcity of the target task samples, representation learning based on multi-task pretraining has become a standard approach in many applications. However, up until now,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Yifang Chen , Simon S. Du , Kevin Jamieson

Active learning (AL) is a principled strategy to reduce annotation cost in data-hungry deep learning. However, existing AL algorithms focus almost exclusively on unimodal data, overlooking the substantial annotation burden in multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Jiancheng Zhang , Yinglun Zhu

Active learning is designed to minimize annotation efforts by prioritizing instances that most enhance learning. However, many active learning strategies struggle with a `cold-start' problem, needing substantial initial data to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Markus Bayer , Justin Lutz , Christian Reuter

In the world of big data, large but costly to label datasets dominate many fields. Active learning, a semi-supervised alternative to the standard PAC-learning model, was introduced to explore whether adaptive labeling could learn concepts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Max Hopkins , Daniel M. Kane , Shachar Lovett

Power-law scaling, a central concept in critical phenomena, is found to be useful in deep learning, where optimized test errors on handwritten digit examples converge as a power-law to zero with database size. For rapid decision making with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Yuval Meir , Shira Sardi , Shiri Hodassman , Karin Kisos , Itamar Ben-Noam , Amir Goldental , Ido Kanter

Meta-learning has enabled learning statistical models that can be quickly adapted to new prediction tasks. Motivated by use-cases in personalized federated learning, we study the often overlooked aspect of the modern meta-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Maruan Al-Shedivat , Liam Li , Eric Xing , Ameet Talwalkar

Many active learning and search approaches are intractable for large-scale industrial settings with billions of unlabeled examples. Existing approaches search globally for the optimal examples to label, scaling linearly or even…

Active learning aims to reduce the high labeling cost involved in training machine learning models on large datasets by efficiently labeling only the most informative samples. Recently, deep active learning has shown success on various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Sudhanshu Mittal , Maxim Tatarchenko , Özgün Çiçek , Thomas Brox