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Data-efficient learning algorithms are essential in many practical applications where data collection is expensive, e.g., in robotics due to the wear and tear. To address this problem, meta-learning algorithms use prior experience about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Jean Kaddour , Steindór Sæmundsson , Marc Peter Deisenroth

Active Learning is concerned with the question of how to identify the most useful samples for a Machine Learning algorithm to be trained with. When applied correctly, it can be a very powerful tool to counteract the immense data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Lukas Hahn , Lutz Roese-Koerner , Peet Cremer , Urs Zimmermann , Ori Maoz , Anton Kummert

Instruction tuning has been central to the success of recent vision-language models (VLMs), but it remains expensive-requiring large-scale datasets, high-quality annotations, and large compute budgets. We propose PRioritized cOncept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Shivam Chandhok , Qian Yang , Oscar Manas , Kanishk Jain , Leonid Sigal , Aishwarya Agrawal

Supervised machine learning based state-of-the-art computer vision techniques are in general data hungry. Their data curation poses the challenges of expensive human labeling, inadequate computing resources and larger experiment turn around…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Vishal Kaushal , Rishabh Iyer , Suraj Kothawade , Rohan Mahadev , Khoshrav Doctor , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Hard optimisation problems such as Boolean Satisfiability typically have long solving times and can usually be solved by many algorithms, although the performance can vary widely in practice. Research has shown that no single algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Riccardo Volpato , Guangyan Song

The success of the machine learning field has reliably depended on training on large datasets. While effective, this trend comes at an extraordinary cost. This is due to two deeply intertwined factors: the size of models and the size of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Shriram M Sathiyanarayanan , Xinyue Hao , Shihao Hou , Yang Lu , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Anurag Arnab , Shreyank N Gowda

Hard-label classification is usually trained with smooth surrogate losses, most prominently softmax cross-entropy. We isolate an asymptotic mechanism by which this mismatch between smooth surrogate and discrete labels produces power-law…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Marcel Kühn , Yoon Thelge , Bernd Rosenow

State-of-the-art machine learning models require access to significant amount of annotated data in order to achieve the desired level of performance. While unlabelled data can be largely available and even abundant, annotation process can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Rahaf Aljundi , Nikolay Chumerin , Daniel Olmeda Reino

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) often rely on very large datasets for training. Given the large size of such datasets, it is conceivable that they contain certain samples that either do not contribute or negatively impact the DNN's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Kashyap Chitta , Jose M. Alvarez , Elmar Haussmann , Clement Farabet

Pre-trained Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated notable progress in various zero-shot tasks, such as classification and retrieval. Despite their performance, because improving performance on new tasks requires task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jihwan Bang , Sumyeong Ahn , Jae-Gil Lee

Active learning (AL) aims to enable training high performance classifiers with low annotation cost by predicting which subset of unlabelled instances would be most beneficial to label. The importance of AL has motivated extensive research,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Kunkun Pang , Mingzhi Dong , Yang Wu , Timothy Hospedales

Most reinforcement learning algorithms take advantage of an experience replay buffer to repeatedly train on samples the agent has observed in the past. Not all samples carry the same amount of significance and simply assigning equal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Shivakanth Sujit , Somjit Nath , Pedro H. M. Braga , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Developed to alleviate prohibitive labeling costs, active learning (AL) methods aim to reduce label complexity in supervised learning. While recent work has demonstrated the benefit of using AL in combination with large pre-trained language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Josip Jukić , Jan Šnajder

It is crucial for large language models (LLMs) to follow instructions that involve multiple constraints. However, it is an unexplored area to enhance LLMs' ability to follow soft constraints. To bridge the gap, we initially design a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Qingyu Ren , Jie Zeng , Qianyu He , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao , Weikang Zhou , Zeye Sun , Fei Yu

A principle bottleneck in image classification is the large number of training examples needed to train a classifier. Using active learning, we can reduce the number of training examples to teach a CNN classifier by strategically selecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Thien Nhan Vo

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

Active learning aims to optimize the dataset annotation process when resources are constrained. Most existing methods are designed for balanced datasets. Their practical applicability is limited by the fact that a majority of real-life…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Umang Aggarwal , Adrian Popescu , Céline Hudelot

Existing approaches to active learning maximize the system performance by sampling unlabeled instances for annotation that yield the most efficient training. However, when active learning is integrated with an end-user application, this can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Ji-Ung Lee , Christian M. Meyer , Iryna Gurevych

Meta learning approaches to few-shot classification are computationally efficient at test time, requiring just a few optimization steps or single forward pass to learn a new task, but they remain highly memory-intensive to train. This…

Active learning aims to obtain a classifier of high accuracy by using fewer label requests in comparison to passive learning by selecting effective queries. Many active learning methods have been developed in the past two decades, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Cem Orhan , Öznur Taştan