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Active learning focuses on choosing a subset of unlabeled data to be labeled. However, most such methods assume that a large subset of the data can be annotated. We are interested in low-budget active learning where only a small subset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Kossar Pourahmadi , Parsa Nooralinejad , Hamed Pirsiavash

Online active learning is a paradigm in machine learning that aims to select the most informative data points to label from a data stream. The problem of minimizing the cost associated with collecting labeled observations has gained a lot…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-01 Davide Cacciarelli , Murat Kulahci

Labeled data are critical to modern machine learning applications, but obtaining labels can be expensive. To mitigate this cost, machine learning methods, such as transfer learning, semi-supervised learning and active learning, aim to be…

Active learning (AL) has shown promise for being a particularly data-efficient machine learning approach. Yet, its performance depends on the application and it is not clear when AL practitioners can expect computational savings. Here, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Kunal Ghosh , Milica Todorović , Aki Vehtari , Patrick Rinke

Deep Active Learning (DAL) reduces annotation costs by selecting the most informative unlabeled samples during training. As real-world applications become more complex, challenges stemming from distribution shifts (e.g., open-set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Chenkai Wu , Yuanyuan Qi , Xiaohao Yang , Jueqing Lu , Gang Liu , Wray Buntine , Lan Du

Labeling a large set of data is expensive. Active learning aims to tackle this problem by asking to annotate only the most informative data from the unlabeled set. We propose a novel active learning approach that utilizes self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 John Seon Keun Yi , Minseok Seo , Jongchan Park , Dong-Geol Choi

This paper introduces a cost-efficient active learning (AL) framework for classification, featuring a novel query design called candidate set query. Unlike traditional AL queries requiring the oracle to examine all possible classes, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yeho Gwon , Sehyun Hwang , Hoyoung Kim , Jungseul Ok , Suha Kwak

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning has shown remarkable efficacy in efficient learning new concepts with limited annotations. Nevertheless, the heuristic few-shot annotations may not always cover the most informative samples, which largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Zitong Huang , Ze Chen , Yuanze Li , Bowen Dong , Erjin Zhou , Yong Liu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Chun-Mei Feng , Wangmeng Zuo

Active learning is a label-efficient approach to train highly effective models while interactively selecting only small subsets of unlabelled data for labelling and training. In "open world" settings, the classes of interest can make up a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jifan Zhang , Julian Katz-Samuels , Robert Nowak

Active learning aims to address the paucity of labeled data by finding the most informative samples. However, when applying to semantic segmentation, existing methods ignore the segmentation difficulty of different semantic areas, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Shuai Xie , Zunlei Feng , Ying Chen , Songtao Sun , Chao Ma , Mingli Song

Active learning (AL) techniques reduce labeling costs for training neural machine translation (NMT) models by selecting smaller representative subsets from unlabeled data for annotation. Diversity sampling techniques select heterogeneous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Abdul Hameed Azeemi , Ihsan Ayyub Qazi , Agha Ali Raza

Active learning is considered a viable solution to alleviate the contradiction between the high dependency of deep learning-based segmentation methods on annotated data and the expensive pixel-level annotation cost of medical images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jun Shi , Shulan Ruan , Ziqi Zhu , Minfan Zhao , Hong An , Xudong Xue , Bing Yan

Active learning (AL) strategies aim to train high-performance models with minimal labeling efforts, only selecting the most informative instances for annotation. Current approaches to evaluating data informativeness predominantly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhixuan Liang , Xingyu Zeng , Rui Zhao , Ping Luo

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

In multi-domain learning (MDL) scenarios, high labeling effort is required due to the complexity of collecting data from various domains. Active Learning (AL) presents an encouraging solution to this issue by annotating a smaller number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Rui He , Zeyu Dai , Shan He , Ke Tang

Classification algorithms to mine data stream have been extensively studied in recent years. However, a lot of these algorithms are designed for supervised learning which requires labeled instances. Nevertheless, the labeling of the data is…

Multi-annotator learning (MAL) aims to model annotator-specific labeling patterns. However, existing methods face a critical challenge: they simply skip updating annotator-specific model parameters when encountering missing labels, i.e., a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Liyun Zhang , Zheng Lian , Hong Liu , Takanori Takebe , Yuta Nakashima

We introduce a new and improved characterization of the label complexity of disagreement-based active learning, in which the leading quantity is the version space compression set size. This quantity is defined as the size of the smallest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Yair Wiener , Steve Hanneke , Ran El-Yaniv

Active learning (AL) has emerged as a crucial strategy for reducing the prohibitive costs associated with medical image segmentation. However, standard uncertainty-based AL methods typically focus on maximizing performance metrics, ignoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ghazal Danaee , Mélanie Gaillochet , Christian Desrosiers , Herve Lombaert , Sylvain Bouix

The great success that deep models have achieved in the past is mainly owed to large amounts of labeled training data. However, the acquisition of labeled data for new tasks aside from existing benchmarks is both challenging and costly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Clemens-Alexander Brust , Christoph Käding , Joachim Denzler