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Motivation: Ab initio protein docking represents a major challenge for optimizing a noisy and costly "black box"-like function in a high-dimensional space. Despite progress in this field, there is no docking method available for rigorous…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-04 Yue Cao , Yang Shen

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

We consider a batch active learning scenario where the learner adaptively issues batches of points to a labeling oracle. Sampling labels in batches is highly desirable in practice due to the smaller number of interactive rounds with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Claudio Gentile , Zhilei Wang , Tong Zhang

Supervised classification approaches can predict labels for unknown data because of the supervised training process. The success of classification is heavily dependent on the labeled training data. Differently, clustering is effective in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-19 Fangfang Li , Guandong Xu , Longbing Cao

During recent years, active learning has evolved into a popular paradigm for utilizing user's feedback to improve accuracy of learning algorithms. Active learning works by selecting the most informative sample among unlabeled data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alireza Ghasemi , Hamid R. Rabiee , Mohsen Fadaee , Mohammad T. Manzuri , Mohammad H. Rohban

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

Machine learning algorithms with empirical risk minimization are vulnerable under distributional shifts due to the greedy adoption of all the correlations found in training data. There is an emerging literature on tackling this problem by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jiashuo Liu , Zheyan Shen , Peng Cui , Linjun Zhou , Kun Kuang , Bo Li

Multi-domain learning (MDL) refers to learning a set of models simultaneously, where each model is specialized to perform a task in a particular domain. Generally, a high labeling effort is required in MDL, as data needs to be labeled by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Rui He , Shengcai Liu , Shan He , Ke Tang

The scalability of pool-based active learning is limited by the computational cost of evaluating large unlabeled datasets, a challenge that is particularly acute in virtual screening for drug discovery. While active learning strategies such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Renfei Zhang , Mohit Pandey , Artem Cherkasov , Martin Ester

We consider active learning for binary classification in the agnostic pool-based setting. The vast majority of works in active learning in the agnostic setting are inspired by the CAL algorithm where each query is uniformly sampled from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Julian Katz-Samuels , Jifan Zhang , Lalit Jain , Kevin Jamieson

Aging civil infrastructures are closely monitored by engineers for damage and critical defects. As the manual inspection of such large structures is costly and time-consuming, we are working towards fully automating the visual inspections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Thomas Frick , Diego Antognini , Mattia Rigotti , Ioana Giurgiu , Benjamin Grewe , Cristiano Malossi

Active Learning (AL) is a user-interactive approach aimed at reducing annotation costs by selecting the most crucial examples to label. Although AL has been extensively studied for image classification tasks, the specific scenario of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Leah Bar , Boaz Lerner , Nir Darshan , Rami Ben-Ari

Deep Active Learning (DAL) aims to reduce labeling costs in neural-network training by prioritizing the most informative unlabeled samples for annotation. Beyond selecting which samples to label, several DAL approaches further enhance data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jonathan Spiegelman , Guy Amir , Guy Katz

A fundamental task in science is to design experiments that yield valuable insights about the system under study. Mathematically, these insights can be represented as a utility or risk function that shapes the value of conducting each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Christopher Tosh , Mauricio Tec , Wesley Tansey

Active learning is an effective technique for reducing the labeling cost by improving data efficiency. In this work, we propose a novel batch acquisition strategy for active learning in the setting where the model training is performed in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Zalán Borsos , Marco Tagliasacchi , Andreas Krause

We introduce Information Condensing Active Learning (ICAL), a batch mode model agnostic Active Learning (AL) method targeted at Deep Bayesian Active Learning that focuses on acquiring labels for points which have as much information as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Siddhartha Jain , Ge Liu , David Gifford

In this paper, we proposed a new clustering-based active learning framework, namely Active Learning using a Clustering-based Sampling (ALCS), to address the shortage of labeled data. ALCS employs a density-based clustering approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Xuyang Yan , Shabnam Nazmi , Biniam Gebru , Mohd Anwar , Abdollah Homaifar , Mrinmoy Sarkar , Kishor Datta Gupta

Active learning (AL) has found wide applications in medical image segmentation, aiming to alleviate the annotation workload and enhance performance. Conventional uncertainty-based AL methods, such as entropy and Bayesian, often rely on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Siteng Ma , Haochang Wu , Aonghus Lawlor , Ruihai Dong

Active learning has demonstrated data efficiency in many fields. Existing active learning algorithms, especially in the context of batch-mode deep Bayesian active models, rely heavily on the quality of uncertainty estimations of the model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Renyu Zhang , Aly A. Khan , Robert L. Grossman , Yuxin Chen

The availability of labelled data is one of the main limitations in machine learning. We can alleviate this using weak supervision: a framework that uses expert-defined rules $\boldsymbol{\lambda}$ to estimate probabilistic labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Samantha Biegel , Rafah El-Khatib , Luiz Otavio Vilas Boas Oliveira , Max Baak , Nanne Aben