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Deep learning (DL) techniques are highly effective for defect detection from images. Training DL classification models, however, requires vast amounts of labeled data which is often expensive to collect. In many cases, not only the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Adrian Shuai Li , Elisa Bertino , Rih-Teng Wu , Ting-Yan Wu

While deep learning is a powerful tool for natural language processing (NLP) problems, successful solutions to these problems rely heavily on large amounts of annotated samples. However, manually annotating data is expensive and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Rishi Hazra , Parag Dutta , Shubham Gupta , Mohammed Abdul Qaathir , Ambedkar Dukkipati

While deep learning is a powerful tool for natural language processing (NLP) problems, successful solutions to these problems rely heavily on large amounts of annotated samples. However, manually annotating data is expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Rishi Hazra , Parag Dutta , Shubham Gupta , Mohammed Abdul Qaathir , Ambedkar Dukkipati

The field of Natural Language Generation (NLG) suffers from a severe shortage of labeled data due to the extremely expensive and time-consuming process involved in manual annotation. A natural approach for coping with this problem is active…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yotam Perlitz , Ariel Gera , Michal Shmueli-Scheuer , Dafna Sheinwald , Noam Slonim , Liat Ein-Dor

Domain adaptation (DA) is transfer learning which aims to learn an effective predictor on target data from source data despite data distribution mismatch between source and target. We present in this paper a novel unsupervised DA method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Lingkun Luo , Liming Chen , Ying lu , Shiqiang Hu

Active learning is a promising paradigm to reduce the labeling cost by strategically requesting labels to improve model performance. However, existing active learning methods often rely on expensive acquisition function to compute,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Zixin Ding , Si Chen , Ruoxi Jia , Yuxin Chen

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

We introduce and analyse active learning markets as a way to purchase labels, in situations where analysts aim to acquire additional data to improve model fitting, or to better train models for predictive analytics applications. This comes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Xiwen Huang , Pierre Pinson

The composition of pretraining data is a key determinant of foundation models' performance, but there is no standard guideline for allocating a limited computational budget across different data sources. Most current approaches either rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yiding Jiang , Allan Zhou , Zhili Feng , Sadhika Malladi , J. Zico Kolter

Active learning is able to reduce the amount of labelling effort by using a machine learning model to query the user for specific inputs. While there are many papers on new active learning techniques, these techniques rarely satisfy the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Parmida Atighehchian , Frédéric Branchaud-Charron , Alexandre Lacoste

Most of the existing learning models, particularly deep neural networks, are reliant on large datasets whose hand-labeling is expensive and time demanding. A current trend is to make the learning of these models frugal and less dependent on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Sebastien Deschamps , Hichem Sahbi

Active learning (AL) is a human-and-model-in-the-loop paradigm that iteratively selects informative unlabeled data for human annotation, aiming to improve over random sampling. However, performing AL experiments with human annotations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Katerina Margatina , Nikolaos Aletras

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

Majorly classical Active Learning (AL) approach usually uses statistical theory such as entropy and margin to measure instance utility, however it fails to capture the data distribution information contained in the unlabeled data. This can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Patrick K. Gikunda , Nicolas Jouandeau

The goal behind Domain Adaptation (DA) is to leverage the labeled examples from a source domain so as to infer an accurate model in a target domain where labels are not available or in scarce at the best. A state-of-the-art approach for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Amar Prakash Azad , Dinesh Garg , Priyanka Agrawal , Arun Kumar

Materials discovery is a cornerstone of modern technological advancement, yet it remains constrained by traditional trial-and-error paradigms and the inherent bias of human intuition. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a…

We introduce Direct Value Optimization (DVO), an innovative reinforcement learning framework for enhancing large language models in complex reasoning tasks. Unlike traditional methods relying on preference labels, DVO utilizes value signals…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Hongbo Zhang , Han Cui , Guangsheng Bao , Linyi Yang , Jun Wang , Yue Zhang

In this experience report, we apply deep active learning to the field of design optimization to reduce the number of computationally expensive numerical simulations. We are interested in optimizing the design of structural components, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jens Decke , Christian Gruhl , Lukas Rauch , Bernhard Sick

Active Learning (AL) is a powerful tool for learning with less labeled data, in particular, for specialized domains, like legal documents, where unlabeled data is abundant, but the annotation requires domain expertise and is thus expensive.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Sepideh Mamooler , Rémi Lebret , Stéphane Massonnet , Karl Aberer

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