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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

With the goal of making deep learning more label-efficient, a growing number of papers have been studying active learning (AL) for deep models. However, there are a number of issues in the prevalent experimental settings, mainly stemming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Nathan Beck , Durga Sivasubramanian , Apurva Dani , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Rishabh Iyer

Data Augmentation (DA) has become an essential tool to improve robustness and generalization of modern machine learning. However, when deciding on DA strategies it is critical to choose parameters carefully, and this can be a daunting task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Madi Matymov , Ba-Hien Tran , Michael Kampffmeyer , Markus Heinonen , Maurizio Filippone

Regularization techniques are crucial to improving the generalization performance and training efficiency of deep neural networks. Many deep learning algorithms rely on weight decay, dropout, batch/layer normalization to converge faster and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Peng Lu , Ahmad Rashid , Ivan Kobyzev , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Philippe Langlais

Active Learning (AL) and Semi-supervised Learning are two techniques that have been studied to reduce the high cost of deep learning by using a small amount of labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data. To improve the accuracy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Jaeseung Lim , Jongkeun Na , Nojun Kwak

Machine Learning (ML) is widely used to automatically extract meaningful information from Electronic Health Records (EHR) to support operational, clinical, and financial decision-making. However, ML models require a large number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Martha Dais Ferreira , Michal Malyska , Nicola Sahar , Riccardo Miotto , Fernando Paulovich , Evangelos Milios

As large language models (LLMs) become more capable, fine-tuning techniques for aligning with human intent are increasingly important. A key consideration for aligning these models is how to most effectively use human resources, or model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 William Muldrew , Peter Hayes , Mingtian Zhang , David Barber

Pool-based active learning (AL) is a promising technology for increasing data-efficiency of machine learning models. However, surveys show that performance of recent AL methods is very sensitive to the choice of dataset and training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Tim Bakker , Herke van Hoof , Max Welling

Active learning (AL) aims to optimize model training and reduce annotation costs by selecting the most informative samples for labeling. Typically, AL methods rely on the empirical distribution of labeled data to define the decision…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Hui Xiang , Jinqiao Shi , Ting Zhang , Xiaojie Zhao , Yong Liu , Yong Ma

Human behavior expression and experience are inherently multi-modal, and characterized by vast individual and contextual heterogeneity. To achieve meaningful human-computer and human-robot interactions, multi-modal models of the users…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Ognjen Rudovic , Meiru Zhang , Bjorn Schuller , Rosalind W. Picard

Stream-based active learning (AL) is an efficient training data collection method, and it is used to reduce human annotation cost required in machine learning. However, it is difficult to say that the human cost is low enough because most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Kanata Suzuki , Taro Sunagawa , Tomotake Sasaki , Takashi Katoh

Conventional active learning (AL) frameworks aim to reduce the cost of data annotation by actively requesting the labeling for the most informative data points. However, introducing AL to data hungry deep learning algorithms has been a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Salman Mohamadi , Gianfranco Doretto , Donald A. Adjeroh

This work introduces Dirichlet Active Learning (DiAL), a Bayesian-inspired approach to the design of active learning algorithms. Our framework models feature-conditional class probabilities as a Dirichlet random field and lends…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-10 Kevin Miller , Ryan Murray

Deep active learning (AL) seeks to minimize the annotation costs for training deep neural networks. BAIT, a recently proposed AL strategy based on the Fisher Information, has demonstrated impressive performance across various datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Denis Huseljic , Paul Hahn , Marek Herde , Lukas Rauch , Bernhard Sick

Active learning (AL) is a sequential learning scheme aiming to select the most informative data. AL reduces data consumption and avoids the cost of labeling large amounts of data. However, AL trains the model and solves an acquisition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Cen-You Li , Marc Toussaint , Barbara Rakitsch , Christoph Zimmer

Active learning effectively collects data instances for training deep learning models when the labeled dataset is limited and the annotation cost is high. Besides active learning, data augmentation is also an effective technique to enlarge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Yoon-Yeong Kim , Kyungwoo Song , JoonHo Jang , Il-Chul Moon

We develop a Learning Direct Optimization (LiDO) method for the refinement of a latent variable model that describes input image x. Our goal is to explain a single image x with an interpretable 3D computer graphics model having scene graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Lukasz Romaszko , Christopher K. I. Williams , John Winn

Label noise poses a serious threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). Employing robust loss functions which reconcile fitting ability with robustness is a simple but effective strategy to handle this problem. However, the widely-used static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Xiu-Chuan Li , Xiaobo Xia , Fei Zhu , Tongliang Liu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Bayesian optimization (BO) is an efficient framework for optimization of black-box objectives when function evaluations are costly and gradient information is not easily accessible. BO has been successfully applied to automate the task of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Pallavi Mitra , Felix Biessmann

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