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This work establishes distribution-free upper and lower bounds on the minimax label complexity of active learning with general hypothesis classes, under various noise models. The results reveal a number of surprising facts. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Steve Hanneke , Liu Yang

We study pool-based active learning of half-spaces. We revisit the aggressive approach for active learning in the realizable case, and show that it can be made efficient and practical, while also having theoretical guarantees under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Alon Gonen , Sivan Sabato , Shai Shalev-Shwartz

The high cost of acquiring labels is one of the main challenges in deploying supervised machine learning algorithms. Active learning is a promising approach to control the learning process and address the difficulties of data labeling by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki , Michael B. Wakin

The explosive growth of easily-accessible unlabeled data has lead to growing interest in active learning, a paradigm in which data-hungry learning algorithms adaptively select informative examples in order to lower prohibitively expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Max Hopkins , Daniel Kane , Shachar Lovett , Michal Moshkovitz

Active learning (AL) is a subfield of machine learning (ML) in which a learning algorithm could achieve good accuracy with less training samples by interactively querying a user/oracle to label new data points. Pool-based AL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Xueying Zhan , Antoni Bert Chan

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

Active learning approaches in computer vision generally involve querying strong labels for data. However, previous works have shown that weak supervision can be effective in training models for vision tasks while greatly reducing annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Sai Vikas Desai , Akshay L Chandra , Wei Guo , Seishi Ninomiya , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Active domain adaptation (ADA) studies have mainly addressed query selection while following existing domain adaptation strategies. However, we argue that it is critical to consider not only query selection criteria but also domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Kyeongtak Han , Youngeun Kim , Dongyoon Han , Sungeun Hong

We study the problem of reducing the amount of labeled training data required to train supervised classification models. We approach it by leveraging Active Learning, through sequential selection of examples which benefit the model most.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Fedor Zhdanov

Several works in computer vision have demonstrated the effectiveness of active learning for adapting the recognition model when new unlabeled data becomes available. Most of these works consider that labels obtained from the annotator are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Sudipta Paul , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Deep neural networks have reached high accuracy on object detection but their success hinges on large amounts of labeled data. To reduce the labels dependency, various active learning strategies have been proposed, typically based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ismail Elezi , Zhiding Yu , Anima Anandkumar , Laura Leal-Taixe , Jose M. Alvarez

We study active learning where the labeler can not only return incorrect labels but also abstain from labeling. We consider different noise and abstention conditions of the labeler. We propose an algorithm which utilizes abstention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Songbai Yan , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Tara Javidi

Active learning agents typically employ a query selection algorithm which solely considers the agent's learning objectives. However, this may be insufficient in more realistic human domains. This work uses imitation learning to enable an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Kalesha Bullard , Yannick Schroecker , Sonia Chernova

Active learners alleviate the burden of labeling large amounts of data by detecting and asking the user to label only the most informative examples in the domain. We focus here on active learning for multi-view domains, in which there are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-10-06 C. A. Knoblock , S. Minton , I. Muslea

In many real-world machine learning applications, unlabeled data are abundant whereas class labels are expensive and scarce. An active learner aims to obtain a model of high accuracy with as few labeled instances as possible by effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Cem Orhan , Oznur Tastan

Neural coreference resolution models trained on one dataset may not transfer to new, low-resource domains. Active learning mitigates this problem by sampling a small subset of data for annotators to label. While active learning is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Michelle Yuan , Patrick Xia , Chandler May , Benjamin Van Durme , Jordan Boyd-Graber

Active learning for object detection is conventionally achieved by applying techniques developed for classification in a way that aggregates individual detections into image-level selection criteria. This is typically coupled with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Michael Laielli , Giscard Biamby , Dian Chen , Ritwik Gupta , Adam Loeffler , Phat Dat Nguyen , Ross Luo , Trevor Darrell , Sayna Ebrahimi

We consider the problem of noisy Bayesian active learning, where we are given a finite set of functions $\mathcal{H}$, a sample space $\mathcal{X}$, and a label set $\mathcal{L}$. One of the functions in $\mathcal{H}$ assigns labels to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mohammad Naghshvar , Tara Javidi , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Recently, several studies have investigated active learning (AL) for natural language processing tasks to alleviate data dependency. However, for query selection, most of these studies mainly rely on uncertainty-based sampling, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Yekyung Kim

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot performance across various classification tasks. Nonetheless, their reliance on hand-crafted text prompts for each task hinders efficient adaptation to new tasks. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hoyoung Kim , Seokhee Jin , Changhwan Sung , Jaechang Kim , Jungseul Ok