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Modern systems that rely on Machine Learning (ML) for predictive modelling, may suffer from the cold-start problem: supervised models work well but, initially, there are no labels, which are costly or slow to obtain. This problem is even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Ricardo Barata , Miguel Leite , Ricardo Pacheco , Marco O. P. Sampaio , João Tiago Ascensão , Pedro Bizarro

Active Learning (AL) is a powerful tool to address modern machine learning problems with significantly fewer labeled training instances. However, implementation of traditional AL methodologies in practical scenarios is accompanied by…

This paper examines the effectiveness of combining active learning and transfer learning for anomaly detection in cross-domain time-series data. Our results indicate that there is an interaction between clustering and active learning and in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 John D. Kelleher , Matthew Nicholson , Rahul Agrahari , Clare Conran

Deep learning (DL) algorithms rely on massive amounts of labeled data. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) and active learning (AL) aim to reduce this label complexity by leveraging unlabeled data or carefully acquiring labels, respectively. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Seo Taek Kong , Soomin Jeon , Dongbin Na , Jaewon Lee , Hong-Seok Lee , Kyu-Hwan Jung

Active learning aims to reduce the labeling effort that is required to train algorithms by learning an acquisition function selecting the most relevant data for which a label should be requested from a large unlabeled data pool. Active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Javad Zolfaghari Bengar , Joost van de Weijer , Laura Lopez Fuentes , Bogdan Raducanu

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

In many real-world machine learning applications, unlabeled data can be easily obtained, but it is very time-consuming and/or expensive to label them. So, it is desirable to be able to select the optimal samples to label, so that a good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Ziang Liu , Dongrui Wu

Learning semantic segmentation requires pixel-wise annotations, which can be time-consuming and expensive. To reduce the annotation cost, we propose a superpixel-based active learning (AL) framework, which collects a dominant label per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Hoyoung Kim , Minhyeon Oh , Sehyun Hwang , Suha Kwak , Jungseul Ok

Active learning is a unique abstraction of machine learning techniques where the model/algorithm could guide users for annotation of a set of data points that would be beneficial to the model, unlike passive machine learning. The primary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Vishwesh Nath , Dong Yang , Bennett A. Landman , Daguang Xu , Holger R. Roth

Human annotation of training samples is expensive, laborious, and sometimes challenging, especially for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. To reduce the labeling cost and enhance the sample efficiency, Active Learning (AL) technique…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Xuesong Wang

The promise of active learning (AL) is to reduce labelling costs by selecting the most valuable examples to annotate from a pool of unlabelled data. Identifying these examples is especially challenging with high-dimensional data (e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Amin Parvaneh , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Damien Teney , Reza Haffari , Anton van den Hengel , Javen Qinfeng Shi

When we can not assume a large amount of annotated data , active learning is a good strategy. It consists in learning a model on a small amount of annotated data (annotation budget) and in choosing the best set of points to annotate in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Umang Aggarwal , Adrian Popescu , Céline Hudelot

In this letter, we introduce deep active learning (AL) for multi-label classification (MLC) problems in remote sensing (RS). In particular, we investigate the effectiveness of several AL query functions for MLC of RS images. Unlike the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Lars Möllenbrok , Gencer Sumbul , Begüm Demir

Active Learning (AL) represents a crucial methodology within machine learning, emphasizing the identification and utilization of the most informative samples for efficient model training. However, a significant challenge of AL is its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Hanbin Hong , Shenao Yan , Shuya Feng , Yan Yan , Yuan Hong

Active Learning (AL) techniques have proven to be highly effective in reducing data labeling costs across a range of machine learning tasks. Nevertheless, one known challenge of these methods is their potential to introduce unfairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Ricky Fajri , Akrati Saxena , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Actively sampled data can have very different characteristics than passively sampled data. Therefore, it's promising to investigate using different inference procedures during AL than are used during passive learning (PL). This general idea…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-18 Michael Bloodgood , K. Vijay-Shanker

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

Quantifying the impacts of air pollution on health and climate relies on key atmospheric particle properties such as toxicity and hygroscopicity. However, these properties typically require complex observational techniques or expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Fei Jiang , Jiyang Xia , Junjie Yu , Mingfei Sun , Hugh Coe , David Topping , Dantong Liu , Zhenhui Jessie Li , Zhonghua Zheng

Active learning (AL) prioritizes the labeling of the most informative data samples. However, the performance of AL heuristics depends on the structure of the underlying classifier model and the data. We propose an imitation learning scheme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Christoffer Loeffler , Christopher Mutschler

Several Active Learning (AL) policies require retraining a target model several times in order to identify the most informative samples and rarely offer the option to focus on the acquisition of samples from underrepresented classes. Here…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Hugues Lambert , Emma Slade