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The remarkable performance of deep neural networks depends on the availability of massive labeled data. To alleviate the load of data annotation, active deep learning aims to select a minimal set of training points to be labelled which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Dan Kushnir , Luca Venturi

In many applications the process of generating label information is expensive and time consuming. We present a new method that combines active and semi-supervised deep learning to achieve high generalization performance from a deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Matthias Rottmann , Karsten Kahl , Hanno Gottschalk

Fine-grained multi-label classification models have broad applications in e-commerce, such as visual based label predictions ranging from fashion attribute detection to brand recognition. One challenge to achieve satisfactory performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Xin Shen , Xiaonan Zhao , Rui Luo

Active learning aims to reduce labeling efforts by selectively asking humans to annotate the most important data points from an unlabeled pool and is an example of human-machine interaction. Though active learning has been extensively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Hongjing Zhang , S. S. Ravi , Ian Davidson

We study different aspects of active learning with deep neural networks in a consistent and unified way. i) We investigate incremental and cumulative training modes which specify how the newly labeled data are used for training. ii) We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 John Daniel Bossér , Erik Sörstadius , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani

The effectiveness of modern deep learning models is predicated on the availability of large-scale, human-annotated datasets, a process that is notoriously expensive and time-consuming. While Active Learning (AL) offers a strategic solution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yuxi Liu , Catherine Lalman , Yimin Yang

Vulnerability detection is crucial for identifying security weaknesses in software systems. However, training effective machine learning models for this task is often constrained by the high cost and expertise required for data annotation.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xiang Lan , Tim Menzies , Bowen Xu

In recent years, deep learning has become a breakthrough technique in assisting medical image diagnosis. Supervised learning using convolutional neural networks (CNN) provides state-of-the-art performance and has served as a benchmark for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Tao Wang , Xinlin Zhang , Yuanbo Zhou , Junlin Lan , Tao Tan , Min Du , Qinquan Gao , Tong Tong

Active learning (AL) is a principled strategy to reduce annotation cost in data-hungry deep learning. However, existing AL algorithms focus almost exclusively on unimodal data, overlooking the substantial annotation burden in multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Jiancheng Zhang , Yinglun Zhu

Fine-tuning all parameters of Large Language Models (LLMs) is computationally expensive. Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods address this by selectively fine-tuning specific parameters. Most of the parameter efficient fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ming Dong , Kang Xue , Bolong Zheng , Tingting He

With the development of computational power and techniques for data collection, deep learning demonstrates a superior performance over most existing algorithms on visual benchmark data sets. Many efforts have been devoted to studying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Yuanhong Xu , Qi Qian , Hao Li , Rong Jin , Juhua Hu

Classification algorithms to mine data stream have been extensively studied in recent years. However, a lot of these algorithms are designed for supervised learning which requires labeled instances. Nevertheless, the labeling of the data is…

The acquisition of labels for supervised learning can be expensive. To improve the sample efficiency of neural network regression, we study active learning methods that adaptively select batches of unlabeled data for labeling. We present a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-02 David Holzmüller , Viktor Zaverkin , Johannes Kästner , Ingo Steinwart

Active Learning (AL) and Few Shot Learning (FSL) are two label-efficient methods which have achieved excellent results recently. However, most prior arts in both learning paradigms fail to explore the wealth of the vast unlabelled data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Nico Schiavone , Jingyi Wang , Shuangzhi Li , Roger Zemp , Xingyu Li

Person re-identification aims to match a person's identity across multiple camera streams. Deep neural networks have been successfully applied to the challenging person re-identification task. One remarkable bottleneck is that the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Guodong Ding , Shanshan Zhang , Salman Khan , Zhenmin Tang , Jian Zhang , Fatih Porikli

Active learning (AL) strategies aim to train high-performance models with minimal labeling efforts, only selecting the most informative instances for annotation. Current approaches to evaluating data informativeness predominantly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhixuan Liang , Xingyu Zeng , Rui Zhao , Ping Luo

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

Training deep neural networks requires many training samples, but in practice training labels are expensive to obtain and may be of varying quality, as some may be from trusted expert labelers while others might be from heuristics or other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Mostafa Dehghani , Arash Mehrjou , Stephan Gouws , Jaap Kamps , Bernhard Schölkopf

Privacy policies are statements that notify users of the services' data practices. However, few users are willing to read through policy texts due to the length and complexity. While automated tools based on machine learning exist for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wenjun Qiu , David Lie

Even though active learning forms an important pillar of machine learning, deep learning tools are not prevalent within it. Deep learning poses several difficulties when used in an active learning setting. First, active learning (AL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Yarin Gal , Riashat Islam , Zoubin Ghahramani