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Pool-based active learning (AL) aims to optimize the annotation process (i.e., labeling) as the acquisition of annotations is often time-consuming and therefore expensive. For this purpose, an AL strategy queries annotations intelligently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Marek Herde , Denis Huseljic , Bernhard Sick , Adrian Calma

As AI agents are increasingly used in the real open world with unknowns or novelties, they need the ability to (1) recognize objects that (a) they have learned before and (b) detect items that they have never seen or learned, and (2) learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Gyuhak Kim , Changnan Xiao , Tatsuya Konishi , Zixuan Ke , Bing Liu

This paper considers deep out-of-distribution active learning. In practice, fully trained neural networks interact randomly with out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs and map aberrant samples randomly within the model representation space. Since…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ryan Benkert , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

We propose a new batch mode active learning algorithm designed for neural networks and large query batch sizes. The method, Discriminative Active Learning (DAL), poses active learning as a binary classification task, attempting to choose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Daniel Gissin , Shai Shalev-Shwartz

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for the reliable deployment of machine learning models in real-world scenarios, enabling the identification of unknown samples or objects. A prominent approach to enhance OOD detection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-05 Heng Gao , Jun Li

Label efficiency has become an increasingly important objective in deep learning applications. Active learning aims to reduce the number of labeled examples needed to train deep networks, but the empirical performance of active learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jifan Zhang , Shuai Shao , Saurabh Verma , Robert Nowak

Active learning (AL) algorithms may achieve better performance with fewer data because the model guides the data selection process. While many algorithms have been proposed, there is little study on what the optimal AL algorithm looks like,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Yilun Zhou , Adithya Renduchintala , Xian Li , Sida Wang , Yashar Mehdad , Asish Ghoshal

Open-world machine learning is an emerging technique in artificial intelligence, where conventional machine learning models often follow closed-world assumptions, which can hinder their ability to retain previously learned knowledge for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Jitendra Parmar , Praveen Singh Thakur

Supervised machine learning has become the cornerstone of today's data-driven society, increasing the need for labeled data. However, the process of acquiring labels is often expensive and tedious. One possible remedy is to use active…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Josip Jukić , Fran Jelenić , Miroslav Bićanić , Jan Šnajder

Open-world classification systems should discern out-of-distribution (OOD) data whose labels deviate from those of in-distribution (ID) cases, motivating recent studies in OOD detection. Advanced works, despite their promising progress, may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Qizhou Wang , Zhen Fang , Yonggang Zhang , Feng Liu , Yixuan Li , Bo Han

Classic supervised learning makes the closed-world assumption, meaning that classes seen in testing must have been seen in training. However, in the dynamic world, new or unseen class examples may appear constantly. A model working in such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Hu Xu , Bing Liu , Lei Shu , P. Yu

Real world data often exhibits a long-tailed and open-ended (with unseen classes) distribution. A practical recognition system must balance between majority (head) and minority (tail) classes, generalize across the distribution, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Ziwei Liu , Zhongqi Miao , Xiaohang Zhan , Jiayun Wang , Boqing Gong , Stella X. Yu

Active Learning (AL) has gained prominence in integrating data-intensive machine learning (ML) models into domains with limited labeled data. However, its effectiveness diminishes significantly when the labeling budget is low. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Zhuokai Zhao , Yibo Jiang , Yuxin Chen

Active automata learning (AAL) algorithms can learn a behavioral model of a system from interacting with it. The primary challenge remains scaling to larger models, in particular in the presence of many possible inputs to the system. Modern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Loes Kruger , Sebastian Junges , Jurriaan Rot

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

Modern machine learning models deployed often encounter distribution shifts in real-world applications, manifesting as covariate or semantic out-of-distribution (OOD) shifts. These shifts give rise to challenges in OOD generalization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Haoyue Bai , Jifan Zhang , Robert Nowak

Conversational agents are usually designed for closed-world environments. Unfortunately, users can behave unexpectedly. Based on the open-world environment, we often encounter the situation that the training and test data are sampled from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Petr Lorenc , Tommaso Gargiani , Jan Pichl , Jakub Konrád , Petr Marek , Ondřej Kobza , Jan Šedivý

Federated active learning (FAL) seeks to reduce annotation cost under privacy constraints, yet its effectiveness degrades in realistic settings with severe global class imbalance and highly heterogeneous clients. We conduct a systematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Chen-Chen Zong , Sheng-Jun Huang

Consider a sequential active learning problem where, at each round, an agent selects a batch of unlabeled data points, queries their labels and updates a binary classifier. While there exists a rich body of work on active learning in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Abbas Kazerouni , Qi Zhao , Jing Xie , Sandeep Tata , Marc Najork

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial to modern deep learning applications by identifying and alerting about the OOD samples that should not be tested or used for making predictions. Current OOD detection methods have made…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Xinheng Wu , Jie Lu , Zhen Fang , Guangquan Zhang