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Currently there are several well-known approaches to non-intrusive appliance load monitoring rule based, stochastic finite state machines, neural networks and sparse coding. Recently several studies have proposed a new approach based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Vanika Singhal , Jyoti Maggu , Angshul Majumdar

Non-intrusive Appliance Load Monitoring (NALM) aims to recognize individual appliance usage from the main meter without indoor sensors. However, existing systems struggle to balance dataset construction efficiency and event/state…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Zijian Wang , Xingzhou Zhang , Yifan Wang , Xiaohui Peng , Zhiwei Xu

Active learning (AL) seeks to reduce annotation costs by selecting the most informative samples for labeling, making it particularly valuable in resource-constrained settings. However, traditional evaluation methods, which focus solely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Julia Machnio , Mads Nielsen , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

In this paper, we present a novel active beam learning method for in-band full-duplex wireless systems, that aims to design transmit and receive beams which suppress self-interference and maximize the sum spectral efficiency. Rather than…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Jeong Min Kong , Ian P. Roberts

The expansion of residential demand response programs and increased deployment of controllable loads will require accurate appliance-level load modeling and forecasting. This paper proposes a conditional hidden semi-Markov model to describe…

Applications · Statistics 2018-10-10 Yuting Ji , Elizabeth Buechler , Ram Rajagopal

Active learning (AL) algorithms aim to identify an optimal subset of data for annotation, such that deep neural networks (DNN) can achieve better performance when trained on this labeled subset. AL is especially impactful in industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Zeyad Ali Sami Emam , Hong-Min Chu , Ping-Yeh Chiang , Wojciech Czaja , Richard Leapman , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

With the growth of smart building applications, occupancy information in residential buildings is becoming more and more significant. In the context of the smart buildings' paradigm, this kind of information is required for a wide range of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-26 Sangkeum Lee , Sarvar Hussain Nengroo , Hojun Jin , Yoonmee Doh , Chungho Lee , Taewook Heo , Dongsoo Har

Active learning (AL) is a machine learning (ML) approach that strategically selects the most informative samples for annotation during training, aiming to minimize annotation costs. This strategy not only reduces labeling expenses but also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Cédric Jung , Shirin Salehi , Anke Schmeink

Efficient materials discovery requires reducing costly first-principles calculations for training machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs). We develop an active learning (AL) framework that iteratively selects informative structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Mohammed Azeez Khan , Aaron D'Souza , Vijay Choyal

The aim of Active Learning is to select the most informative samples from an unlabelled set of data. This is useful in cases where the amount of data is large and labelling is expensive, such as in machine vision or medical imaging. Two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Julien Combes , Alexandre Derville , Jean-François Coeurjolly

We develop a scalable, computationally efficient method for the task of energy disaggregation for home appliance monitoring. In this problem the goal is to estimate the energy consumption of each appliance over time based on the total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Kiarash Shaloudegi , András György , Csaba Szepesvári , Wilsun Xu

Behavioral models are the key enablers for behavioral analysis of Software Product Lines (SPL), including testing and model checking. Active model learning comes to the rescue when family behavioral models are non-existent or outdated. A…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Shaghayegh Tavassoli , Carlos Diego Nascimento Damasceno , Mohammad Reza Mousavi , Ramtin Khosravi

Given a labeled training set and a collection of unlabeled data, the goal of active learning (AL) is to identify the best unlabeled points to label. In this comprehensive study, we analyze the performance of a variety of AL algorithms on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Dara Bahri , Heinrich Jiang , Tal Schuster , Afshin Rostamizadeh

Active Learning is concerned with the question of how to identify the most useful samples for a Machine Learning algorithm to be trained with. When applied correctly, it can be a very powerful tool to counteract the immense data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Lukas Hahn , Lutz Roese-Koerner , Peet Cremer , Urs Zimmermann , Ori Maoz , Anton Kummert

The development of X-Ray microscopy (XRM) technology has enabled non-destructive inspection of semiconductor structures for defect identification. Deep learning is widely used as the state-of-the-art approach to perform visual analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Lile Cai , Ramanpreet Singh Pahwa , Xun Xu , Jie Wang , Richard Chang , Lining Zhang , Chuan-Sheng Foo

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance on a wide range of downstream computer vision tasks. However, there still exists a considerable performance gap between these models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Bardia Safaei , Vishal M. Patel

Choice of load signature or feature space is one of the most fundamental design choices for non-intrusive load monitoring or energy disaggregation problem. Electrical power quantities, harmonic load characteristics, canonical transient and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-08-16 Taha Hassan , Fahad Javed , Naveed Arshad

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

Despite recent advancements, NLP models continue to be vulnerable to bias. This bias often originates from the uneven distribution of real-world data and can propagate through the annotation process. Escalated integration of these models in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Sabit Hassan , Malihe Alikhani

We derive and analyze a new, efficient, pool-based active learning algorithm for halfspaces, called ALuMA. Most previous algorithms show exponential improvement in the label complexity assuming that the distribution over the instance space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Alon Gonen , Sivan Sabato , Shai Shalev-Shwartz