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Modern AI algorithms require labeled data. In real world, majority of data are unlabeled. Labeling the data are costly. this is particularly true for some areas requiring special skills, such as reading radiology images by physicians. To…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-31 Yiran Huang , Jian-Feng Yang , Haoda Fu

The performance of deep learning models in remote sensing (RS) strongly depends on the availability of high-quality labeled data. However, collecting large-scale annotations is costly and time-consuming, while vast amounts of unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wei Huang , Zhitong Xiong , Chenying Liu , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Active Learning methods create an optimized labeled training set from unlabeled data. We introduce a novel Online Active Deep Learning method for Medical Image Analysis. We extend our MedAL active learning framework to present new results…

We propose Information-Theoretic Active Learning (ITAL), a novel batch-mode active learning method for binary classification, and apply it for acquiring meaningful user feedback in the context of content-based image retrieval. Instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Björn Barz , Christoph Käding , Joachim Denzler

Software systems increasingly include AI components based on deep learning (DL). Reliable testing of such systems requires near-perfect test-input validity and label accuracy, with minimal human effort. Yet, the DL community has largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Mohammad Hossein Amini , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh , Shiva Nejati

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

Food image classification is essential for monitoring health and tracking dietary in image-based dietary assessment methods. However, conventional systems often rely on static datasets with fixed classes and uniform distribution. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Siddeshwar Raghavan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Active learning algorithms automatically identify the most informative samples from large amounts of unlabeled data and tremendously reduce human annotation effort in inducing a machine learning model. In a conventional active learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Varun Totakura , Ankita Singh , Yushun Dong , Shayok Chakraborty

In applying reinforcement learning (RL) to high-stakes domains, quantitative and qualitative evaluation using observational data can help practitioners understand the generalization performance of new policies. However, this type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Shengpu Tang , Jenna Wiens

Online matching problems arise in many complex systems, from cloud services and online marketplaces to organ exchange networks, where timely, principled decisions are critical for maintaining high system performance. Traditional heuristics…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-09 Chiara Mignacco , Matthieu Jonckheere , Gilles Stoltz

Machine Learning (ML) is widely used to automatically extract meaningful information from Electronic Health Records (EHR) to support operational, clinical, and financial decision-making. However, ML models require a large number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Martha Dais Ferreira , Michal Malyska , Nicola Sahar , Riccardo Miotto , Fernando Paulovich , Evangelos Milios

We study actively labeling streaming data, where an active learner is faced with a stream of data points and must carefully choose which of these points to label via an expensive experiment. Such problems frequently arise in applications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ting Cai , Kirthevasan Kandasamy

Most Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods are traditionally studied in an active learning setting, where agents directly interact with their environments, observe action outcomes, and learn through trial and error. However, allowing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Maryam Zare , Parham M. Kebria , Abbas Khosravi

Successful Artificial Intelligence systems often require numerous labeled data to extract information from document images. In this paper, we investigate the problem of improving the performance of Artificial Intelligence systems in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Bao-Sinh Nguyen , Dung Tien Le , Hieu M. Vu , Tuan Anh D. Nguyen , Minh-Tien Nguyen , Hung Le

The rapid advancement in capabilities of large language models (LLMs) raises a pivotal question: How can LLMs accelerate scientific discovery? This work tackles the crucial first stage of research, generating novel hypotheses. While recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Aniketh Garikaparthi , Manasi Patwardhan , Lovekesh Vig , Arman Cohan

Imagine if AI decision-support tools not only complemented our ability to make accurate decisions, but also improved our skills, boosted collaboration, and elevated the joy we derive from our tasks. Despite the potential to optimize a broad…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Zana Buçinca , Siddharth Swaroop , Amanda E. Paluch , Susan A. Murphy , Krzysztof Z. Gajos

Active learning has been proposed to reduce data annotation efforts by only manually labelling representative data samples for training. Meanwhile, recent active learning applications have benefited a lot from cloud computing services with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yu-Tong Cao , Jingya Wang , Baosheng Yu , Dacheng Tao

Algorithm selection is commonly used to predict the best solver from a portfolio per per-instance. In many real scenarios, instances arrive in a stream: new instances become available over time, while the number of class labels can also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mate Botond Nemeth , Emma Hart , Kevin Sim , Quentin Renau

Pretrained on web-scale open data, VLMs offer powerful capabilities for solving downstream tasks after being adapted to task-specific labeled data. Yet, data labeling can be expensive and may demand domain expertise. Active Learning (AL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tong Wang , Jiaqi Wang , Shu Kong

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) is vital in areas where active data collection is expensive or infeasible, such as robotics or healthcare. In the real world, offline datasets often involve multiple domains that share the same state and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Soichiro Nishimori , Xin-Qiang Cai , Johannes Ackermann , Masashi Sugiyama