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The paper covers the design and analysis of experiments to discriminate between two Gaussian process models, such as those widely used in computer experiments, kriging, sensor location and machine learning. Two frameworks are considered.…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-22 Elham Yousefi , Luc Pronzato , Markus Hainy , Werner G. Müller , Henry P. Wynn

The efficient collection of samples is an important factor in outdoor information gathering applications on account of high sampling costs such as time, energy, and potential destruction to the environment. Utilization of available a-priori…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Nicholas Harrison , Nathan Wallace , Salah Sukkarieh

A new type of experiment that aims to determine the optimal quantities of a sequence of factors is eliciting considerable attention in medical science, bioengineering, and many other disciplines. Such studies require the simultaneous…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-14 Qian Xiao , Yaping Wang , Abhyuday Mandal , Xinwei Deng

Collaborative filtering is a useful technique for exploiting the preference patterns of a group of users to predict the utility of items for the active user. In general, the performance of collaborative filtering depends on the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Rong Jin , Luo Si

Active learning shows promise to decrease test bench time for model-based drivability calibration. This paper presents a new strategy for active output selection, which suits the needs of calibration tasks. The strategy is actively learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Adrian Prochaska , Julien Pillas , Bernard Bäker

Active learning methods for neural networks are usually based on greedy criteria which ultimately give a single new design point for the evaluation. Such an approach requires either some heuristics to sample a batch of design points at one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Evgenii Tsymbalov , Sergei Makarychev , Alexander Shapeev , Maxim Panov

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

Space-filling designs are crucial for efficient computer experiments, enabling accurate surrogate modeling and uncertainty quantification in many scientific and engineering applications, such as digital twin systems and cyber-physical…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-06 Xinwei Deng , Lulu Kang , C. Devon Lin

Computer experiments have become ubiquitous in science and engineering. Commonly, runs of these simulations demand considerable time and computing, making experimental design extremely important in gaining high quality information with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Benjamin Haaland , Wenjia Wang , Vaibhav Maheshwari

Classification is an important task in many fields including biomedical research and machine learning. Traditionally, a classification rule is constructed based a bunch of labeled data. Recently, due to technological innovation and…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-06-19 Jing Wang , Eunsik Park , Yuan-chin Ivan Chang

Experimental exploration of high-cost systems with safety constraints, common in engineering applications, is a challenging endeavor. Data-driven models offer a promising solution, but acquiring the requisite data remains expensive and is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Markus Lange-Hegermann , Christoph Zimmer

Contour location$\unicode{x2014}$the process of sequentially training a surrogate model to identify the design inputs that result in a pre-specified response value from a single computer experiment$\unicode{x2014}$is a well-studied active…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-16 Shih-Ni Prim , Kevin R. Quinlan , Paul Hawkins , Jagadeesh Movva , Annie S. Booth

The goal of imitation learning is to mimic expert behavior from demonstrations, without access to an explicit reward signal. A popular class of approach infers the (unknown) reward function via inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) followed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Carl Qi , Pieter Abbeel , Aditya Grover

As an important data selection schema, active learning emerges as the essential component when iterating an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model. It becomes even more critical given the dominance of deep neural network based models, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Rinyoichi Takezoe , Xu Liu , Shunan Mao , Marco Tianyu Chen , Zhanpeng Feng , Shiliang Zhang , Xiaoyu Wang

The discovery of new energetic materials is critical for advancing technologies from defense to private industry. However, experimental approaches remain slow and expensive while computational alternatives require accurate material property…

Science and Engineering applications are typically associated with expensive optimization problems to identify optimal design solutions and states of the system of interest. Bayesian optimization and active learning compute surrogate models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Francesco Di Fiore , Michela Nardelli , Laura Mainini

The repeated solution of large-scale optimization problems arises frequently in process systems engineering tasks. Decomposition-based solution methods have been widely used to reduce the corresponding computational time, yet their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Ilias Mitrai , Prodromos Daoutidis

In this work we present a general machine learning based scheme to optimize experimental control. The method utilizes the neural network to learn the relation between the control parameters and the control goal, with which the optimal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-03 Yadong Wu , Zengming Meng , Kai Wen , Chengdong Mi , Jing Zhang , Hui Zhai

In drug discovery, highly automated high-throughput laboratories are used to screen a large number of compounds in search of effective drugs. These experiments are expensive, so one might hope to reduce their cost by only experimenting on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ihor Neporozhnii , Julien Roy , Emmanuel Bengio , Jason Hartford

We propose a general purpose active learning algorithm for structured prediction, gathering labeled data for training a model that outputs a set of related labels for an image or video. Active learning starts with a limited initial training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Mehran Khodabandeh , Zhiwei Deng , Mostafa S. Ibrahim , Shinichi Satoh , Greg Mori