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While annotating decent amounts of data to satisfy sophisticated learning models can be cost-prohibitive for many real-world applications. Active learning (AL) and semi-supervised learning (SSL) are two effective, but often isolated, means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Jiannan Guo , Yangyang Kang , Yu Duan , Xiaozhong Liu , Siliang Tang , Wenqiao Zhang , Kun Kuang , Changlong Sun , Fei Wu

One of the biggest challenges that complicates applied supervised machine learning is the need for huge amounts of labeled data. Active Learning (AL) is a well-known standard method for efficiently obtaining labeled data by first labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Julius Gonsior , Maik Thiele , Wolfgang Lehner

While deep learning (DL) is data-hungry and usually relies on extensive labeled data to deliver good performance, Active Learning (AL) reduces labeling costs by selecting a small proportion of samples from unlabeled data for labeling and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Xueying Zhan , Qingzhong Wang , Kuan-hao Huang , Haoyi Xiong , Dejing Dou , Antoni B. Chan

A major problem with Active Learning (AL) is high training costs since models are typically retrained from scratch after every query round. We start by demonstrating that standard AL on neural networks with warm starting fails, both to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Arnav Das , Gantavya Bhatt , Megh Bhalerao , Vianne Gao , Rui Yang , Jeff Bilmes

Large-scale labeled dataset is the indispensable fuel that ignites the AI revolution as we see today. Most such datasets are constructed using crowdsourcing services such as Amazon Mechanical Turk which provides noisy labels from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Chong Liu , Yu-Xiang Wang

Training a quantum machine learning model generally requires a large labeled dataset, which incurs high labeling and computational costs. To reduce such costs, a selective training strategy, called active learning (AL), chooses only a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-04 Chen Ding , Xiao-Yue Xu , Yun-Fei Niu , Shuo Zhang , Wan-Su Bao , He-Liang Huang

Annotating data is a time-consuming and costly task, but it is inherently required for supervised machine learning. Active Learning (AL) is an established method that minimizes human labeling effort by iteratively selecting the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Julius Gonsior , Tim Rieß , Anja Reusch , Claudio Hartmann , Maik Thiele , Wolfgang Lehner

Deep learning (DL) algorithms rely on massive amounts of labeled data. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) and active learning (AL) aim to reduce this label complexity by leveraging unlabeled data or carefully acquiring labels, respectively. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Seo Taek Kong , Soomin Jeon , Dongbin Na , Jaewon Lee , Hong-Seok Lee , Kyu-Hwan Jung

Active learning(AL), which serves as the representative label-efficient learning paradigm, has been widely applied in resource-constrained scenarios. The achievement of AL is attributed to acquisition functions, which are designed for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yuhan Zhi , Longtian Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Chao Shen , Qiang Hu , Xiaohong Guan

Smart devices with built-in sensors, computational capabilities, and network connectivity have become increasingly pervasive. The crowds of smart devices offer opportunities to collectively sense and perform computing tasks in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Jihun Hamm , Adam Champion , Guoxing Chen , Mikhail Belkin , Dong Xuan

Modern machine learning algorithms need large datasets to be trained. Crowdsourcing has become a popular approach to label large datasets in a shorter time as well as at a lower cost comparing to that needed for a limited number of experts.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Alexey Drutsa , Viktoriya Farafonova , Valentina Fedorova , Olga Megorskaya , Evfrosiniya Zerminova , Olga Zhilinskaya

Learning representation has been proven to be helpful in numerous machine learning tasks. The success of the majority of existing representation learning approaches often requires a large amount of consistent and noise-free labels. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Guowei Xu , Wenbiao Ding , Jiliang Tang , Songfan Yang , Gale Yan Huang , Zitao Liu

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

The extensive use of online social media has highlighted the importance of privacy in the digital space. As more scientists analyse the data created in these platforms, privacy concerns have extended to data usage within the academia.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Giannis Haralabopoulos , Ioannis Anagnostopoulos

Crowdsourcing is an economic and efficient strategy aimed at collecting annotations of data through an online platform. Crowd workers with different expertise are paid for their service, and the task requester usually has a limited budget.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Jinzheng Tu , Guoxian Yu , Carlotta Domeniconi , Jun Wang , Xiangliang Zhang

We introduce Information Condensing Active Learning (ICAL), a batch mode model agnostic Active Learning (AL) method targeted at Deep Bayesian Active Learning that focuses on acquiring labels for points which have as much information as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Siddhartha Jain , Ge Liu , David Gifford

We propose Cartography Active Learning (CAL), a novel Active Learning (AL) algorithm that exploits the behavior of the model on individual instances during training as a proxy to find the most informative instances for labeling. CAL is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Mike Zhang , Barbara Plank

Active Learning (AL) and Semi-supervised Learning are two techniques that have been studied to reduce the high cost of deep learning by using a small amount of labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data. To improve the accuracy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Jaeseung Lim , Jongkeun Na , Nojun Kwak

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

In this paper, we explore how to efficiently combine crowdsourcing and machine intelligence for the problem of document screening, where we need to screen documents with a set of machine-learning filters. Specifically, we focus on building…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Evgeny Krivosheev , Burcu Sayin , Alessandro Bozzon , Zoltán Szlávik