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Active learning (AL) is a widely-used training strategy for maximizing predictive performance subject to a fixed annotation budget. In AL one iteratively selects training examples for annotation, often those for which the current model is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 David Lowell , Zachary C. Lipton , Byron C. Wallace

Active Learning (AL) has emerged as a powerful approach for minimizing labeling costs by selectively sampling the most informative data for neural network model development. Effective AL for large-scale vision-language models necessitates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Athmanarayanan Lakshmi Narayanan , Amrutha Machireddy , Ranganath Krishnan

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

Active Learning (AL) addresses the crucial challenge of enabling machines to efficiently gather labeled examples through strategic queries. Among the many AL strategies, Uncertainty Sampling (US) stands out as one of the most widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Po-Yi Lu , Yi-Jie Cheng , Chun-Liang Li , Hsuan-Tien Lin

High-quality arguments are an essential part of decision-making. Automatically predicting the quality of an argument is a complex task that recently got much attention in argument mining. However, the annotation effort for this task is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Nataliia Kees , Michael Fromm , Evgeniy Faerman , Thomas Seidl

Modern online advertising systems inevitably rely on personalization methods, such as click-through rate (CTR) prediction. Recent progress in CTR prediction enjoys the rich representation capabilities of deep learning and achieves great…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Chao Du , Zhifeng Gao , Shuo Yuan , Lining Gao , Ziyan Li , Yifan Zeng , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Jian Xu , Kun Gai , Kuang-chih Lee

Deep learning models for natural language processing rely heavily on high-quality labeled datasets. However, existing labeling approaches often struggle to balance label quality with labeling cost. To address this challenge, we propose…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Guozheng Li , Ao Wang , Shaoxiang Wang , Yu Zhang , Pengcheng Cao , Yang Bai , Chi Harold Liu

Common acquisition functions for active learning use either uncertainty or diversity sampling, aiming to select difficult and diverse data points from the pool of unlabeled data, respectively. In this work, leveraging the best of both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Katerina Margatina , Giorgos Vernikos , Loïc Barrault , Nikolaos Aletras

Neural Network-based active learning (NAL) is a cost-effective data selection technique that utilizes neural networks to select and train on a small subset of samples. While existing work successfully develops various effective or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Dake Bu , Wei Huang , Taiji Suzuki , Ji Cheng , Qingfu Zhang , Zhiqiang Xu , Hau-San Wong

Active Learning aims to optimize performance while minimizing annotation costs by selecting the most informative samples from an unlabelled pool. Traditional uncertainty sampling often leads to sampling bias by choosing similar uncertain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Tejaswi Kasarla , Abhishek Jha , Faye Tervoort , Rita Cucchiara , Pascal Mettes

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

Active learning theories and methods have been extensively studied in classical statistical learning settings. However, deep active learning, i.e., active learning with deep learning models, is usually based on empirical criteria without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Haonan Wang , Wei Huang , Ziwei Wu , Andrew Margenot , Hanghang Tong , Jingrui He

Unsupervised domain adaptation generalizes neural retrievers to an unseen domain by generating pseudo queries on target domain documents. The quality and efficiency of this adaptation critically depend on which documents are selected for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jongyoon Kim , Minseong Hwang , Seung-won Hwang

Active learning has emerged as a promising approach to reduce the substantial annotation burden in 3D object detection tasks, spurring several initiatives in outdoor environments. However, its application in indoor environments remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jiangyi Wang , Na Zhao

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Rishi Hazra , Parag Dutta , Shubham Gupta , Mohammed Abdul Qaathir , Ambedkar Dukkipati

AI deployed in many real-world use cases should be capable of adapting to novelties encountered after deployment. Here, we consider a challenging, under-explored and realistic continual adaptation problem: a deployed AI agent is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Amanda Rios , Ibrahima Ndiour , Parual Datta , Jerry Sydir , Omesh Tickoo , Nilesh Ahuja

Multi-domain learning (MDL) refers to learning a set of models simultaneously, where each model is specialized to perform a task in a particular domain. Generally, a high labeling effort is required in MDL, as data needs to be labeled by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Rui He , Shengcai Liu , Shan He , Ke Tang

Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown unprecedented success in the field of computer vision, especially on challenging image classification tasks by relying on a universal approach, i.e., training a deep model on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Johan Phan , Massimiliano Ruocco , Francesco Scibilia

Comprehending natural language and following human instructions are critical capabilities for intelligent agents. However, the flexibility of linguistic instructions induces substantial ambiguity across language-conditioned tasks, severely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Runpeng Xie , Quanwei Wang , Hao Hu , Zherui Zhou , Ni Mu , Xiyun Li , Yiqin Yang , Shuang Xu , Qianchuan Zhao , Bo XU

Dialogue Acts (DAs) can be used to explain what expert tutors do and what students know during the tutoring process. Most empirical studies adopt the random sampling method to obtain sentence samples for manual annotation of DAs, which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Wei Tan , Jionghao Lin , David Lang , Guanliang Chen , Dragan Gasevic , Lan Du , Wray Buntine