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Gathering training data is a key step of any supervised learning task, and it is both critical and expensive. Critical, because the quantity and quality of the training data has a high impact on the performance of the learned function.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Quentin Lutz , Élie de Panafieu , Alex Scott , Maya Stein

We consider active learning under incentive compatibility constraints. The main application of our results is to economic experiments, in which a learner seeks to infer the parameters of a subject's preferences: for example their attitudes…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Federico Echenique , Siddharth Prasad

Counterfactual learning from observational data involves learning a classifier on an entire population based on data that is observed conditioned on a selection policy. This work considers this problem in an active setting, where the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-29 Songbai Yan , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Tara Javidi

We study active sampling algorithms for linear regression, which aim to query only a few entries of a target vector $b\in\mathbb R^n$ and output a near minimizer to $\min_{x\in\mathbb R^d} \|Ax-b\|$, for a design matrix $A\in\mathbb R^{n…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , David P. Woodruff , Taisuke Yasuda

Active learning (AL) aims to enable training high performance classifiers with low annotation cost by predicting which subset of unlabelled instances would be most beneficial to label. The importance of AL has motivated extensive research,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Kunkun Pang , Mingzhi Dong , Yang Wu , Timothy Hospedales

The primary challenge of multi-label active learning, differing it from multi-class active learning, lies in assessing the informativeness of an indefinite number of labels while also accounting for the inherited label correlation. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yuanyuan Qi , Jueqing Lu , Xiaohao Yang , Joanne Enticott , Lan Du

We study the problem of computationally and label efficient PAC active learning $d$-dimensional halfspaces with Tsybakov Noise~\citep{tsybakov2004optimal} under structured unlabeled data distributions. Inspired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yinan Li , Chicheng Zhang

In many practical applications of learning algorithms, unlabeled data is cheap and abundant whereas labeled data is expensive. Active learning algorithms developed to achieve better performance with lower cost. Usually Representativeness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-26 Hossein Ghafarian , Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi

We study the rates of convergence in generalization error achievable by active learning under various types of label noise. Additionally, we study the general problem of model selection for active learning with a nested hierarchy of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-10 Steve Hanneke

Active learning is a branch of machine learning that deals with problems where unlabeled data is abundant yet obtaining labels is expensive. The learning algorithm has the possibility of querying a limited number of samples to obtain the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-04 Hugo Cui , Luca Saglietti , Lenka Zdeborová

Most prior work on active learning of classifiers has focused on sequentially selecting one unlabeled example at a time to be labeled in order to reduce the overall labeling effort. In many scenarios, however, it is desirable to label an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Javad Azimi , Alan Fern , Xiaoli Zhang-Fern , Glencora Borradaile , Brent Heeringa

We study pool-based active learning with abstention feedbacks where a labeler can abstain from labeling a queried example with some unknown abstention rate. This is an important problem with many useful applications. We take a Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Cuong V. Nguyen , Lam Si Tung Ho , Huan Xu , Vu Dinh , Binh Nguyen

During recent years, active learning has evolved into a popular paradigm for utilizing user's feedback to improve accuracy of learning algorithms. Active learning works by selecting the most informative sample among unlabeled data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alireza Ghasemi , Hamid R. Rabiee , Mohsen Fadaee , Mohammad T. Manzuri , Mohammad H. Rohban

We study active learning where the labeler can not only return incorrect labels but also abstain from labeling. We consider different noise and abstention conditions of the labeler. We propose an algorithm which utilizes abstention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Songbai Yan , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Tara Javidi

Active learning is a label-efficient approach to train highly effective models while interactively selecting only small subsets of unlabelled data for labelling and training. In "open world" settings, the classes of interest can make up a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jifan Zhang , Julian Katz-Samuels , Robert Nowak

In this paper, we study the peak-aware energy scheduling problem using the competitive framework with machine learning prediction. With the uncertainty of energy demand as the fundamental challenge, the goal is to schedule the energy output…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Russell Lee , Mohammad H. Hajiesmaili , Jian Li

Active learning refers to the learning protocol where the learner is allowed to choose a subset of instances for labeling. Previous studies have shown that, compared with passive learning, active learning is able to reduce the label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Lijun Zhang , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Rong Jin

Active learning aims to reduce the labeling effort that is required to train algorithms by learning an acquisition function selecting the most relevant data for which a label should be requested from a large unlabeled data pool. Active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Javad Zolfaghari Bengar , Joost van de Weijer , Laura Lopez Fuentes , Bogdan Raducanu

Active learning is of great interest for many practical applications, especially in industry and the physical sciences, where there is a strong need to minimize the number of costly experiments necessary to train predictive models. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Maryam Pardakhti , Nila Mandal , Anson W. K. Ma , Qian Yang

A rational approximation by a ratio of polynomial functions is a flexible alternative to polynomial approximation. In particular, rational functions exhibit accurate estimations to nonsmooth and non- Lipschitz functions, where polynomial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-27 V. Peiris , N. Sharon , N. Sukhorukova J. Ugon