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Active learning improves the performance of machine learning methods by judiciously selecting a limited number of unlabeled data points to query for labels, with the aim of maximally improving the underlying classifier's performance. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 James Chapman , Bohan Chen , Zheng Tan , Jeff Calder , Kevin Miller , Andrea L. Bertozzi

Despite the vast body of literature on Active Learning (AL), there is no comprehensive and open benchmark allowing for efficient and simple comparison of proposed samplers. Additionally, the variability in experimental settings across the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 W. Jonas , A. Abraham , L. Dreyfus-Schmidt

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

Analysis of molecular scale interactions and chemical structure offers an enormous opportunity to tune material properties for targeted applications. However, designing materials from molecular scale is a grand challenge owing to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-19 Praneeth S Ramesh , Tarak K Patra

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful strategy for representation learning under limited annotation regimes, yet its effectiveness remains highly sensitive to many factors, especially the nature of the target task. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jorge Quesada , Ghassan AlRegib

We propose a statistical adaptive procedure called SALSA for automatically scheduling the learning rate (step size) in stochastic gradient methods. SALSA first uses a smoothed stochastic line-search procedure to gradually increase the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-26 Pengchuan Zhang , Hunter Lang , Qiang Liu , Lin Xiao

Deep neural networks are increasingly applied in automated histopathology. Yet, whole-slide images (WSIs) are often acquired at gigapixel sizes, rendering them computationally infeasible to analyze entirely at high resolution. Diagnostic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Tarun G , Naman Malpani , Gugan Thoppe , Sridharan Devarajan

State-of-the-art techniques of artificial intelligence, in particular deep learning, are mostly data-driven. However, collecting and manually labeling a large scale dataset is both difficult and expensive. A promising alternative is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Qi Chen , Weichao Qiu , Yi Zhang , Lingxi Xie , Alan Yuille

State-of-the-art methods for semantic segmentation are based on deep neural networks trained on large-scale labeled datasets. Acquiring such datasets would incur large annotation costs, especially for dense pixel-level prediction tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Lile Cai , Xun Xu , Lining Zhang , Chuan-Sheng Foo

Active learning (AL) has found wide applications in medical image segmentation, aiming to alleviate the annotation workload and enhance performance. Conventional uncertainty-based AL methods, such as entropy and Bayesian, often rely on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Siteng Ma , Haochang Wu , Aonghus Lawlor , Ruihai Dong

Biological network alignment is currently in a state of disarray, with more than two dozen network alignment tools having been introduced in the past decade, with no clear winner, and other new tools being published almost quarterly. Part…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-06 Dillon P. Kanne , Wayne B. Hayes

The alignment of biological networks has the potential to teach us as much about biology and disease as has sequence alignment. Sequence alignment can be optimally solved in polynomial time. In contrast, network alignment is $NP$-hard,…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-07-12 Nil Mamano , Wayne Hayes

Cell image segmentation is usually implemented using fully supervised deep learning methods, which heavily rely on extensive annotated training data. Yet, due to the complexity of cell morphology and the requirement for specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Yu Zhu , Qiang Yang , Li Xu

Building state-of-the-art (SOTA) predictive models for drug discovery requires expensive search over tools, architectures, and training strategies. Current LLM-based agents can find SOTA solutions through extensive trial and error, but they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yikun Zhang , Xiwei Cheng , Tianyu Liu , Yuanqi Du , Wengong Jin

Accurate instrument segmentation in endoscopic vision of robot-assisted surgery is challenging due to reflection on the instruments and frequent contacts with tissue. Deep neural networks (DNN) show competitive performance and are in favor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Haonan Peng , Shan Lin , Daniel King , Yun-Hsuan Su , Randall A. Bly , Kris S. Moe , Blake Hannaford

This paper proposes asal, a new GAN based active learning method that generates high entropy samples. Instead of directly annotating the synthetic samples, ASAL searches similar samples from the pool and includes them for training. Hence,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Christoph Mayer , Radu Timofte

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

The constrained nature of synthesizable chemical space poses a significant challenge for sampling molecules that are both synthetically accessible and possess desired properties. In this work, we present PrexSyn, an efficient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shitong Luo , Connor W. Coley

The rapid growth of dataset scales has been a key driver in advancing deep learning research. However, as dataset scale increases, the training process becomes increasingly inefficient due to the presence of low-value samples, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Qing Zhou , Junyu Gao , Qi Wang

High dimensional nonparametric regression is an inherently difficult problem with known lower bounds depending exponentially in dimension. A popular strategy to alleviate this curse of dimensionality has been to use additive models of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-26 Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Yaoliang Yu