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The field of Natural Language Generation (NLG) suffers from a severe shortage of labeled data due to the extremely expensive and time-consuming process involved in manual annotation. A natural approach for coping with this problem is active…

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State-of-the-art machine learning models require access to significant amount of annotated data in order to achieve the desired level of performance. While unlabelled data can be largely available and even abundant, annotation process can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Rahaf Aljundi , Nikolay Chumerin , Daniel Olmeda Reino

Active learning (AL) seeks to reduce annotation costs by selecting the most informative samples for labeling, making it particularly valuable in resource-constrained settings. However, traditional evaluation methods, which focus solely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Julia Machnio , Mads Nielsen , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

Active learning (AL) aims to select the most useful data samples from an unlabeled data pool and annotate them to expand the labeled dataset under a limited budget. Especially, uncertainty-based methods choose the most uncertain samples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Seong Min Kye , Kwanghee Choi , Hyeongmin Byun , Buru Chang

Active learning (AL) is an effective approach to select the most informative samples to label so as to reduce the annotation cost. Existing AL methods typically work under the closed-set assumption, i.e., all classes existing in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Linhao Qu , Yingfan Ma , Zhiwei Yang , Manning Wang , Zhijian Song

Active learning (AL) is a label-efficient machine learning paradigm that focuses on selectively annotating high-value instances to maximize learning efficiency. Its effectiveness can be further enhanced by incorporating weak supervision,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shinnosuke Matsuo , Riku Togashi , Ryoma Bise , Seiichi Uchida , Masahiro Nomura

Active learning (AL) techniques optimally utilize a labeling budget by iteratively selecting instances that are most valuable for learning. However, they lack ``prerequisite checks'', i.e., there are no prescribed criteria to pick an AL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Abhishek Ghose , Emma Thuong Nguyen

Active Learning (AL) is a powerful tool for learning with less labeled data, in particular, for specialized domains, like legal documents, where unlabeled data is abundant, but the annotation requires domain expertise and is thus expensive.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Sepideh Mamooler , Rémi Lebret , Stéphane Massonnet , Karl Aberer

In many classification problems unlabelled data is abundant and a subset can be chosen for labelling. This defines the context of active learning (AL), where methods systematically select that subset, to improve a classifier by retraining.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-07-31 Lewis P. G. Evans , Niall M. Adams , Christoforos Anagnostopoulos

In supervised learning, acquiring labeled training data for a predictive model can be very costly, but acquiring a large amount of unlabeled data is often quite easy. Active learning is a method of obtaining predictive models with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Hideitsu Hino

Active learning (AL) is a sequential learning scheme aiming to select the most informative data. AL reduces data consumption and avoids the cost of labeling large amounts of data. However, AL trains the model and solves an acquisition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Cen-You Li , Marc Toussaint , Barbara Rakitsch , Christoph Zimmer

Active learning aims to reduce labeling costs by selecting only the most informative samples on a dataset. Few existing works have addressed active learning for object detection. Most of these methods are based on multiple models or are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jiwoong Choi , Ismail Elezi , Hyuk-Jae Lee , Clement Farabet , Jose M. Alvarez

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

We propose a new active learning (AL) method for text classification with convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In AL, one selects the instances to be manually labeled with the aim of maximizing model performance with minimal effort. Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Ye Zhang , Matthew Lease , Byron C. Wallace

Exfiltration of data via email is a serious cybersecurity threat for many organizations. Detecting data exfiltration (anomaly) patterns typically requires labeling, most often done by a human annotator, to reduce the high number of false…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jaturong Kongmanee , Mark Chignell , Khilan Jerath , Abhay Raman

Obtaining reliable and accurate quantification of uncertainty estimates from deep neural networks is important in safety-critical applications. A well-calibrated model should be accurate when it is certain about its prediction and indicate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Ranganath Krishnan , Omesh Tickoo

Despite the great promise of machine-learning algorithms to classify and predict astrophysical parameters for the vast numbers of astrophysical sources and transients observed in large-scale surveys, the peculiarities of the training data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Joseph W. Richards , Dan L. Starr , Henrik Brink , Adam A. Miller , Joshua S. Bloom , Nathaniel R. Butler , J. Berian James , James P. Long , John Rice

Active learning (AL) accelerates scientific discovery by prioritizing the most informative experiments, but traditional machine learning (ML) models used in AL suffer from cold-start limitations and domain-specific feature engineering,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Hongchen Wang , Rafael Espinosa Castañeda , Jay R. Werber , Yao Fehlis , Edward Kim , Jason Hattrick-Simpers

Deep predictive models rely on human supervision in the form of labeled training data. Obtaining large amounts of annotated training data can be expensive and time consuming, and this becomes a critical bottleneck while building such models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-01 Bindya Venkatesh , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan

Machine Learning (ML) is widely used to automatically extract meaningful information from Electronic Health Records (EHR) to support operational, clinical, and financial decision-making. However, ML models require a large number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Martha Dais Ferreira , Michal Malyska , Nicola Sahar , Riccardo Miotto , Fernando Paulovich , Evangelos Milios