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Entity Matching (EM) is a core data cleaning task, aiming to identify different mentions of the same real-world entity. Active learning is one way to address the challenge of scarce labeled data in practice, by dynamically collecting the…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Venkata Vamsikrishna Meduri , Lucian Popa , Prithviraj Sen , Mohamed Sarwat

Active learning has been demonstrated effective to reduce labeling cost, while most progress has been designed for image recognition, there still lacks instance-level active learning for object detection. In this paper, we rethink two key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yuhang Zhang , Yuang Deng , Xiaopeng Zhang , Jie Li , Robert C. Qiu , Qi Tian

Medical image analysis requires substantial labeled data for model training, yet expert annotation is expensive and time-consuming. Active learning (AL) addresses this challenge by strategically selecting the most informative samples for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Ifrat Ikhtear Uddin , Longwei Wang , Xiao Qin , Yang Zhou , KC Santosh

Labeling data can be an expensive task as it is usually performed manually by domain experts. This is cumbersome for deep learning, as it is dependent on large labeled datasets. Active learning (AL) is a paradigm that aims to reduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Pieter Floris Jacobs , Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger , Marco Wiering , Lambert Schomaker

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

Various machine learning approaches have gained significant popularity for the automated classification of educational text to identify indicators of learning engagement -- i.e. learning engagement classification (LEC). LEC can offer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Shiqi Liu , Sannyuya Liu , Lele Sha , Zijie Zeng , Dragan Gasevic , Zhi Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant advances in reasoning tasks. A key approach is tree-based search with verifiers, which expand candidate reasoning paths and use reward models to guide pruning and selection. Although…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yingqian Cui , Zhenwei Dai , Pengfei He , Bing He , Hui Liu , Xianfeng Tang , Jingying Zeng , Suhang Wang , Yue Xing , Jiliang Tang , Benoit Dumoulin

Emerging Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 have revolutionized Natural Language Processing (NLP), showing potential in traditional tasks such as Named Entity Recognition (NER). Our study explores a three-phase training strategy that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yining Huang , Keke Tang , Meilian Chen

The quality of the dataset is crucial for ensuring optimal performance and reliability of downstream task models. However, datasets often contain noisy data inadvertently included during the construction process. Numerous attempts have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Juhwan Choi , Jungmin Yun , Kyohoon Jin , YoungBin Kim

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a range of text-generation tasks. However, LLMs still struggle with problems requiring multi-step decision-making and environmental feedback, such as online…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zhenfang Chen , Delin Chen , Rui Sun , Wenjun Liu , Chuang Gan

Large Language Models (LLMs) are highly accurate in classification tasks, however, substantial computational and financial costs hinder their large-scale deployment in dynamic environments. Knowledge Distillation (KD) where a LLM "teacher"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Viviana Luccioli , Rithika Iyengar , Ryan Panley , Flora Haberkorn , Xiaoyu Ge , Leland Crane , Nitish Sinha , Seung Jung Lee

Pose estimation of the human body and hands is a fundamental problem in computer vision, and learning-based solutions require a large amount of annotated data. In this work, we improve the efficiency of the data annotation process for 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Qi Feng , Kun He , He Wen , Cem Keskin , Yuting Ye

Segmentation is essential for medical image analysis tasks such as intervention planning, therapy guidance, diagnosis, treatment decisions. Deep learning is becoming increasingly prominent for segmentation, where the lack of annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Firat Ozdemir , Zixuan Peng , Christine Tanner , Philipp Fuernstahl , Orcun Goksel

Retrieval-augmented large language models (LLMs) have been remarkably competent in various NLP tasks. However, it was observed by previous works that retrieval is not always helpful, especially when the LLM is already knowledgeable on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Chengkai Huang , Yu Xia , Rui Wang , Kaige Xie , Tong Yu , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao

Multi-step planning has been widely employed to enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs) on downstream natural language processing (NLP) tasks, which decomposes the original task into multiple subtasks and guide LLMs to solve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zepeng Ding , Dixuan Wang , Ziqin Luo , Guochao Jiang , Deqing Yang , Jiaqing Liang

Active Learning (AL) is a human-in-the-loop framework to interactively and adaptively label data instances, thereby enabling significant gains in model performance compared to random sampling. AL approaches function by selecting the hardest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Nathan Beck , Krishnateja Killamsetty , Suraj Kothawade , Rishabh Iyer

Telephone transcription data can be very noisy due to speech recognition errors, disfluencies, etc. Not only that annotating such data is very challenging for the annotators, but also such data may have lots of annotation errors even after…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Cheng Chen , Xue-Yong Fu , Shashi Bhushan TN

Active learning (AL) is a training paradigm for selecting unlabeled samples for annotation to improve model performance on a test set, which is useful when only a limited number of samples can be annotated. These algorithms often work by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Lorenzo Jaime Yu Flores , Cesare Spinoso di-Piano , Ori Ernst , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Recent multilingual named entity recognition (NER) work has shown that large language models (LLMs) can provide effective synthetic supervision, yet such datasets have mostly appeared as by-products of broader experiments rather than as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jonas Golde , Patrick Haller , Alan Akbik

Large language models (LLMs) offer strategy researchers powerful tools for annotating text at scale, but treating LLM-generated labels as deterministic overlooks substantial instability. Grounded in content analysis and generalizability…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Arnaldo Camuffo , Alfonso Gambardella , Saeid Kazemi , Jakub Malachowski , Abhinav Pandey