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Given $k$ pre-trained classifiers and a stream of unlabeled data examples, how can we actively decide when to query a label so that we can distinguish the best model from the rest while making a small number of queries? Answering this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mohammad Reza Karimi , Nezihe Merve Gürel , Bojan Karlaš , Johannes Rausch , Ce Zhang , Andreas Krause

Active learning (AL) for multiple target models aims to reduce labeled data querying while effectively training multiple models concurrently. Existing AL algorithms often rely on iterative model training, which can be computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Sheng-Jun Huang , Yi Li , Yiming Sun , Ying-Peng Tang

We consider the problem of active domain adaptation (ADA) to unlabeled target data, of which subset is actively selected and labeled given a budget constraint. Inspired by recent analysis on a critical issue from label distribution mismatch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Sehyun Hwang , Sohyun Lee , Sungyeon Kim , Jungseul Ok , Suha Kwak

Active learning aims to identify the most informative data from an unlabeled data pool that enables a model to reach the desired accuracy rapidly. This benefits especially deep neural networks which generally require a huge number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jihyo Kim , Jeonghyeon Kim , Sangheum Hwang

In many industrial applications, obtaining labeled observations is not straightforward as it often requires the intervention of human experts or the use of expensive testing equipment. In these circumstances, active learning can be highly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-19 Davide Cacciarelli , Murat Kulahci , John Sølve Tyssedal

Pre-trained Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated notable progress in various zero-shot tasks, such as classification and retrieval. Despite their performance, because improving performance on new tasks requires task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jihwan Bang , Sumyeong Ahn , Jae-Gil Lee

Active preference learning offers an efficient approach to modeling preferences, but it is hindered by the cold-start problem, which leads to a marked decline in performance when no initial labeled data are available. While cold-start…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Mojtaba Fayaz-Bakhsh , Danial Ataee , MohammadAmin Fazli

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

Active learning is a paradigm aimed at reducing the annotation effort by training the model on actively selected informative and/or representative samples. Another paradigm to reduce the annotation effort is self-training that learns from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Javad Zolfaghari Bengar , Joost van de Weijer , Bartlomiej Twardowski , Bogdan Raducanu

The increasing reliance on human preference feedback to judge AI-generated pseudo labels has created a pressing need for principled, budget-conscious data acquisition strategies. We address the crucial question of how to optimally allocate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-13 Zihan Dong , Xiaotian Hou , Ruijia Wu , Linjun Zhang

We design an active learning algorithm for cost-sensitive multiclass classification: problems where different errors have different costs. Our algorithm, COAL, makes predictions by regressing to each label's cost and predicting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Akshay Krishnamurthy , Alekh Agarwal , Tzu-Kuo Huang , Hal Daume , John Langford

Active learning identifies data points to label that are expected to be the most useful in improving a supervised model. Opportunistic active learning incorporates active learning into interactive tasks that constrain possible queries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Aishwarya Padmakumar , Peter Stone , Raymond J. Mooney

Active testing enables label-efficient evaluation of predictive models through careful data acquisition, but it can pose a significant computational cost. We identify cost-saving measures that enable active testing to be scaled up to large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Gabrielle Berrada , Jannik Kossen , Freddie Bickford Smith , Muhammed Razzak , Yarin Gal , Tom Rainforth

Active learning, which effectively collects informative unlabeled data for annotation, reduces the demand for labeled data. In this work, we propose to retrieve unlabeled samples with a local sensitivity and hardness-aware acquisition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Shujian Zhang , Chengyue Gong , Xingchao Liu , Pengcheng He , Weizhu Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

Imaging in clinical routine is subject to changing scanner protocols, hardware, or policies in a typically heterogeneous set of acquisition hardware. Accuracy and reliability of deep learning models suffer from those changes as data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Matthias Perkonigg , Johannes Hofmanninger , Georg Langs

Active learning focuses on choosing a subset of unlabeled data to be labeled. However, most such methods assume that a large subset of the data can be annotated. We are interested in low-budget active learning where only a small subset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Kossar Pourahmadi , Parsa Nooralinejad , Hamed Pirsiavash

Domain adaptive active learning is leading the charge in label-efficient training of neural networks. For semantic segmentation, state-of-the-art models jointly use two criteria of uncertainty and diversity to select training labels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Marc Schachtsiek , Simone Rossi , Thomas Hannagan

At its core, this thesis aims to enhance the practicality of deep learning by improving the label and training efficiency of deep learning models. To this end, we investigate data subset selection techniques, specifically active learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Andreas Kirsch

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

Active learning, a widely adopted technique for enhancing machine learning models in text and image classification tasks with limited annotation resources, has received relatively little attention in the domain of Named Entity Recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Haocheng Luo , Wei Tan , Ngoc Dang Nguyen , Lan Du