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Experiments are the gold standard for causal inference. In many applications, experimental units can often be recruited or chosen sequentially, and the adaptive execution of such experiments may offer greatly improved inference of causal…

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Label noise poses a significant challenge in Earth Observation (EO), often degrading the performance and reliability of supervised Machine Learning (ML) models. Yet, given the critical nature of several EO applications, developing robust…

Acquiring new knowledge without forgetting what has been learned in a sequence of tasks is the central focus of continual learning (CL). While tasks arrive sequentially, the training data are often prepared and annotated independently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Thuy-Trang Vu , Shahram Khadivi , Mahsa Ghorbanali , Dinh Phung , Gholamreza Haffari

The efficiency of active learning (AL) approaches to identify materials with desired properties relies on the knowledge of a few parameters describing the property. However, these parameters are unknown if the property is governed by a high…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-10 Akhil S. Nair , Lucas Foppa , Matthias Scheffler

Quantum machine learning, as an extension of classical machine learning that harnesses quantum mechanics, facilitates effiient learning from data encoded in quantum states. Training a quantum neural network typically demands a substantial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Yongcheng Ding , Yue Ban , Mikel Sanz , José D. Martín-Guerrero , Xi Chen

In recent years, deep learning has become a breakthrough technique in assisting medical image diagnosis. Supervised learning using convolutional neural networks (CNN) provides state-of-the-art performance and has served as a benchmark for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Tao Wang , Xinlin Zhang , Yuanbo Zhou , Junlin Lan , Tao Tan , Min Du , Qinquan Gao , Tong Tong

Active learning strives to reduce the need for costly data annotation, by repeatedly querying an annotator to label the most informative samples from a pool of unlabeled data, and then training a model from these samples. We identify two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Jiarong Wei , Yancong Lin , Holger Caesar

Active learning (AL) is a principled strategy to reduce annotation cost in data-hungry deep learning. However, existing AL algorithms focus almost exclusively on unimodal data, overlooking the substantial annotation burden in multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Jiancheng Zhang , Yinglun Zhu

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

We focus on the online-based active learning (OAL) setting where an agent operates over a stream of observations and trades-off between the costly acquisition of information (labelled observations) and the cost of prediction errors. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Maxime Heuillet , Ola Ahmad , Audrey Durand

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

This article addresses calibration challenges in analytical chemistry by employing a random-effects calibration curve model and its generalizations to capture variability in analyte concentrations. The model is motivated by specific issues…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-27 Soumya Sahu , Thomas Mathew , Robert Gibbons , Dulal K. Bhaumik

Active learning (AL) reduces labeling cost by querying informative samples, but in tabular settings its cold-start gains are often limited because uncertainty estimates are unreliable when models are trained on very few labels. Tabular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wilailuck Treerath , Fabrizio Pittorino

Active Learning (AL) and Semi-supervised Learning are two techniques that have been studied to reduce the high cost of deep learning by using a small amount of labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data. To improve the accuracy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Jaeseung Lim , Jongkeun Na , Nojun Kwak

Active learning is able to reduce the amount of labelling effort by using a machine learning model to query the user for specific inputs. While there are many papers on new active learning techniques, these techniques rarely satisfy the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Parmida Atighehchian , Frédéric Branchaud-Charron , Alexandre Lacoste

To balance quality and cost, various domain areas of science and engineering run simulations at multiple levels of sophistication. Multi-fidelity active learning aims to learn a direct mapping from input parameters to simulation outputs at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Dongxia Wu , Ruijia Niu , Matteo Chinazzi , Yian Ma , Rose Yu

In real-world scenarios, datasets collected from randomized experiments are often constrained by size, due to limitations in time and budget. As a result, leveraging large observational datasets becomes a more attractive option for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-19 Danyang Wang , Chengchun Shi , Shikai Luo , Will Wei Sun

The promise of active learning (AL) is to reduce labelling costs by selecting the most valuable examples to annotate from a pool of unlabelled data. Identifying these examples is especially challenging with high-dimensional data (e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Amin Parvaneh , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Damien Teney , Reza Haffari , Anton van den Hengel , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Learning relational tabular data has gained significant attention recently, but most studies focus on single tables, overlooking the potential of cross-table learning. Cross-table learning, especially in scenarios where tables lack shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Zhaomin Wu , Shida Wang , Ziyang Wang , Bingsheng He

Reliability analysis aims at estimating the failure probability of an engineering system. It often requires multiple runs of a limit-state function, which usually relies on computationally intensive simulations. Traditionally, these…

Computation · Statistics 2024-01-22 Anderson V. Pires , Maliki Moustapha , Stefano Marelli , Bruno Sudret