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Active Learning (AL) addresses the crucial challenge of enabling machines to efficiently gather labeled examples through strategic queries. Among the many AL strategies, Uncertainty Sampling (US) stands out as one of the most widely…

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Deep learning is currently reaching outstanding performances on different tasks, including image classification, especially when using large neural networks. The success of these models is tributary to the availability of large collections…

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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

Distilling knowledge from a large teacher model to a lightweight one is a widely successful approach for generating compact, powerful models in the semi-supervised learning setting where a limited amount of labeled data is available. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Cenk Baykal , Khoa Trinh , Fotis Iliopoulos , Gaurav Menghani , Erik Vee

Active learning (AL) combines data labeling and model training to minimize the labeling cost by prioritizing the selection of high value data that can best improve model performance. In pool-based active learning, accessible unlabeled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Mingfei Gao , Zizhao Zhang , Guo Yu , Sercan O. Arik , Larry S. Davis , Tomas Pfister

In many real-world machine learning applications, unlabeled samples are easy to obtain, but it is expensive and/or time-consuming to label them. Active learning is a common approach for reducing this data labeling effort. It optimally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ziang Liu , Dongrui Wu

Online active learning is a paradigm in machine learning that aims to select the most informative data points to label from a data stream. The problem of minimizing the cost associated with collecting labeled observations has gained a lot…

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Deep learning has profoundly impacted domains such as computer vision and natural language processing by uncovering complex patterns in vast datasets. However, the reliance on extensive labeled data poses significant challenges, including…

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Automated skin lesion analysis is very crucial in clinical practice, as skin cancer is among the most common human malignancy. Existing approaches with deep learning have achieved remarkable performance on this challenging task, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Xueying Shi , Qi Dou , Cheng Xue , Jing Qin , Hao Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

Active learning (AL) aims to enable training high performance classifiers with low annotation cost by predicting which subset of unlabelled instances would be most beneficial to label. The importance of AL has motivated extensive research,…

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To fully expedite AI-powered chemical research, high-quality chemical databases are the foundation. Automatic extraction of chemical information from the literature is essential for constructing reaction databases, but it is currently…

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Active learning is a practical field of machine learning that automates the process of selecting which data to label. Current methods are effective in reducing the burden of data labeling but are heavily model-reliant. This has led to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Sai Prathyush Katragadda , Tyler Cody , Peter Beling , Laura Freeman

Self-driving vehicles must perceive and predict the future positions of nearby actors in order to avoid collisions and drive safely. A learned deep learning module is often responsible for this task, requiring large-scale, high-quality…

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Recent years have seen rapid development in Information Extraction, as well as its subtask, Relation Extraction. Relation Extraction is able to detect semantic relations between entities in sentences. Currently, many efficient approaches…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully applied to the single target tracking task in recent years. Generally, training a deep CNN model requires numerous labeled training samples, and the number and quality of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Di Yuan , Xiaojun Chang , Yi Yang , Qiao Liu , Dehua Wang , Zhenyu He

Active learning frameworks offer efficient data annotation without remarkable accuracy degradation. In other words, active learning starts training the model with a small size of labeled data while exploring the space of unlabeled data in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Salman Mohamadi , Hamidreza Amindavar

Active Learning (AL) methods seek to improve classifier performance when labels are expensive or scarce. We consider two central questions: Where does AL work? How much does it help? To address these questions, a comprehensive experimental…

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