Active Learning
Active learning is a machine learning paradigm focused on optimizing data labeling efficiency by strategically selecting the most informative samples for annotation from a larger unlabeled pool. Current research emphasizes developing novel acquisition functions and data pruning strategies to reduce computational costs associated with large datasets, exploring the integration of active learning with various model architectures (including deep neural networks, Gaussian processes, and language models), and addressing challenges like privacy preservation and handling open-set noise. This approach holds significant promise for reducing the substantial cost and effort of data labeling in diverse fields, ranging from image classification and natural language processing to materials science and healthcare.
Papers
Parameter-Efficient Language Model Tuning with Active Learning in Low-Resource Settings
Josip Jukić, Jan Šnajder
Active Learning Principles for In-Context Learning with Large Language Models
Katerina Margatina, Timo Schick, Nikolaos Aletras, Jane Dwivedi-Yu
EASE: An Easily-Customized Annotation System Powered by Efficiency Enhancement Mechanisms
Naihao Deng, Yikai Liu, Mingye Chen, Winston Wu, Siyang Liu, Yulong Chen, Yue Zhang, Rada Mihalcea
Error-Tolerant Exact Query Learning of Finite Set Partitions with Same-Cluster Oracle
Adela Frances DePavia, Olga Medrano Martín del Campo, Erasmo Tani
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Human and Machine Translations for Multilingual Semantic Parsing with Active Learning
Zhuang Li, Lizhen Qu, Philip R. Cohen, Raj V. Tumuluri, Gholamreza Haffari
Beyond Labels: Empowering Human Annotators with Natural Language Explanations through a Novel Active-Learning Architecture
Bingsheng Yao, Ishan Jindal, Lucian Popa, Yannis Katsis, Sayan Ghosh, Lihong He, Yuxuan Lu, Shashank Srivastava, Yunyao Li, James Hendler, Dakuo Wang
Data-efficient Active Learning for Structured Prediction with Partial Annotation and Self-Training
Zhisong Zhang, Emma Strubell, Eduard Hovy
Sequential Experimental Design for Spectral Measurement: Active Learning Using a Parametric Model
Tomohiro Nabika, Kenji Nagata, Shun Katakami, Masaichiro Mizumaki, Masato Okada
Active Learning in the Predict-then-Optimize Framework: A Margin-Based Approach
Mo Liu, Paul Grigas, Heyuan Liu, Zuo-Jun Max Shen