{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/active-learning-using-uncertainty-information","title":"Active Learning Using Uncertainty Information","arxiv_id":"1702.08540","date":"2017-02-27","proceeding":null,"authors":["Yazhou Yang","Marco Loog"],"abstract":"Many active learning methods belong to the retraining-based approaches, which\nselect one unlabeled instance, add it to the training set with its possible\nlabels, retrain the classification model, and evaluate the criteria that we\nbase our selection on. However, since the true label of the selected instance\nis unknown, these methods resort to calculating the average-case or worse-case\nperformance with respect to the unknown label. In this paper, we propose a\ndifferent method to solve this problem. In particular, our method aims to make\nuse of the uncertainty information to enhance the performance of\nretraining-based models. We apply our method to two state-of-the-art algorithms\nand carry out extensive experiments on a wide variety of real-world datasets.\nThe results clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method and\nindicate it can reduce human labeling efforts in many real-life applications.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08540v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.08540v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"active-learning-using-uncertainty-information","repo_url":"https://github.com/agusdmb/Active-Learning-Framework","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"active-learning","task_name":"Active Learning"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1702.08540","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}