Single shot active learning using pseudo annotators

Yazhou Yang

doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2018.12.027

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Single shot active learning using pseudo annotators

2019-05-01

Yazhou Yang *

Marco Loog

DOI：10.1016/j.patcog.2018.12.027

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Standard active learning assumes that human annotations are always obtainable whenever new samples are selected. This, however, is unrealistic in many real-world applications where human experts are not readily available at all times. In this paper, we consider the single shot setting: all the required samples should be chosen in a single shot and no human annotation can be exploited during the selection process. We propose a new method, Active Learning through Random Labeling (ALRL), which substitutes single human annotator for multiple, what we will refer to as, pseudo annotators. These pseudo annotators always provide uniform and random labels whenever new unlabeled samples are queried. This random labeling enables standard active learning algorithms to also exhibit the exploratory behavior needed for single shot active learning. The exploratory behavior is further enhanced by selecting the most representative sample via minimizing nearest neighbor distance between unlabeled samples and queried samples. Experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms several state-ofthe-art approaches. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords:

Active learning

Pseudo annotators

Random labeling

Single shot

Exploration and exploitation

Minimizing nearest neighbor distance

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