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Shengyuan LIU

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Ke CHEN

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Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering  2023 Vol.24 No.10 P.1497-1503

http://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.2200589


Uncertainty-aware complementary label queries for active learning


Author(s):  Shengyuan LIU, Ke CHEN, Tianlei HU, Yunqing MAO

Affiliation(s):  Key Lab of Intelligent Computing Based Big Data of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China; more

Corresponding email(s):   liushengyuan@zju.edu.cn, chenk@cs.zju.edu.cn, htl@zju.edu.cn, myq@citycloud.com.cn

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Shengyuan LIU, Ke CHEN, Tianlei HU, Yunqing MAO. Uncertainty-aware complementary label queries for active learning[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2023, 24(10): 1497-1503.

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Abstract: 
Many active learning methods assume that a learner can simply ask for the full annotations of some training data from annotators. These methods mainly try to cut the annotation costs by minimizing the number of annotation actions. Unfortunately, annotating instances exactly in many real-world classification tasks is still expensive. To reduce the cost of a single annotation action, we try to tackle a novel active learning setting, named active learning with complementary labels (ALCL). ALCL learners ask only yes/no questions in some classes. After receiving answers from annotators, ALCL learners obtain a few supervised instances and more training instances with complementary labels, which specify only one of the classes to which the pattern does not belong. There are two challenging issues in ALCL: one is how to sample instances to be queried, and the other is how to learn from these complementary labels and ordinary accurate labels. For the first issue, we propose an uncertainty-based sampling strategy under this novel setup. For the second issue, we upgrade a previous ALCL method to fit our sampling strategy. Experimental results on various datasets demonstrate the superiority of our approaches.

基于主动学习的不确定性感知补标签查询

刘圣源1,陈珂2,胡天磊1,毛云青3
1浙江大学浙江省大数据智能计算重点实验室,中国杭州市,310027
2浙江大学区块链与数据安全全国重点实验室,中国杭州市,310027
3城云科技(中国)有限公司,中国杭州市,310000
摘要:许多主动学习方法假设学习者可便捷地向注释者询问训练数据的完整标注信息。这些方法主要试图通过最小化标注数量降低标注成本。然而,对于许多现实中的分类任务来说,精确标注实例仍然非常昂贵。为降低单次标注行为成本,本文试图解决一种新的主动学习范式,称为具有补标签的主动学习(ALCL)。ALCL学习器只针对样例特定类别提出是或否的问题。在收到标注者答案后,ALCL学习器获得一些有监督实例和更多具有补标签的训练实例,这些补标签仅表示对应标签与该实例无关。。ALCL具有两个挑战性问题:如何选择要查询的实例以及如何从这些补标签和普通标签中提取信息。针对第一个问题,在主动学习范式下提出一种基于不确定性的抽样策略。针对第二个问题,改进了一种已有的ALCL方法,同时适配了我们的抽样策略。在各种数据集上的实验结果验证了本文方法的有效性。

关键词:主动学习;图片分类;弱监督学习

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