Optimal sampling in unbiased active learning

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Title: Optimal sampling in unbiased active learning
Authors: Imberg, Henrik, 1991, Jonasson, Johan, 1966, Axelson-Fisk, Marina, 1972
Source: Statistical sampling in machine learning 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Online Proceedings of Machine Learning Research. 108:559-569
Subject Terms: Optimal design, Weighted loss, Sampling weights, Generalised linear models, Unequal probability sampling, Active learning
Description: A common belief in unbiased active learning is that, in order to capture the most informative instances, the sampling probabilities should be proportional to the uncertainty of the class labels. We argue that this produces suboptimal predictions and present sampling schemes for unbiased pool-based active learning that minimise the actual prediction error, and demonstrate a better predictive performance than competing methods on a number of benchmark datasets. In contrast, both probabilistic and deterministic uncertainty sampling performed worse than simple random sampling on some of the datasets.
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Abstract:A common belief in unbiased active learning is that, in order to capture the most informative instances, the sampling probabilities should be proportional to the uncertainty of the class labels. We argue that this produces suboptimal predictions and present sampling schemes for unbiased pool-based active learning that minimise the actual prediction error, and demonstrate a better predictive performance than competing methods on a number of benchmark datasets. In contrast, both probabilistic and deterministic uncertainty sampling performed worse than simple random sampling on some of the datasets.
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