Abstract
Recent breakthroughs made by deep learning rely heavily on a large number of annotated samples. To overcome this shortcoming, active learning is a possible solution. Besides the previous active learning algorithms that only adopted information after training, we propose a new class of methods named sequential-based method based on the information during training. A specific criterion of active learning called prediction stability is proposed to prove the feasibility of sequential-based methods. We design a toy model to explain the principle of our proposed method and pointed out a possible defect of the former uncertainty-based methods. Experiments are made on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, and the results indicates that prediction stability was effective and works well on fewer-labeled datasets. Prediction stability reaches the accuracy of traditional acquisition functions like entropy on CIFAR-10, and notably outperformed them on CIFAR-100.
Junyu Liu did this work during his internship at the Hikvision Research Institute.
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Liu, J., Li, X., Zhou, J., Shen, J. (2020). Prediction Stability as a Criterion in Active Learning. In: Farkaš, I., Masulli, P., Wermter, S. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2020. ICANN 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12397. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61616-8_13
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