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GALAXY: Graph-based Active Learning at the Extreme
Jifan Zhang · Julian Katz-Samuels · Robert Nowak

Thu Jul 21 03:00 PM -- 05:00 PM (PDT) @ Hall E #637
in Poster Session 3 »

Active learning is a label-efficient approach to train highly effective models while interactively selecting only small subsets of unlabelled data for labelling and training. In ``open world" settings, the classes of interest can make up a small fraction of the overall dataset -- most of the data may be viewed as an out-of-distribution or irrelevant class. This leads to extreme class-imbalance, and our theory and methods focus on this core issue. We propose a new strategy for active learning called GALAXY (Graph-based Active Learning At the eXtrEme), which blends ideas from graph-based active learning and deep learning. GALAXY automatically and adaptively selects more class-balanced examples for labeling than most other methods for active learning. Our theory shows that GALAXY performs a refined form of uncertainty sampling that gathers a much more class-balanced dataset than vanilla uncertainty sampling. Experimentally, we demonstrate GALAXY's superiority over existing state-of-art deep active learning algorithms in unbalanced vision classification settings generated from popular datasets.

Keywords: Deep Learning · T: Active Learning and Interactive Learning · MISC: Online Learning, Active Learning and Bandits

Author Information

Jifan Zhang (University of Wisconsin)
Julian Katz-Samuels (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Robert Nowak (University of Wisconsion-Madison)
Robert Nowak

Robert Nowak holds the Nosbusch Professorship in Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his research focuses on signal processing, machine learning, optimization, and statistics.

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