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Convergence of Uncertainty Sampling for Active Learning
Anant Raj · Francis Bach

Wed Jul 20 03:30 PM -- 05:30 PM (PDT) @ Hall E #1217
in Poster Session 2 »

Uncertainty sampling in active learning is heavily used in practice to reduce the annotation cost. However, there has been no wide consensus on the function to be used for uncertainty estimation in binary classification tasks and convergence guarantees of the corresponding active learning algorithms are not well understood. The situation is even more challenging for multi-category classification. In this work, we propose an efficient uncertainty estimator for binary classification which we also extend to multiple classes, and provide a non-asymptotic rate of convergence for our uncertainty sampling based active learning algorithm in both cases under no-noise conditions (i.e., linearly separable data). We also extend our analysis to the noisy case and provide theoretical guarantees for our algorithm under the influence of noise in the task of binary and multi-class classification.

Keywords: OPT: Convex · OPT: Stochastic · T: Active Learning and Interactive Learning

Author Information

Anant Raj (INRIA- ENS and UIUC)

Marie-Curie Fellow

Francis Bach (INRIA - Ecole Normale Supérieure)

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