Model-free and model-based active learning for regression

Jack O’Neill, Sarah Jane Delany, Brian Macnamee

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Abstract

Training machine learning models often requires large labelled datasets, which can be both expensive and time-consuming to obtain. Active learning aims to selectively choose which data is labelled in order to minimize the total number of labels required to train an effective model. This paper compares model-free and model-based approaches to active learning for regression, finding that model-free approaches, in addition to being less computationally intensive to implement, are more effective in improving the performance of linear regressions than model-based alternatives.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Computational Intelligence Systems - Contributions Presented at the 16th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, 2016
EditorsAlexander Gegov, Chrisina Jayne, Qiang Shen, Plamen Angelov
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages375-386
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783319465616
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Event16th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, UKCI 2016 - Lancaster, United Kingdom
Duration: 7 Sep 20169 Sep 2016

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume513
ISSN (Print)2194-5357

Conference

Conference16th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, UKCI 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLancaster
Period7/09/169/09/16

Keywords

  • Training machine learning models
  • large labelled datasets
  • expensive
  • time-consuming
  • Active learning
  • selectively choose
  • minimize labels
  • effective model
  • model-free
  • model-based
  • regression
  • computationally intensive
  • linear regressions

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