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Main Authors: Heuillet, Maxime, Ahmad, Ola, Durand, Audrey
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08921
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author Heuillet, Maxime
Ahmad, Ola
Durand, Audrey
author_facet Heuillet, Maxime
Ahmad, Ola
Durand, Audrey
contents We focus on the online-based active learning (OAL) setting where an agent operates over a stream of observations and trades-off between the costly acquisition of information (labelled observations) and the cost of prediction errors. We propose a novel foundation for OAL tasks based on partial monitoring, a theoretical framework specialized in online learning from partially informative actions. We show that previously studied binary and multi-class OAL tasks are instances of partial monitoring. We expand the real-world potential of OAL by introducing a new class of cost-sensitive OAL tasks. We propose NeuralCBP, the first PM strategy that accounts for predictive uncertainty with deep neural networks. Our extensive empirical evaluation on open source datasets shows that NeuralCBP has favorable performance against state-of-the-art baselines on multiple binary, multi-class and cost-sensitive OAL tasks.
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spellingShingle Neural Active Learning Meets the Partial Monitoring Framework
Heuillet, Maxime
Ahmad, Ola
Durand, Audrey
Machine Learning
We focus on the online-based active learning (OAL) setting where an agent operates over a stream of observations and trades-off between the costly acquisition of information (labelled observations) and the cost of prediction errors. We propose a novel foundation for OAL tasks based on partial monitoring, a theoretical framework specialized in online learning from partially informative actions. We show that previously studied binary and multi-class OAL tasks are instances of partial monitoring. We expand the real-world potential of OAL by introducing a new class of cost-sensitive OAL tasks. We propose NeuralCBP, the first PM strategy that accounts for predictive uncertainty with deep neural networks. Our extensive empirical evaluation on open source datasets shows that NeuralCBP has favorable performance against state-of-the-art baselines on multiple binary, multi-class and cost-sensitive OAL tasks.
title Neural Active Learning Meets the Partial Monitoring Framework
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08921