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Main Authors: Ober, Sebastian W., Power, Samuel, Diethe, Tom, Moss, Henry B.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08223
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  • We observe that BatchBALD, a popular acquisition function for batch Bayesian active learning for classification, can conflate epistemic and aleatoric uncertainty, leading to suboptimal performance. Motivated by this observation, we propose to focus on the predictive probabilities, which only exhibit epistemic uncertainty. The result is an acquisition function that not only performs better, but is also faster to evaluate, allowing for larger batches than before.