ALScope: A Unified Toolkit for Deep Active Learning

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Autori principali: Wu, Chenkai, Qi, Yuanyuan, Yang, Xiaohao, Lu, Jueqing, Liu, Gang, Buntine, Wray, Du, Lan
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author Wu, Chenkai
Qi, Yuanyuan
Yang, Xiaohao
Lu, Jueqing
Liu, Gang
Buntine, Wray
Du, Lan
author_facet Wu, Chenkai
Qi, Yuanyuan
Yang, Xiaohao
Lu, Jueqing
Liu, Gang
Buntine, Wray
Du, Lan
contents Deep Active Learning (DAL) reduces annotation costs by selecting the most informative unlabeled samples during training. As real-world applications become more complex, challenges stemming from distribution shifts (e.g., open-set recognition) and data imbalance have gained increasing attention, prompting the development of numerous DAL algorithms. However, the lack of a unified platform has hindered fair and systematic evaluation under diverse conditions. Therefore, we present a new DAL platform ALScope for classification tasks, integrating 10 datasets from computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP), and 21 representative DAL algorithms, including both classical baselines and recent approaches designed to handle challenges such as distribution shifts and data imbalance. This platform supports flexible configuration of key experimental factors, ranging from algorithm and dataset choices to task-specific factors like out-of-distribution (OOD) sample ratio, and class imbalance ratio, enabling comprehensive and realistic evaluation. We conduct extensive experiments on this platform under various settings. Our findings show that: (1) DAL algorithms' performance varies significantly across domains and task settings; (2) in non-standard scenarios such as imbalanced and open-set settings, DAL algorithms show room for improvement and require further investigation; and (3) some algorithms achieve good performance, but require significantly longer selection time.
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spellingShingle ALScope: A Unified Toolkit for Deep Active Learning
Wu, Chenkai
Qi, Yuanyuan
Yang, Xiaohao
Lu, Jueqing
Liu, Gang
Buntine, Wray
Du, Lan
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Deep Active Learning (DAL) reduces annotation costs by selecting the most informative unlabeled samples during training. As real-world applications become more complex, challenges stemming from distribution shifts (e.g., open-set recognition) and data imbalance have gained increasing attention, prompting the development of numerous DAL algorithms. However, the lack of a unified platform has hindered fair and systematic evaluation under diverse conditions. Therefore, we present a new DAL platform ALScope for classification tasks, integrating 10 datasets from computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP), and 21 representative DAL algorithms, including both classical baselines and recent approaches designed to handle challenges such as distribution shifts and data imbalance. This platform supports flexible configuration of key experimental factors, ranging from algorithm and dataset choices to task-specific factors like out-of-distribution (OOD) sample ratio, and class imbalance ratio, enabling comprehensive and realistic evaluation. We conduct extensive experiments on this platform under various settings. Our findings show that: (1) DAL algorithms' performance varies significantly across domains and task settings; (2) in non-standard scenarios such as imbalanced and open-set settings, DAL algorithms show room for improvement and require further investigation; and (3) some algorithms achieve good performance, but require significantly longer selection time.
title ALScope: A Unified Toolkit for Deep Active Learning
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04937