LABELING COPILOT: A Deep Research Agent for Automated Data Curation in Computer Vision

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Main Authors: Ganguly, Debargha, Kumar, Sumit, Balappanawar, Ishwar, Chen, Weicong, Kambhatla, Shashank, Iyengar, Srinivasan, Kalyanaraman, Shivkumar, Kumaraguru, Ponnurangam, Chaudhary, Vipin
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author Ganguly, Debargha
Kumar, Sumit
Balappanawar, Ishwar
Chen, Weicong
Kambhatla, Shashank
Iyengar, Srinivasan
Kalyanaraman, Shivkumar
Kumaraguru, Ponnurangam
Chaudhary, Vipin
author_facet Ganguly, Debargha
Kumar, Sumit
Balappanawar, Ishwar
Chen, Weicong
Kambhatla, Shashank
Iyengar, Srinivasan
Kalyanaraman, Shivkumar
Kumaraguru, Ponnurangam
Chaudhary, Vipin
contents Curating high-quality, domain-specific datasets is a major bottleneck for deploying robust vision systems, requiring complex trade-offs between data quality, diversity, and cost when researching vast, unlabeled data lakes. We introduce Labeling Copilot, the first data curation deep research agent for computer vision. A central orchestrator agent, powered by a large multimodal language model, uses multi-step reasoning to execute specialized tools across three core capabilities: (1) Calibrated Discovery sources relevant, in-distribution data from large repositories; (2) Controllable Synthesis generates novel data for rare scenarios with robust filtering; and (3) Consensus Annotation produces accurate labels by orchestrating multiple foundation models via a novel consensus mechanism incorporating non-maximum suppression and voting. Our large-scale validation proves the effectiveness of Labeling Copilot's components. The Consensus Annotation module excels at object discovery: on the dense COCO dataset, it averages 14.2 candidate proposals per image-nearly double the 7.4 ground-truth objects-achieving a final annotation mAP of 37.1%. On the web-scale Open Images dataset, it navigated extreme class imbalance to discover 903 new bounding box categories, expanding its capability to over 1500 total. Concurrently, our Calibrated Discovery tool, tested at a 10-million sample scale, features an active learning strategy that is up to 40x more computationally efficient than alternatives with equivalent sample efficiency. These experiments validate that an agentic workflow with optimized, scalable tools provides a robust foundation for curating industrial-scale datasets.
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spellingShingle LABELING COPILOT: A Deep Research Agent for Automated Data Curation in Computer Vision
Ganguly, Debargha
Kumar, Sumit
Balappanawar, Ishwar
Chen, Weicong
Kambhatla, Shashank
Iyengar, Srinivasan
Kalyanaraman, Shivkumar
Kumaraguru, Ponnurangam
Chaudhary, Vipin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Curating high-quality, domain-specific datasets is a major bottleneck for deploying robust vision systems, requiring complex trade-offs between data quality, diversity, and cost when researching vast, unlabeled data lakes. We introduce Labeling Copilot, the first data curation deep research agent for computer vision. A central orchestrator agent, powered by a large multimodal language model, uses multi-step reasoning to execute specialized tools across three core capabilities: (1) Calibrated Discovery sources relevant, in-distribution data from large repositories; (2) Controllable Synthesis generates novel data for rare scenarios with robust filtering; and (3) Consensus Annotation produces accurate labels by orchestrating multiple foundation models via a novel consensus mechanism incorporating non-maximum suppression and voting. Our large-scale validation proves the effectiveness of Labeling Copilot's components. The Consensus Annotation module excels at object discovery: on the dense COCO dataset, it averages 14.2 candidate proposals per image-nearly double the 7.4 ground-truth objects-achieving a final annotation mAP of 37.1%. On the web-scale Open Images dataset, it navigated extreme class imbalance to discover 903 new bounding box categories, expanding its capability to over 1500 total. Concurrently, our Calibrated Discovery tool, tested at a 10-million sample scale, features an active learning strategy that is up to 40x more computationally efficient than alternatives with equivalent sample efficiency. These experiments validate that an agentic workflow with optimized, scalable tools provides a robust foundation for curating industrial-scale datasets.
title LABELING COPILOT: A Deep Research Agent for Automated Data Curation in Computer Vision
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22631