Active Learning - Building Semi-supervised Classifiers when Labeled Data is not Available
In situations where unlabeled data is abundant but labeled data cannot be obtained easily active learning can be utilized to build classifiers by intelligently querying users for labels. This talks shows the core concepts and algorithms of active learning based on a real-world project.
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Data Science, Machine Learning, Python
Scheduled on wednesday 14:50 in room media
Speaker
I am a Data Scientist working on applying machine learning solutions to sensor data from non-destructive testing of pipelines in order to detect and size internal damage.
Description
In many situations large datasets are available but unfortunately labeling is expensive and time consuming. Active Learning is a concept for building classifiers by letting the algorithm choose the training data it uses. This achieves greater accuracy than just labeling a random subset of the available dataset.
The active learning algorithm selects some unlabeled data instances which are then labeled by a human annotator. Given this information a classifier is trained and new instances for the human annotator to label are selected. This iterative process tries to label as few instances as possible while achieving high classification accuracy.
In this talk I will give a general overview of the core concepts and techniques of active learning like algorithms for selecting the queries and convergence criteria.