Active Learning arises as an important issue in several supervised learning scenarios where obtaining data is cheap, but labeling is costly. In general, this consists in a query strategy, a greedy heuristic based on some selection criterion, which searches for the potentially most informative observations to be labeled in order to form a training set. A query strategy is therefore a biased sampling procedure since it systematically favors some observations by generating biased training sets, instead of making independent and identically distributed draws. The main hypothesis of this thesis lies in the reduction of the bias inherited from the selection criterion. The general proposal consists in reducing the bias by selecting the minimal training set from which the estimated probability distribution is as close as possible to the underlying distribution of overall observations. For that, a novel general active learning query strategy has been developed using an Information-Theoretic framework. Several experiments have been performed in order to evaluate the performance of the proposed strategy. The obtained results confirm the hypothesis about the bias, showing that the proposal outperforms the baselines in different datasets.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CCSD/oai:tel.archives-ouvertes.fr:tel-01000266 |
| Date | 04 June 2013 |
| Creators | Ribeiro de Mello, Carlos Eduardo |
| Source Sets | CCSD theses-EN-ligne, France |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | PhD thesis |
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