Exploring the Frontier of Uncertainty Space

Rong Hu, Dublin Institute of Technology
Patrick Lindstrom, Dublin Institute of Technology
Sarah Jane Delany, Dublin Institute of Technology
Brian Mac Namee, Dublin Institute of Technology

Document Type Conference Paper

AISTATS 2010 Active Learning and Experimental Design Workshop Poster Highlight Papers.

Abstract

We aim to investigate methods balancing exploitation with exploration in active learning to improve the performance of uncertainty sampling. Two exploration guided sampling methods are compared to uncertainty sampling on various real-life datasets from the 2010 Active Learning Challenge. Our initial experiments seems to indicate that combining exploration with uncertainty sampling improves performance on certain datasets but not all.