Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 28 (NIPS 2015)
Tzu-Kuo Huang, Alekh Agarwal, Daniel J. Hsu, John Langford, Robert E. Schapire
We develop a new active learning algorithm for the streaming settingsatisfying three important properties: 1) It provably works for anyclassifier representation and classification problem including thosewith severe noise. 2) It is efficiently implementable with an ERMoracle. 3) It is more aggressive than all previous approachessatisfying 1 and 2. To do this, we create an algorithm based on a newlydefined optimization problem and analyze it. We also conduct the firstexperimental analysis of all efficient agnostic active learningalgorithms, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses in differentsettings.