Efficient and Parsimonious Agnostic Active Learning

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• Alekh Agarwal (Microsoft Research NY)
• Friday 06 November 2015, 14:30-15:30
• MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

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We develop a new active learning algorithm for the streaming setting satisfying three important properties: 1) It provably works for any classifier representation and classification problem including those with severe noise. 2) It is efficiently implementable with an ERM oracle. 3) It is more aggressive than all previous approaches satisfying 1 and 2. To do this we create an algorithm based on a newly defined optimization problem and analyze it. We also conduct the first experimental analysis of all efficient agnostic active learning algorithms, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses in different settings.

This is joint work with Tzu-Kuo Huang, John Langford and Rob Schapire at Microsoft Research.

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