Addressing the cold start problem in active learning using self-supervised learning

• Main Author: Chen, Liangyu
• Other Authors: Wen Bihan
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/158461
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Active learning promises to improve annotation efficiency by iteratively selecting the most important data to be annotated first. However, we uncover a striking contrast to this promise: Active querying strategies fail to select data as effectively as random selection at the first choice. We identif...