Title
Active Learning for Support Vector Machines with Maximum Model Change.
Abstract
Margin-based strategies and model change based strategies represent two important types of strategies for active learning. While margin-based strategies have been dominant for Support Vector Machines (SVMs), most methods are based on heuristics and lack a solid theoretical support. In this paper, we propose an active learning strategy for SVMs based on Maximum Model Change (MMC). The model change is defined as the difference between the current model parameters and the updated parameters obtained with the enlarged training set. Inspired by Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) update rule, we measure the change as the gradient of the loss at a candidate point. We analyze the convergence property of the proposed method, and show that the upper bound of label requests made by MMC is smaller than passive learning. Moreover, we connect the proposed MMC algorithm with the widely used simple margin method in order to provide a theoretical justification for margin-based strategies. Extensive experimental results on various benchmark data sets from UCI machine learning repository have demonstrated the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-662-44848-9_14
ECML/PKDD (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
active learning,svms
Stochastic gradient descent,Margin (machine learning),Active learning,Active learning (machine learning),Computer science,Upper and lower bounds,Support vector machine,Heuristics,Artificial intelligence,Passive learning,Machine learning
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.48
22
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wenbin Cai1414.62
Ya Zhang2134091.72
Siyuan Zhou3497.27
Wenquan Wang4151.65
Chris Ding59308501.21
Xiao Gu6196.90