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Asynchronous Active Learning with Distributed Label Querying
August 2021 • Sheng-Jun Huang, Chen-Chen Zong, Kun-Peng Ning, Haibo Ye
Active learning tries to learn an effective model with lowest labeling cost. Most existing active learning methods work in a synchronous way, which implies that the label querying can be performed only after the model updating in each iteration. While training models is usually time-consuming, it may lead to serious latency between two queries, especially in the crowdsourcing environments where there are many online annotators working simultaneously. This will significantly decrease the labeling efficiency and str…