Yujian Wang¹, Jianxun Zhang^1,*, Renhao Sun²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.81, No.1, pp. 533-548, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.054644 - 15 October 2024

Abstract The effectiveness of facial expression recognition (FER) algorithms hinges on the model’s quality and the availability of a substantial amount of labeled expression data. However, labeling large datasets demands significant human, time, and financial resources. Although active learning methods have mitigated the dependency on extensive labeled data, a cold-start problem persists in small to medium-sized expression recognition datasets. This issue arises because the initial labeled data often fails to represent the full spectrum of facial expression characteristics. This paper introduces an active learning approach that integrates uncertainty estimation, aiming to improve the precision of facial… More >

Yang Yang¹, Zhenying Qu¹, Zefan Yan¹, Zhipeng Gao^1,*, Ti Wang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.1, pp. 735-757, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.045807 - 30 January 2024

Abstract Nowadays, ensuring the quality of network services has become increasingly vital. Experts are turning to knowledge graph technology, with a significant emphasis on entity extraction in the identification of device configurations. This research paper presents a novel entity extraction method that leverages a combination of active learning and attention mechanisms. Initially, an improved active learning approach is employed to select the most valuable unlabeled samples, which are subsequently submitted for expert labeling. This approach successfully addresses the problems of isolated points and sample redundancy within the network configuration sample set. Then the labeled samples are… More >

Zhen Xu^1,2, Weibin Chen^1,2,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.3, pp. 2627-2650, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.040497 - 11 September 2023

Abstract Active learning (AL) trains a high-precision predictor model from small numbers of labeled data by iteratively annotating the most valuable data sample from an unlabeled data pool with a class label throughout the learning process. However, most current AL methods start with the premise that the labels queried at AL rounds must be free of ambiguity, which may be unrealistic in some real-world applications where only a set of candidate labels can be obtained for selected data. Besides, most of the existing AL algorithms only consider the case of centralized processing, which necessitates gathering together… More >

Sher Muhammad Daudpota¹, Saif Hassan¹, Yazeed Alkhurayyif^2,*, Abdullah Saleh Alqahtani^3,4, Muhammad Haris Aziz⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.2, pp. 1409-1422, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034157 - 30 August 2023

Abstract The Internet revolution has resulted in abundant data from various sources, including social media, traditional media, etcetera. Although the availability of data is no longer an issue, data labelling for exploiting it in supervised machine learning is still an expensive process and involves tedious human efforts. The overall purpose of this study is to propose a strategy to automatically label the unlabeled textual data with the support of active learning in combination with deep learning. More specifically, this study assesses the performance of different active learning strategies in automatic labelling of the textual dataset at… More >

Samer Abdulateef Waheeb^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 981-998, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.035753 - 20 January 2023

Abstract Automatic extraction of the patient’s health information from the unstructured data concerning the discharge summary remains challenging. Discharge summary related documents contain various aspects of the patient health condition to examine the quality of treatment and thereby help improve decision-making in the medical field. Using a sentiment dictionary and feature engineering, the researchers primarily mine semantic text features. However, choosing and designing features requires a lot of manpower. The proposed approach is an unsupervised deep learning model that learns a set of clusters embedded in the latent space. A composite model including Active Learning (AL),… More >

Huiyu Sun^*, Ralph Grishman

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.3, pp. 1415-1423, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.030794 - 25 May 2022

Abstract Active learning methods which present selected examples from the corpus for annotation provide more efficient learning of supervised relation extraction models, but they leave the developer in the unenviable role of a passive informant. To restore the developer’s proper role as a partner with the system, we must give the developer an ability to inspect the extraction model during development. We propose to make this possible through a representation based on lexicalized dependency paths (LDPs) coupled with an active learner for LDPs. We apply LDPs to both simulated and real active learning with ACE as evaluation More >

Ahad Alloqmani¹, Omimah Alsaedi¹, Nadia Bahatheg¹, Reem Alnanih^1,*, Lamiaa Elrefaei^1,2

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.40, No.3, pp. 1023-1042, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.019704 - 24 September 2021

Abstract Interactive learning tools can facilitate the learning process and increase student engagement, especially tools such as computer programs that are designed for human-computer interaction. Thus, this paper aims to help students learn five different methods for solving nonlinear equations using an interactive learning tool designed with common principles such as feedback, visibility, affordance, consistency, and constraints. It also compares these methods by the number of iterations and time required to display the result. This study helps students learn these methods using interactive learning tools instead of relying on traditional teaching methods. The tool is implemented More >

Tao Li¹, Yongjin Hu^1,*, Ankang Ju¹, Zhuoran Hu²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.1, pp. 407-420, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.012023 - 30 October 2020

Abstract Owing to the continuous barrage of cyber threats, there is a massive amount of cyber threat intelligence. However, a great deal of cyber threat intelligence come from textual sources. For analysis of cyber threat intelligence, many security analysts rely on cumbersome and time-consuming manual efforts. Cybersecurity knowledge graph plays a significant role in automatics analysis of cyber threat intelligence. As the foundation for constructing cybersecurity knowledge graph, named entity recognition (NER) is required for identifying critical threat-related elements from textual cyber threat intelligence. Recently, deep neural network-based models have attained very good results in NER.… More >

Anman Zhang¹, Bohan Li^{1, 2, 3, *}, Wenhuan Wang¹, Shuo Wan¹, Weitong Chen⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.63, No.3, pp. 1499-1514, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09962 - 30 April 2020

Abstract Active learning has been widely utilized to reduce the labeling cost of supervised learning. By selecting specific instances to train the model, the performance of the model was improved within limited steps. However, rare work paid attention to the effectiveness of active learning on it. In this paper, we proposed a deep active learning model with bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) for text classification. BERT takes advantage of the self-attention mechanism to integrate contextual information, which is beneficial to accelerate the convergence of training. As for the process of active learning, we design an More >

Huiyu Sun^1,*, Suzanne McIntosh¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.57, No.1, pp. 1-9, 2018, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2018.03684

Abstract The majority of big data analytics applied to transportation datasets suffer from being too domain-specific, that is, they draw conclusions for a dataset based on analytics on the same dataset. This makes models trained from one domain (e.g. taxi data) applies badly to a different domain (e.g. Uber data). To achieve accurate analyses on a new domain, substantial amounts of data must be available, which limits practical applications. To remedy this, we propose to use semi-supervised and active learning of big data to accomplish the domain adaptation task: Selectively choosing a small amount of datapoints… More >