Active Learning with Local Models

  • Authors:
  • Martina Hasenjäger;Helge Ritter

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Bielefeld, Technische Fakultät, Postfach 10 01 31, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany;Universität Bielefeld, Technische Fakultät, Postfach 10 01 31, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Neural Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

In this contribution, we deal with active learning, which gives thelearner the power to select training samples. We propose a novel queryalgorithm for local learning models, a class of learners that has notbeen considered in the context of active learning until now. Our queryalgorithm is based on the idea of selecting a query on the borderlineof the actual classification. This is done by drawing on thegeometrical properties of local models that typically induce a Voronoitessellation on the input space, so that the Voronoi vertices of thistessellation offer themselves as prospective query points. Theperformance of the new query algorithm is tested on the two-spiralsproblem with promising results.