Chapter 22

Active Learning: A Survey

Charu C. Aggarwal

IBM T. J. Watson Research CenterYorktown Heights, NY charu@us.ibm.com

Xiangnan Kong

University of Illinois at ChicagoChicago, IL xkong4@uic.edu

Quanquan Gu

University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbana, IL qgu3@illinois.edu

Jiawei Han

University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbana, IL hanj@illinois.edu

Philip S. Yu

University of Illinois at ChicagoChicago, IL psyu@uic.edu

22.1 Introduction

One of the great challenges in a wide variety of learning problems is the ability to obtain sufficient labeled data for modeling purposes. Labeled data is often expensive to obtain, and frequently requires laborious human effort. In many domains, unlabeled data is copious, though labels can be attached ...

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