用真实众包标注数据评估主动学习算法,揭示其在错误与拒答场景下的表现。
An Analysis of Active Learning Algorithms using Real-World Crowd-sourced Text Annotations
- 基于众包平台收集真实文本标注,模拟现实中的标注噪声与拒答问题。
- 对比8种主流主动学习方法在真实标注数据上的性能,发现多数方法鲁棒性不足。
- 为部署深度主动学习系统提供实证参考,适合关注实际应用的开发者。
主动学习算法可自动筛选大量无标签数据中最具信息量的样本,显著降低机器学习模型训练所需的人工标注工作量。传统主动学习假设标注者完全可靠,即对查询样本始终给出正确类别标签,但在真实应用中这一假设难以成立。为此,已有研究致力于处理标注不完美或存在噪声的情况,但多数研究通过机器学习模型模拟标注行为,难以准确反映真实众包标注的复杂性。本文通过众包平台获取3个基准文本分类数据集的真实文本标注,并对8种常用主动学习技术(结合深度神经网络)进行大规模实证研究。分析结果揭示了这些方法在标注错误和拒答等现实挑战下的表现差异。本研究为深度主动学习系统在真实场景中的部署提供了宝贵洞见,所获标注数据可在 https://github.com/varuntotakura/al_rcta/ 公开获取。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Active learning algorithms automatically identify the most informative samples from large amounts of unlabeled data and tremendously reduce human annotation effort in inducing a machine learning model. In a conventional active learning setup, the labeling oracles are assumed to be infallible, that is, they always provide correct answers (in terms of class labels) to the queried unlabeled instances, which cannot be guaranteed in real-world applications. To this end, a body of research has focused on the development of active learning algorithms in the presence of imperfect / noisy oracles. Existing research on active learning with noisy oracles typically simulate the oracles using machine learning models; however, real-world situations are much more challenging, and using ML models to simulate the annotation patterns may not appropriately capture the nuances of real-world annotation challenges. In this research, we first collect annotations of text samples (from 3 benchmark text classification datasets) from crowd-sourced workers through a crowd-sourcing platform. We then conduct extensive empirical studies of 8 commonly used active learning techniques (in conjunction with deep neural networks) using the obtained annotations. Our analyses sheds light on the performance of these techniques under real-world challenges, where annotators can provide incorrect labels, and can also refuse to provide labels. We hope this research will provide valuable insights that will be useful for the deployment of deep active learning systems in real-world applications. The obtained annotations can be accessed at https://github.com/varuntotakura/al_rcta/.
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