Active Learning for Finding a Needle in a Haystack

arXiv:2610.15165 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-10 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-10

Updated: 2026-10-10

Code: https://github.com/dsgissin/DiscriminativeActiveLearning

Terminology

• Active Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

Sources

• A Unifying Framework for Robust and Efficient Inference with Unstructured Data
• Deep Active Learning over the Long Tail
• Discriminative Active Learning
• Bayesian Active Learning for Classification and Preference Learning
• A Sequential Algorithm for Training Text Classifiers
• RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
• DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter

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