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2005 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Active Learning for Probability Estimation Using Jensen-Shannon Divergence
Authors : Prem Melville, Stewart M. Yang, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky, Raymond Mooney
Published in: Machine Learning: ECML 2005
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Active selection of good training examples is an important approach to reducing data-collection costs in machine learning; however, most existing methods focus on maximizing classification accuracy. In many applications, such as those with unequal misclassification costs, producing good class probability estimates (CPEs) is more important than optimizing classification accuracy. We introduce novel approaches to active learning based on the algorithms Bootstrap-LV and
ActiveDecorate
, by using Jensen-Shannon divergence (a similarity measure for probability distributions) to improve sample selection for optimizing CPEs. Comprehensive experimental results demonstrate the benefits of our approaches.