Active Learning (Machine Learning) - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org  ## Metadata - Author: **en.wikipedia.org** - Full Title: Active Learning (Machine Learning) - Wikipedia - Category: #articles - URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_learning_(machine_learning) ## Highlights - Active learning is a special case of machine learning in which a learning algorithm can interactively query a user (or some other information source) to label new data points with the desired outputs.[1][2][3] In statistics literature, it is sometimes also called optimal experimental design.[4] The information source is also called teacher or oracle. There are situations in which unlabeled data is abundant but manual labeling is expensive. In such a scenario, learning algorithms can actively query the user/teacher for labels. This type of iterative supervised learning is called active learning. Since the learner chooses the examples, the number of examples to learn a concept can often be much lower than the number required in normal supervised learning. With this approach, there is a risk that the algorithm is overwhelmed by uninformative examples. Recent developments are dedicated to multi-label active learning,[5] hybrid active learning[6] and active learning in a single-pass (on-line) context,[7] combining concepts from the field of machine learning (e.g. conflict and ignorance) with adaptive, incremental learning policies in the field of online machine learning.