In plain words: libact is a free Python toolkit for active learning, where a program picks which unlabeled items a human should label next so it learns faster. It can also choose the best picking strategy automatically, instead of making you pick one by hand.
Abstract · libact: Pool-based Active Learning in Python
libact is a Python package designed to make active learning easier for general users. The package not only implements several popular active learning strategies, but also features the active-learning-by-learning meta-algorithm that assists the users to automatically select the best strategy on the fly. Furthermore, the package provides a unified interface for implementing more strategies, models and application-specific labelers. The package is open-source on Github, and can be easily installed from Python Package Index repository.
Yao-Yuan Yang, Shao-Chuan Lee, Yu-An Chung, Tung-En Wu, Si-An Chen, Hsuan-Tien Lin
arXiv:1710.00379 · cs.LG · submitted Oct 1, 2017
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