Abstract:The central goal of active learning is to gather data that maximises downstream predictive performance, but popular approaches have limited flexibility in customising this data acquisition to different downstream problems and losses. We propose a rigorous loss-driven approach to Bayesian active learning that allows data acquisition to directly target the loss associated with a given decision problem. In particular, we show how any loss can be used to derive a unique objective for optimal data acquisition. Critically, we then show that any loss taking the form of a weighted Bregman divergence permits analytic computation of a central component of its corresponding objective, making the approach applicable in practice. In regression and classification experiments with a range of different losses, we find our approach reduces test losses relative to existing techniques.
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2604.11995 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2604.11995v2 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.11995 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite |
From: Zhuoyue Huang [view email]
[v1]
Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:36:03 UTC (2,171 KB)
[v2]
Fri, 8 May 2026 04:18:18 UTC (2,159 KB)
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