Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Active learning strategies with scikit-learn

2013-10-04 Thread Josh Wasserstein
Thank you all for the pointers. This gives me a great place to start. I will let you know if I find anything that is useful sharing with the list. Josh On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Emanuele Olivetti wrote: > Hi Josh, > > Some years ago I used to work on a similar problem, i.e. to decide whi

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Active learning strategies with scikit-learn

2013-10-04 Thread Emanuele Olivetti
Hi Josh, Some years ago I used to work on a similar problem, i.e. to decide which attributes of which instances should be measured in order to reach a given goal (in our case: to learn which features were important and which ones were not, with respect to class labels). Note that this formul

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Active learning strategies with scikit-learn

2013-10-04 Thread Byron
This sounds a bit like *active class selection* rather than traditional active learning. See this paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1421731. You might also try the active learning mailing list: [email protected]. Best, -Byron On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Josh Wasser

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Active learning strategies with scikit-learn

2013-10-04 Thread Olivier Grisel
2013/10/3 Josh Wasserstein : > Hello, > > I work in a classification problem where each instance has several > attributes (e.g. the age of an individual). However, collecting instances > (either labeled or unlabeled) is very expensive, since it requires asking > domain experts to spend a significan

[Scikit-learn-general] Active learning strategies with scikit-learn

2013-10-03 Thread Josh Wasserstein
Hello, I work in a classification problem where each instance has several attributes (e.g. the age of an individual). However, collecting instances (either labeled or unlabeled) is very expensive, since it requires asking domain experts to spend a significant amount of time to simply collect the i