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20222026
most citedDADO -- Low-Cost Query Strategies for Deep Active Design Optimization

5 citations · 13 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2026

BioDCASE: Active Learning for Bioacoustics

Ben McEwen, Rupa Kurinchi-Vendhan, Shiqi Zhang +3

Ecological monitoring increasingly relies on machine learning models, whose performance depends on the quality and quantity of labelled data. However, obtaining these labels is cos…

cs.LG2025

Cleaning the Pool: Progressive Filtering of Unlabeled Pools in Deep Active Learning

Denis Huseljic, Marek Herde, Lukas Rauch +2

Existing active learning (AL) strategies capture fundamentally different notions of data value, e.g., uncertainty or representativeness. Consequently, the effectiveness of strategi…

cs.SD2025

Unmute the Patch Tokens: Rethinking Probing in Multi-Label Audio Classification

Lukas Rauch, René Heinrich, Houtan Ghaffari +4

Although probing frozen models has become a standard evaluation paradigm, self-supervised learning in audio defaults to fine-tuning when pursuing state-of-the-art on AudioSet. A ke…

cs.LG2025

Hashing-Baseline: Rethinking Hashing in the Age of Pretrained Models

Ilyass Moummad, Kawtar Zaher, Lukas Rauch +1

Information retrieval with compact binary embeddings, also referred to as hashing, is crucial for scalable fast search applications, yet state-of-the-art hashing methods require ex…

cs.LG2025

Adversarial Training Improves Generalization Under Distribution Shifts in Bird Sound Classification

René Heinrich, Lukas Rauch, Raphael Schwinger +4

Adversarial training is a promising strategy for enhancing robustness against adversarial attacks, but its impact on generalization under substantial distribution shifts in audio c…

cs.CL2025

No Free Lunch in Active Learning: LLM Embedding Quality Dictates Query Strategy Success

Lukas Rauch, Moritz Wirth, Denis Huseljic +3

The advent of large language models (LLMs) capable of producing general-purpose representations lets us revisit the practicality of deep active learning (AL): By leveraging frozen…

cs.LG2025

Can Masked Autoencoders Also Listen to Birds?

Lukas Rauch, René Heinrich, Ilyass Moummad +3

Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) learn rich semantic representations in audio classification through an efficient self-supervised reconstruction task. However, general-purpose models fai…

cs.CV2024

dopanim: A Dataset of Doppelganger Animals with Noisy Annotations from Multiple Humans

Marek Herde, Denis Huseljic, Lukas Rauch +1

Human annotators typically provide annotated data for training machine learning models, such as neural networks. Yet, human annotations are subject to noise, impairing generalizati…

cs.SD2024★ 1 cited

Towards Deep Active Learning in Avian Bioacoustics

Lukas Rauch, Denis Huseljic, Moritz Wirth +3

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) in avian bioacoustics enables cost-effective and extensive data collection with minimal disruption to natural habitats. Despite advancements in co…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Fast Fishing: Approximating BAIT for Efficient and Scalable Deep Active Image Classification

Denis Huseljic, Paul Hahn, Marek Herde +2

Deep active learning (AL) seeks to minimize the annotation costs for training deep neural networks. BAIT, a recently proposed AL strategy based on the Fisher Information, has demon…

cs.SD2024★ 4 cited

BirdSet: A Large-Scale Dataset for Audio Classification in Avian Bioacoustics

Lukas Rauch, Raphael Schwinger, Moritz Wirth +8

Deep learning (DL) has greatly advanced audio classification, yet the field is limited by the scarcity of large-scale benchmark datasets that have propelled progress in other domai…

cs.SD2023★ 2 cited

Active Bird2Vec: Towards End-to-End Bird Sound Monitoring with Transformers

Lukas Rauch, Raphael Schwinger, Moritz Wirth +3

We propose a shift towards end-to-end learning in bird sound monitoring by combining self-supervised (SSL) and deep active learning (DAL). Leveraging transformer models, we aim to…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

DADO -- Low-Cost Query Strategies for Deep Active Design Optimization

Jens Decke, Christian Gruhl, Lukas Rauch +1

In this experience report, we apply deep active learning to the field of design optimization to reduce the number of computationally expensive numerical simulations. We are interes…

cs.LG2023

ActiveGLAE: A Benchmark for Deep Active Learning with Transformers

Lukas Rauch, Matthias Aßenmacher, Denis Huseljic +3

Deep active learning (DAL) seeks to reduce annotation costs by enabling the model to actively query instance annotations from which it expects to learn the most. Despite extensive…

cs.LG2022

Efficient Bayesian Updates for Deep Active Learning via Laplace Approximations

Denis Huseljic, Marek Herde, Lukas Rauch +5

Deep active learning (AL) selects batches of instances for annotation to avoid retraining deep neural networks (DNNs) after each new label. Employing a naive top- selection can…